In the spirit of the E*Trade babies, here is Skating Babies, a brilliant spot done for Evian by BETC Euro RSCG. The music – which is brilliant – is Rapper’s Delight by Dan the Automator. Sure, it borders on uncanny valley a bit more more than the E*Trade spots, but it’s so amazingly well done
Read More...David Brooks, writing for the New York Times, on what characteristics help a CEO succeed: C.E.O.’s with law or M.B.A. degrees do not perform better than C.E.O.’s with college degrees. These traits do not correlate with salary or compensation packages. Nor do they correlate with fame and recognition. On the contrary, a study by Ulrike
Read More...Interesting snippet from the recent Oracle earnings call: Question (Kash Rangan – Merrill Lynch) So if I read it correctly, it is going to be ERP supply chain [cerium] for everything, HR, everything on demand, delivered as a multi [inaudible] service from your data sectors to add to the subscription model, right. Answer (Larry Ellison)
Read More...John Gruber: That we had to wait two years for the iPhone’s text selection and pasteboard is a good example of one aspect of the Apple way: better nothing at all than something less than great. That’s not to say Apple never releases anything less than great, but they try not to. This is contrary
Read More...So today is 83 and it seems cool. That’s because the last few days have been nearly 100, the exact temperature at which human beings will readily cook on a sidewalk. It seems Spring got trumped something fierce and Summer showed up and took all the money. Spring just got a book deal for a
Read More...Finally, the silence is officially broken from the medical establishment itself (PDF): I am pleased to confirm today, with the patient’s permission, that Steve Jobs received a liver transplant at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in partnership with the University of Tennessee in Memphis. Mr. Jobs underwent a complete transplant evaluation and was listed for
Read More...“If there’s one quality of successful people, they’re unreasonable in their expectations of themselves, not so much other people, but themselves. Unreasonable in what they expect, unreasonable in the demands they make, unreasonable in how much they give. He’s [Nelson Mandela] completely unreasonable. And those are the people that rule the world. For a woman
Read More...I gave this a passing link in our Oracle BI and PeopleSoft post last week, but I’m staring at it again and think it deserves its own post. Here’s Jeff McQuigg, writing for IT Toolbox, on the total costs of Oracle’s BI apps vs. 100% custom: When you add everything up, we estimate about a
Read More...This was the question asked of over 50 people of different ages, races and occupations in New York’s Times Square. The wide range of answers is fascinating.
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