Posts Tagged ‘truth

While this post is aimed at Web performance, the curse of the single metric affects our everyday lives in ways that we have become oblivious to.
When you listen to a business report, the stock market indices are an aggregated metric used to represent the performance of a set group of stocks.
When you read about economic indicators, [...]

Kevin Tillman, the brother of the late Pat Tillman, has written an essay that will make it hard for anyone to justify Iraq.
How can the Rumsfeld, Rice, Cheney, Rove, and Bush argue their way out of this essay?
Remember, the Gettysburg Address took less than 2 minutes to deliver.
Pass it on.

His comrades fought beside him, Van Owen and the restBut of all the Thompson gunners, Roland was the bestSo the CIA decided they wanted Roland deadThat son of a bitch Van Owen blew off Roland’s head
There is always something something soothing in the words of Warren Zevon, even when they describe the wandering ghost of [...]

The Truth Police

In: smp

12 Sep 2005

Heh.

Count on SkyNews to bring you an unintended laugh.
Via: Fred Wilson
Then do the following:
Turns out that if you type “failure” into Google and hit “I feel lucky” you’ll get the official biography of, well, I don’t want to ruin the suprise.
Heh!
Via: Scoble

Ain’t it the truth?

In: smp

24 Jul 2005

Via GapingVoid
Been there; have the scars.

Hey Karl, can you spin this?
If you are the CEO and your underling might have committed a serious crime… would you ask them? Either Rove told Bush the truth and Bush doesn’t care, Rove lied to the President and the President can forgive him, or the President doesn’t care and hasn’t asked. None of those [...]

This post has been slanted by an article I read today about Yankee Group analyst Laura Didio (hmmm…no bio on the site), and an encounter I had today with a real industry analyst. [James Governor points to this article as well.]
Ms. Didio has been accused of placing a very hard slant towards Microsoft in most [...]

As soon as the characters started speaking in this vicious and detailed bit of parody, I knew it was Canadian. [here, 32mb MP4]
And sure enough, Avion Films is a Canadian ad agency.
I miss my home country.
care of Site-9.

Hence the need to target those frivolous Asbestos Lawsuits…
W.R. Grace indicted over asbestos claims.
I mentioned this a while back…some people close to The Obsfucator are tied to this asbestos thing.
I have no sympathy for the asbestos industry. A high-school friend of mine lost his father due to a one-time, one-day exposure to asbestos 30 years [...]

Open Note to Seth Godin

In: smp

1 Feb 2005

Seth:
Typical notes about how we don’t know each other, blah, blah, blah.
On point, your comment on the PC. You said:
I had to use a PC today in order to run Exact Target to do a mailing. I was stunned and astonished at how much the experience has degraded since my last exposure.
I know what you [...]


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