Thank you for Your Visit, Have a Nice Day — performance piece by Agata Olek.
Photo by See-ming Lee via Creative Commons/Flickr.
Trying something new today. A little curation of the morning read. If it works, we’ll do it again tomorrow. And if it works again tomorrow, we’ll do it again Monday.
Sense a trend? Yes, this might become a daily thing. Without further ado, the morning read for January 14 (happy birthday, Peter Cervieri!):
- Crappy Products from CES: the annual Consumer Electronics Show leads to a week of breathless reporting by both mainstream news and niche gadget publications. But with so many products comes so many bad products. HuffPo highlights ten. Favorite best of the worst: elongated baseball hat that doubles as a TV.
- Games make their case: Know what’s passed a billion dollars in sales recently? Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, the shoot-em up delight for the PS3. It joins Avatar as the blockbuster of the past year. Unfortunately, video games still don’t get the same sort of love.
- But there is love… or maybe not: We’ve seen this story before but it’s popping up again so we regift to you. Man uses complex math to explain his womanly woes. As the PhD candidate writes, “The probability of finding love in the UK is only about 100 times better than the probability of finding intelligent life in our galaxy.” As we write, one’s success in the amorous arts is inversely proportional to the complexity of the mathematical equation one uses to pursue it.
- Don’t believe what you see: Moscow asked a contractor to install CCTV’s across the city. They would pay for the TV’s that “worked”. Parsing meaning in a way that former presidents could love, the contractor is now charged with fraud. Seems the cameras streamed pre-recorded pictures instead of real-time video.
- Berate the young fatties: Time once was a less socially sensitive place. Like in 1967 when British PSA’s lamented, “To Cure a Fat Child is not a Simple Matter.” Take a trip down memory lane with these videos.
Thus concludes this morning’s pieces. Good day to you all.
