Last year, Ron Johnson left Apple as Senior Vice President of Retail Operations to become J.C. Penney’s (JCP) CEO. Before joining Apple, he was at Target. As Gruber points out today, “The Ron Johnson Era at JC Penney Has Begun.” Johnson took out a two-page ad in several major newspapers with the mission of turning JCP [...]
For the Nov. 7th Watch The Throne show at Madison Square Garden, Jay-Z & Kanye performed for a solid two and a half hours. No cameos, no breaks. With two rising light cube platforms, the two took turns throwing out bits from WTT and their own albums. This list of songs performed is not 100% [...]
Hollywood Reporter reveals that the 23rd Bond installment will be titled: Skyfall Director Sam Mendes indicated the movie would involve shooting at the following locations: London, Shanghai, Istanbul, Turkey, and Scotland As with any Bond film, I’ll be eager to see it in theaters once released. With the 007 franchise, you can love it or hate [...]
No. Via HN, Wikipedia states Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word ‘no’. If you think about it, this makes sense. Articles that could be answered by ‘yes’ choose to state the news in the headline rather than asking a fake question. Or as Wikipedia [...]
The elevator of success is out of service. So please take the stairs. That’s the great opening line from EggsTravaganza, a local NYC food cart, in the video below. I’m sure they didn’t come up with it, but it’s a great saying. This reminds me of Mark Cuban’s post about how he fought the good fight [...]
Hey Access Main Computer File, This is straight out of the future, but it’s here today. From a place you equate with the golden days of yesterday, the Waldorf Astoria has a nice video map in the lobby: This impressed me, because it’s 1.) helpful and 2.) something you would see in today’s video games.
You shouldn’t be surprised at the results of these two similar experiences: Scenario A A flickr user seeking critique, uploads a photograph (above) by Henri Cartier-Bresson, “father of modern photojournalism”. The criticism received was harsh and the photo got deleted from the DeleteMe! photo pool. Scenario B A world class violinist, Joshua Bell, plays music [...]
A great whodunit story has many possible suspects and nothing is what it seems. This real life murder mystery puts the government on trial after a secret affair is ended. Rosenberg had frequently expressed despair over the violence that consumed Guatemala. In 2007, a joint study by the United Nations and the World Bank ranked [...]