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Thursday, August 21, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Pedal Pedagogical Advertising
What?
These guys are infiltrating our college bookstores with advertisements at our feet. Ya hear that?
College kids, called the millenials, technorati, or the future, have become too adept for marketers and advertisers. They've realized that we're tired of print and billboards. So now they're putting extremely targeted ads on tv screens at our feet.
How focused? This "infotainment" can be moved around the store, and placed in certain aisles for promotion of certain products. Bizarre.
Keep ya head up kids,
The advertisers are after you even when you're sulking about book prices.
-Winn
These guys are infiltrating our college bookstores with advertisements at our feet. Ya hear that?
College kids, called the millenials, technorati, or the future, have become too adept for marketers and advertisers. They've realized that we're tired of print and billboards. So now they're putting extremely targeted ads on tv screens at our feet.
How focused? This "infotainment" can be moved around the store, and placed in certain aisles for promotion of certain products. Bizarre.
Keep ya head up kids,
The advertisers are after you even when you're sulking about book prices.
-Winn
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Textbook Scramble
It's mid August. I've already received the first email from the do-well professor giving me a heads up on what textbooks to buy. And, at a whopping $60 for the class, I'm cowering. Scoff at me if you will Chemistry majors who drop $500/semester, $60 is a new pair of shoes, a tank of gas, 25 pounds of ground beef, an army's feeding at Wendys, or multiple rounds at the bar.
Chegg.com is a textbook rental company. I've seen rates as low as $18/semester, and they even plant a tree for every book rented. Sometimes I like to keep my textbooks for future reference. But if you're in that 100-level abstract theology class, Chegg is definitely for you.
Also check out BookFinder.com They scour the internetz for the cheapest prices on books.
Tuesday's are for business,
Winn
Track of the day?
Chegg.com is a textbook rental company. I've seen rates as low as $18/semester, and they even plant a tree for every book rented. Sometimes I like to keep my textbooks for future reference. But if you're in that 100-level abstract theology class, Chegg is definitely for you.
Also check out BookFinder.com They scour the internetz for the cheapest prices on books.
Tuesday's are for business,
Winn
Track of the day?
Friday, June 13, 2008
Yael Naim, Steve Jobs, and Cardiac Arrest team up
This just in!
What happens when you bring an iPod, pacemaker, treadmill, and old person together? Death. Science says it's due to interference in the pacemaker caused by the iPod. This one wasn't figured out since, apparently, nobody with a pacemaker has ever exercised and used an iPod.
What's really behind the scenes? In an effort to kill off non-apple users (the elderly), Steve Jobs put geriatric kryptonite (pacemaker jamming magic) into his products. It's so blatant. "New Soul" is their campaign song? Put that man behind bars.
What happens when you bring an iPod, pacemaker, treadmill, and old person together? Death. Science says it's due to interference in the pacemaker caused by the iPod. This one wasn't figured out since, apparently, nobody with a pacemaker has ever exercised and used an iPod.
What's really behind the scenes? In an effort to kill off non-apple users (the elderly), Steve Jobs put geriatric kryptonite (pacemaker jamming magic) into his products. It's so blatant. "New Soul" is their campaign song? Put that man behind bars.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
"My brain must be smaller than... a really small thing, bro."
According to a study of some kind, chronic use of marijuana makes certain parts of your brain smaller.
I saw this get a lot of play on the news, blogs, and the internetz in general, and I want to take a moment to point out some of the flaws in studies like these:
1) It was done in Australia. Australia, in case you forgot, was originally a prison colony. Prisoners can't do anything because they are bad people. Also, marsupials. The last marsupial I saw had drowned itself in a Koi pond, or else had been assassinated by another, probably larger/more cunning, marsupial, who callously dumped its body in a Koi pond. I'm just putting some stuff out there. Possums.
2) The study was done on like 15 people. That's not enough people to do a study, and barely enough people for a Halo 3 tournament.
3) The parts of the brain that were affected were memory/emotion? Whattaya need those for, anyway? I really want to know. E-mail me.
I saw this get a lot of play on the news, blogs, and the internetz in general, and I want to take a moment to point out some of the flaws in studies like these:
1) It was done in Australia. Australia, in case you forgot, was originally a prison colony. Prisoners can't do anything because they are bad people. Also, marsupials. The last marsupial I saw had drowned itself in a Koi pond, or else had been assassinated by another, probably larger/more cunning, marsupial, who callously dumped its body in a Koi pond. I'm just putting some stuff out there. Possums.
2) The study was done on like 15 people. That's not enough people to do a study, and barely enough people for a Halo 3 tournament.
3) The parts of the brain that were affected were memory/emotion? Whattaya need those for, anyway? I really want to know. E-mail me.
I'm higher than ever
Rejoice, fellows-
Weed is new AND improved!
That's right, for the five thousandth year in a row, marijuana got better and more potent last year. In fact, it's at a record level- for that year.
That's the problem with records, really- they break. Get some cds, folks.
Drug Czar John Walters had this to say:
"Marijuana potency has grown steeply over the past decade, with serious implications in particular for young people."
Those implications include getting higher, eating more food, and turning off the lights while listening to "Dark Side of the Moon."
Kudos to you, intrepid marijuana growers of the world. You've really got this inflation thing down.
Weed is new AND improved!
That's right, for the five thousandth year in a row, marijuana got better and more potent last year. In fact, it's at a record level- for that year.
That's the problem with records, really- they break. Get some cds, folks.
Drug Czar John Walters had this to say:
"Marijuana potency has grown steeply over the past decade, with serious implications in particular for young people."
Those implications include getting higher, eating more food, and turning off the lights while listening to "Dark Side of the Moon."
Kudos to you, intrepid marijuana growers of the world. You've really got this inflation thing down.
Cops say, "OMFG this is AWESOME."
In a place nobody can find on the maps, some cops found so much hash that they had to blow it up...with fighter jets.
Check this shit out: Hash Catastrophe
First thing I think- How much hash do you need to find to bomb it? Sure, 237 tons is a lot of hash, but what if it were only a hundred tons?
We'll let you off with a warning this time, Abdul.
Afghanistan Fun Fact:
Afghanistan is only responsible for 90% of the world's opium production. Come on guys, you can do better than that.
Check this shit out: Hash Catastrophe
First thing I think- How much hash do you need to find to bomb it? Sure, 237 tons is a lot of hash, but what if it were only a hundred tons?
We'll let you off with a warning this time, Abdul.
Afghanistan Fun Fact:
Afghanistan is only responsible for 90% of the world's opium production. Come on guys, you can do better than that.
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