December 2008
12 posts
Ford was taken to task in some quarters for rolling out a redesigned Ford F-150 pickup. Yet even in this slumping, truck-averse market, the F-150 remained America’s best-selling car or truck, as it’s been for 27 years. Calling it quits would make as much sense as Apple pulling the plug on the iPod. (Today’s NY Times)
This is a great example why Apple is flying and auto companies are...
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“Forrest Gump was the anti Christ. Everything good in his life, everything, came...”
– PocketNinja on Fark
Maclean’s, the home of the piss-you-off cover story, has a good day-by-day walk-through of the constitutional crisis.
However, the big question isn’t answered: what did GG Michaëlle Jean and Stephen Harper talk about for 2 1/2 hours?
It is somewhat comforting to know that Jean used scholar Peter Hogg to work through the issue. Jean chose the right door but it’s nice to...
Thomas Friedman in the NYT referring to the slowly-expanding electric car network, Better Place, in Denmark, Israel, and Hawaii.
Our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of dollars of taxpayer money into the mail-order-catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay. It will be remembered as pouring billions of dollars into the CD music business on the...
Free SMS texts to US mobiles through Gmail. Click on Settings > Labs > SMS to turn it on. Then you can use the chat box to type in the number and send your text. You can only receive them in the US (so far) but everyone can send.
Masthead magazine has become the Fucked Company of print.
Ryan Bigge did his master’s thesis on Vice Magazine. Later, he wrote this article for an audience of publishers at Masthead about Vice’s business technique. Two examples:
* Always Stay in Character. Vice began as free monthly newsprint (Voice of Montreal) in 1994 (renaming itself Vice in the fall of 1996) and went glossy in October of 1998. Soon after, it moved HQ from Montreal to...
People often say that Detroit (and Windsor) can’t or won’t make fuel-efficient small cars. One writer said that, at 25 miles per gallon, Ford original Model-T was more fuel efficient than most of its fleet today.
Yet, when I look around the streets of London, there are hundreds of small, efficient cars like the Ka and the Fiesta (from Ford) and various Vauxhalls (the local name for...