Lynne Kiesling As a Liverpool FC fan (or, more accurately, a Xabi Alonso fan), I have been watching the impending sale of the team with great interest. The back-and-forth over the holidays between the current owners and the Dubai investment club that had an offer on the table, and the interjection of the interest of …
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Lynne Kiesling I found the juxtaposition of two recent articles (found via Arts & Letters Daily) on language quite interesting. Wine writer Colin Bower is frustrated with the use of simile and metaphor in wine writing: why can’t we describe the experience of tasting a wine in a direct, factual way, without the use of …
Lynne Kiesling Let me count the ways … [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sHXCs84iJc] Seeing and hearing Stewart Copeland back behind a drum kit just makes me all jelly-like inside. Sometime today they will announce the details of their upcoming reunion tour. Takes me back to 1983, when I drove all over the midwest to see them as many times …
Lynne Kiesling One of the big stories in Chicago at the moment is the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), its expenditures, and its management decisions. Last week I mentioned the ongoing construction and expansion of the Brown Line stations, as well as Time Out Chicago’s set of feature articles. But there’s more frustration and discontent simmering …
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Lynne Kiesling Grant McCracken’s review of Super Bowl ads is the dernier cri in ad commentary for SB XLI. He provides links to the ads, in case you missed them. I thought the Coca-Cola ads were all quite good and showed a lot of ingeneuity. The e*Trade finger ad and the Budweiser stray dog ad …
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Lynne Kiesling Ooooh, baby, it’s cold outside! The cold snap affecting a large proportion of the U.S. population is placing upward pressure on oil prices, particularly because the cold snap is affecting U.S. regions that rely more on home heating oil than natural gas or electric heating: The onset of cold weather in the U.S. …
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Lynne Kiesling I am playing a little hooky this weekend and going skiing through Monday. In the interim, here are some thought-provoking reads: This Technology Review article on technological change in small-scale coal gasification that could be done on-site, in the home. Michael Dell is back in the news today, after taking back the CEO …
Lynne Kiesling Here’s an example of how bundling can create value: Google Pack for Windows. It’s a bundled download of a bunch of Google software (Earth, Picasa, Toolbar, Desktop), but more interestingly, the bundle includes non-Google software: Acrobat Reader, AdAware, Firefox, and Norton Antivirus. All of these are available for download separately, but Google has …
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