This is so cool!
It's a better version than the iphone "optimized" site. And light years better than the generic mobile site. But my fav is still Facebook Lite: it's the most functional way to access Facebook on my G1.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Starbucks: VIA Ready Brew is a stupid idea
I know the economy is going badly and Starbucks is scrambling for cash, but degrading their premium brand is probably not going to end well.
For the press release disguised as a news article version, see:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33092510/ns/business-businessweekcom/
It's funny as all heck to be ding by Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574447070743132740.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
What product did he point to as the canary in the coffee mine? Instant coffee. Mr. Wu [Former Director of R&D for Starbucks] called it "a product of last resort."
This week Starbucks gave the full nationwide rollout to its new line of instant coffee.
and also,
Which doesn't mean Starbucks instant coffee tastes bad. It's very good, as far as instant coffee goes, and not terrible when compared with a regular cup of brewed coffee. Just drink it fast, while it's super hot. Warmish Via has a slightly pasty quality.
Adweek hits the nail on the head:
the question remains whether this is a solution in search of a non-existent problem. If the consumers now willing to pay more at both the store and in the aisle for Starbucks don't want an instant, that leaves Via to Nescafe and Sanka users. It's difficult to imagine that most folks now using the big instant brands at a fraction of Via's price will suddenly be willing to spend far more for a taste they haven't felt the need to pay for before, particularly in the current economic climate.
Sunday, October 04, 2009
Disaster and jazz
Small Mercy
People are giving out rations of small sausages, cocoa, and blankets.
And they had a small jazz band.
Take Shelter, 2009
Audience is encouraged to build shelters with cardboard boxes and to donate or take can goods.
Nurses (not really) at Nuit Blanch
At the distillery right now, I am not sure what this is about. Hot nurses. Of both genders.
Saturday, October 03, 2009
waste: This be close reading
This line, which begins Larkin's poem, "This Be the Verse", so forcefully, has long been a puzzlement to scholars, who have debated amongst themselves since its publication what the meaning of "fuck you up" might be. I believe that the key to understanding the line, which recapitulated and varied in the other quatrains (thus giving the poem the structure of a partially-deranged sonata), lies in the preposition, "up".
This is why Textual Analysis should be banned.
Moon Festival
It's the moon festival today. This is the aftermath of many, hungry members of my family. These are their spawns.
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