I’m enjoying an amazing dinner with my wife - and the restaurant has Chimay White on tap - life is great!
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Vitamin Features » Create cross browser vector graphics
I can tell you that I work with a designer that has been pineing away for SVG support in the browser for years (Hi Brett!). I can already tell that as this sort of tech solidifies I’m going to end up knee deep in graphical representations - but at least it will all be programatic :)
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility: News Releases
In order to avoid offending religious fundamentalists, our National Park Service is under orders to suspend its belief in geology,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch. “It is disconcerting that the official position of a national park as to the geologic age of the Grand Canyon is ‘no comment.’”
How seattle :)
Dirk playing the air raid game at gameworks in seattle!
Why you can’t get iPods at a discount. - By Sean Cooper - Slate Magazine
Apple has done this forever - or at least as long as I’ve bought Apple products which dates back to the 90s. Back in the day the only way to get a deal on a mac was to be a college student and buy it through your University.
If Apple resellers dropped prices on iPods and iMacs—selling at or below cost to get customers in the door, or as a way to cross-sell stuff like software or iPod skins—they could squeeze the Apple Stores out of their own markets.
It demonstrates a lot of market power that they can pursue this sort of strategy. I would love to know what the trade off is - I mean they earn additional profit from the higher prices - but how many people don’t end up buying because the price is too high. I guess we won’t really find out until Apple is in a situation where they stumble and they aren’t able to demand the premium. (Which if you go back in Apple history you wil see a lot of articles about the death of Apple related to this - basically they seem set on the strategy even when the going isn’t go good).
back in collete it didn’t seem as strange to me as it does now. I suppose because I’m one of the consumers they talk about that does a lot of comparison shopping before I make a big purchase. I’m used to finding a deal. On the Apple side, I end up resorting to the - coupon/Google Checkout kind of thing instead of actually expecting to get a better price on the item itself.
One thing that would be interesting to look it is what effect the price stability of Apple products has on their resale value. I would have to assume that since they keep prices high until they release a new unit - a referb or used ipod or laptop would fetch a higher price than say a Dell laptop - since they are constantly cutting their prices and effectively pushing the ceiling down for refurb unit prices.
A very special find in seattle - oude kriek - i’m in heaven
Apparently ben and jerry are breaking out of the reezer
Interesting. I put in my card and had to type in my zip. That seems like a very low barrier to auth me on the credit card. I wonder when I’ll see more of that at the check out. You can contrast that with the places like walgreens that dont even make you sign for less that $20.
Ok I’m sick - and my wife got me some Zicam this weekend. It really helped clear my sinuses so I could sleep. A friend at work pointed this article out - basically some people lose their sense of smell after use - very scary. I didn’t realize that it is an unregulated product - see the quote below.
Paying Through the Nose
Because Zicam contains a naturally occuring mineral — zinc — which is generally recognized as safe, and because it is labeled as a homeopathic remedy, it is exempt from the regulations governing safety testing and manufacturing that apply to many drugs.
“This is not an FDA-regulated product,” Zimmerman said.
