Okay, first of all, Minnie15, dogs do not have “boobs”. They have “cans”, and if they are male dogs, they have “titties”, and if they are Latin cartoon dogs, they have “tetas”.
Second of all, I forgot your question.
Some foreign companies flatter me by borrowing my ideas to sell their products.
- Top row: Robert Andersen (the design guru at Square) texted me this animated GIF last night, with a Japanese guy being cheeky just like my friend Jason did in the Square video. Upon further inspection, it was the work of some shitbags at Paygate, a Square ripoff, who even went to the trouble of taking my music and doing what we call in the industry a “stinky pinky”. Click through to their version of me and Jason. It’s striking and very Japanese. The sound effects kill me.
- Middle row: The day before, Twitter user @mishalkp shared (in a pretty clever way) the brazen artistry of some buttfaces at Nokia, who have introduced their JAMBOX competitor with a video so stealtastic I can’t believe it came from a Fortune 500 company.
- Bottom row: This one is a twofer. The shot depicted is a tasteful homage to my Flipboard video, in something made by some pissfuckers at a horrible, horrible company called Wimdu who wholesale cloned Airbnb’s business model and for good measure, whole chunks of dialogue from our video. Good job, Samver brothers, you champions of the entrepreneurial spirit!
No, but I have fun. I love these guys.
This is Sox. He is the enormously talented UX Director at Vimeo. I love following Sox on Tumblr. I think you might, too.
RCA
She was a dependable cable, the RCA or phono connector. Been around since the 1940s, with her stout, sturdy pin you knew wasn’t going anywhere. You could trust her with your tapes and CDs and video games if that was your thing.
I just pulled out the last of my RCA cables. Now I’m left with a box of them—a quarter-mile of left, right, red, green and blue in six-foot segments, each with its own unique personality. This one’s for the record player. This one was for the cable box and these ones looked great with the SNES.
But I’m all HDMI now. Feels good, too. Feels right.
No touching
Do movie watchers of the future get to study a film over and over like we used to, now that the artifact of the collectible movie has gone away and almost all movies are easily accessed?
Time was, a movie was a physical object, there was scarcity and a built-in obligation to extract as much value as possible. So we’d watch them over and over again, and we’d learn about movies.
Everything I know about movies, I learned from Kentucky Fried Movie, Beetlejuice, and The Shining.
Body Swappin’
Easily the stupidest 38 minutes I’ve ever spent on a computer.
Apple Rocks Way Cool!
My sister found a textbook in New Zealand called Apple: Business in Action, published in 1997 (a very strange time in Apple’s history, with section headings like “Apple on the Decline”), so she sent it to my dad, who would get a kick out of it. Reading it brought back such an ugly nostalgia for what I think of as Apple’s puberty, which coincided with my own.
Worth noting: people who work at Apple think a Teva makes a suitable skateboarding shoe because they see the world just a little bit different from me and you.
Flickr, you just keep bein’ you.