Archive for March, 2008

Son of Mr. Show »

Bob Odenkirk and David Cross are returning to HBO. [link]
The downside is that it won’t be to revive Mr. Show. The upside is that while they’ll be doing a conventional sitcom-style comedy program, it will be interspersed with fake commercials, in a nod to their past.
You can read all about it in the link above. [...]

5 Reasons the Web Design Client isn’t always right »

Personally, I feel that there’s no reason to stick to any policy or concept dogmatically, but there’s one concept out there in business that’s always really rubbed me the wrong way, and that’s the old barb about the customer always being right.
The actual concept being conveyed by this missive is that the customer can always [...]

JP Morgan Chase buys collapsing Bear Stearns »

Yes, that’s right. Bear Stearns collapsed. Here’s their 5-year stock chart: [link]
And today that graph will go from $30/share to $2. The Fed this weekend, along with an additional quarter-point drop in the discount rate, agreed to fund Bear Stearns financial liabilities to the tune of $30 billion dollars at the same time JP Morgan [...]

Step DOWN, Jimmy. »

Yet ANOTHER scandal hits Wikipedia, as former Novell Chief Scientist Jeff Merkey alleges that James “Jimbo” Wales, the co-founder of the online encyclopedia “anyone can edit” approached him with a proposal bordering on blackmail: the offer was to nullify Wikipedia’s existing, and largely negative article on Merkey, and replace it with one favoring him, in [...]

Fallon out, Iran on? »

Admiral William Fallon, commander of the United States Central Command, has resigned effective March 31st. [link]
His resignation comes after a recent Esquire magazine article about his disagreements with the Bush Administration over intervention in Iran. Fallon had long been known as being his own man, and was widely seen as having stood up to Bush [...]