Twelve years and 364 days ago was the best day I’d had in my life.
The Amish crime beat is a strange place.
From the Everything You Know Is Wrong, Iconic Scientific Images department.
I don’t know about you, but if I were a kid, I would not call this a treat.
“Re-shoring” may be the new business buzzword.
The Republican war against women continues apace. And this is the price some women will pay for it.
A brief history of corporate whining. Not a recent cartoon, but quite a timely one nonetheless.
This is the most anti-environment Congress ever.
Happy one year anniversary to NewsTaco.
The not so shiny side of Steve Jobs.
A big parcel of land with convenient access to transit is quite a valuable thing.
Dissing the Nobel Prize in economics.
Dear banksters: This is why people hate you.
The worst contracts in baseball. May be painful to read, depending on your rooting interest.
By Erick Erickson’s definition, I have at least six jobs.
When is a “scandal” not actually a scandal?
Some truth in headline writing would go a long way towards improving our stupid discourse.
You tell ’em, Ray LaHood.
Stay classy, Operation Rescue.
Who cares about dental health, anyway?
thanks for the bday wishes! 😀
re Steve Jobs: note also that in 1987 Jobs was a failure who not only was fired from the company he co-founded, but deserved to be fired. Yes, he introduced the Macintosh, but his esthetic of closed-box, underpowered, non-upgradable, overpriced devices led to one fiasco after another, beginning with the Apple III. Even the Macintosh as introduced was nearly useless; it was not until the Mac Plus several years later that a serviceable work computer came out, and the open-architecture Macs that could only be introduced after he left that they became true business power machines. In the meantime, he created internal conflict with “competing” Macintosh and Apple II divisions (highly unequal competition of course, as the Mac division got all the R&D funds), and so took one of the industry’s most popular computers (Apple II at one point sold 25% of all computers, and more than 50% in schools) and reduced it to an afterthought, even as it was creating the company alive. The dysfunctional company culture unfortunately survived his departure.
The irony was that in 1997 it was not Steve Jobs’ approach that had changed, but the underlying technology. So much more power was available in small packages by that time that his closed-architecture esthetic could actually produce workable devices (save for the Mac Cube), and the esthetic qualities that he and Jonathan Ives brought subsequently brought a retail revolution that his competitors still haven’t figured out.