Sarah Marshall is evil

25 Mar 2008 – 7:09
By adam | Also posted in geekery | Comments (0)

Chicago’s been overrun with the faux-ARG billboards about Sarah Marshall, which point to the faux-blog for one of the characters. From there, you’ll land on the site for the trailer:

The most shocking thing is that they’re not kidding: they’re actually validating against your driver’s license or something close to it. For sites that don’t [...]

Free Speech for the dumb

7 Sep 2007 – 10:52
By adam | Comments (11)

There’s been a lot said about Turkey’s wholesale blocking of wordpress.com, because of a few possibly libelous blogs hosted there. It doesn’t interest me much, because unless the state-owned ISP and firewall is dismantled, there’s not going to be free speech anytime soon.  Not to mention, I can’t read turkish, and thereby determine [...]

Mass customization comes to philanthropy

31 Jul 2007 – 7:37
By adam | Comments (1)

I’m kind of behind the pack on this, I only saw the ad for american express’ members project yesterday, and the final round of voting closes on the 5th. It’s a brilliant marketing maneuver from american express, as far as making people feel like there’s actually some point to choosing one pre-approved-gold-card-mass-mailing over another. [...]

More Jesus in the Dashboard

15 Jul 2007 – 8:36
By adam | Also posted in Asides, blogging | Comments (6)

via Matt, I’m again subjected to religious blathering in my wordpress install. In the interest of disclosure, I am agnostic. I find the discussion of origin myths, god, or the afterlife to be primitive and irrelevant.
One of the benefits of using open source software is supposed to be the freedom to modify it to meet [...]

SiCKO

16 Jun 2007 – 7:16
By adam | Comments (9)

Michael Moore’s health care film that he’s been working on at least since i saw him speak at UW Madison 2 years ago is finally coming out.

on his site, he also has a proposal for american health care:

Every American must have full, uninterrupted health care coverage for life.
Private, for-profit health insurance companies must be abolished.
Profits [...]