Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Killed, dead, before it even launched.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings delivered the news via a blog post this morning, reversing a decision he announced via a blog post three weeks ago. Though the Web site for Qwikster, the would-be DVD-only service, said Sunday night that it was “launching soon,” it will never launch at all. The URL now directs visitors to the main Netflix site.
While Netflix had to use some strained logic to explain its decision last month, this one is straightforward: It’s not going to force customers to use two different services to rent DVDs and streaming video, because customers hated that idea.
Wall Street didn’t like it, either. After Netflix unveiled its Qwikster plans, its stock, which had been tumbling since July, fell another 25 percent — from $155 on September 16 to $117 last Friday.
Just this last Friday, I was bitching to someone at work that this Reed Hastings guy seems to be apologizing for something every time I hear from him, and I’ve lately begun to entertain the thought he’s one of these people who screw up on purpose just so they can apologize. Ever know anyone like that?
Fiance is flying back home today. I was just about to sit down with her & figure out exactly how we wanted to downsize our 6-disc Netflix subscription. Wouldja freakin’ hold still so we can figure out what to do with ya?
Attention, all powerful people who run things: When you’re contradicting yourself and taking a hairpin-turn route bulldozing your own ideas, or nobody ever seems to say anything good about them unless they’re on your payroll, or it starts to seem appropriate to play some Three Stooges music when your ideas are being discussed…you might be having one of those “George Lucas invents Jar Jar Binks” moments. The failure to distinguish between the ideas of “I built something that seems to have taken off here” and “I am absolutely incapable of making mistakes.” Those are two different situations. Seems like it shouldn’t be hard to keep that in mind, but failing to keep it in mind, does seem to have become the plague of our times.
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