Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
There’s something terribly ironic, or maybe tragically ironic, about the Congressional action on the Fed bailout plan in Congress today. Speaker Pelosi says she won’t bring it to a vote in the House without at least 100 Republicans assured to vote for the plan, even though she could bring it to the floor and overwhelmingly [...]
I actually like the new ads that Microsoft is running that poke fun at Apple’s “I’m a Mac” campaign (which is getting a little long in the tooth, even if still amusing). However, learning that the production images used in the new Microsoft campaign were created on a Mac is the kind of priceless irony [...]
The television show Deal or No Deal factors heavily in the Federal bailout plan for the financial services industry after news leaked that the silhouetted banker on the television show Deal or No Deal had become the latest victim in the subprime mortgage crisis. Yes it is parody and satire, which is all we are [...]
I particularly liked this part of the President’s speech last night. “To sustain this shining city on a hill,” Mr. Bush said, “we need to rescue the ignorant, irresponsible folks — from Wall Street to Capitol Hill to Main Street — who got us to where we are today. We must guarantee that no American [...]
Just like the hands free cellphone law… it will fail because of massive civil disobedience and enforceability. But here’s the thing that really pisses me off, practically every police, sheriff, and CHP car I see driving around features an officer yakking away on a cellphone stuck to his/her ear. When the people who are telling [...]
When I first read that this guy canceled his GT-R order my first reaction was to wonder if he was taking delivery (no) and then to think he must be a real narcissistic dumbass. However, you really have to read the article to see the gist of his argument, which is that Nissan is applying [...]