September 23, 2004
Indian Summer
Posted by nerdling | September 23, 2004 12:57 PM
Mark Lanegan was injured in a car accident last night, causing him to cancel East Coast dates and suspend his tour for a few weeks while he recovers.
Things we already know: How the music biz can live forever, get even richer and be loved.
Great news for solitary boozers in the British Isles—hopefully someone in the States will get in line to pick this one up. Say you're at the bar, enjoying a pint, and your friend wants to buy you a beer...only that friend is across town sitting on their couch with no intention of leaving. They can simply text message the bar via buymeabeer.com, enter their credit card info, and voila! Instabeer for you.
A new portable Nintendo system is set to hit the shelves in time for Christmas. The DS (for dual screen) will sell well below the price point for Sony's PSP (PlayStation Portable), at $150 to Sony's $299.
In what would seem to be a reversing of the trend, 250 tech jobs from India are being outsourced to Belfast, Ireland. While at first blush that seems like a switch from the old UK-and-US jobs going to India routine, Northern Ireland is, for most intents and purposes, a third world country, which means this isn't chaning anything but the location of the outsourced jobs.
so when i move to the british isles does that mean that you will support my alcoholism from across the pond?
this is the best idea ever.
why are the yanks so crap at coming up with ideas like this? oh, yeah...the fucking purtian belief system our solvent country is founded on. douche bags.
Posted by: nikilicious at September 30, 2004 11:00 AM
The "puritan(ical) belief system" that we inherited from--oh yeah, the limeys,--based around a religion espoused by--right again, the brits. From a country operating on a level of social sophistication SO much higher than ours that they devour American popular culture almost faster than Americans do, produce watermarks of highbrow entertainment like "Benny Hill" and "Mr. Bean", put topless chicks in their newspapers, worship a Royal Family which everyone admits is only powerful in the figurative sense but the British masses refuse to let go of, and they STILL can't find the time to fluoridate their water.
Gosh, we did we ever revolt against our evolutionary superiors? Oh yeah. Because England sucks.
Live Free or Die!
Dan
(Unapologetic Yankee)
Posted by: dan at October 2, 2004 08:51 AM
