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New Yahoo! logo is Gordon Gartrell Shirt of Logos

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Denise, I want a logo like Apple or Google!

Denise, I want an iconic logo like Apple, Coca-Cola or Google!

The logo they got

The logo they got

To expand on This: New Yahoo! logo is Gordon Gartrelle Shirt of Logos! I can just imagine a marketing exec named Theo who works for Yahoo! and screeches that everyone, especially Marissa is going to laugh at him when he presents the logo. Then Marissa Meyer gives it the thumbs up and everything’s cool even though it looks ridiculous.

Book authors should look to rappers for inspiration

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Authors should publish like Luda

Authors should publish like Luda

Book authors need to learn the hustle:

But not everyone agrees. Emily Gould complainsthat “When ebooks and pbooks are bundled, the ebooks are sold at a loss. That’s authors’, publishers’ and, associatively, non-AMZN retailers’ loss” and “frustrating we have to keep explaining that ebook production is not free. digital objects are not made by elves.”

Do it like rappers:

Self Publish or and go to Amazon and find alternate ways to promote or partner. The point is sell more, publish for less.

Do it like some other rappers:

Go to smaller imprints that demand less money for promotion.

Do it like other rappers:

Start your own imprint and get a partnership with an imprint which reduces their take on profits.

Do it like all those rappers do:

diversify your promotions and offerings. (say blog somewhere?)

In addition: trademark your sh*t, and protect your intellectual property. Or just realize you won’t make money and be ok with that.

Is this the farm team?

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Can they do it?

Can they do this?

PM Carpenter may be on to something:

Yet that seemed but part of an indescribable drift we’ve watched throughout Obama’s second term. There is, as I’ve opined before, something off, something not quite right in the White House. We have watched immense investments take place this year in, for example, gun control and immigration, even though, especially on the latter, there was never any realistic hope of … anything.

I get the optics, but fundamentally it has felt as though the WH has not itself understood, outside the optics, where it wants to go. It seems lost, waiting (and praying) for little more than the midterms, which could possibly change the Capitol Hill equation–but it’s unwilling to just come and say that, although just coming out and saying that would beat the hell out of all this perceived drift.

Now comes this Syrian debacle, at which even the administration’s allies are either laughing or crying. Obama’s best possible outcome is for Congress to hurriedly vote this turkey of a war authorization down, so he can move on to the higher and far more coherent ground of preventing national ruin and a global financial collapse, courtesy you-know-who.

This is a good question, because Kerry looks like he’s been left out on his own, this whole Syria trail balloon rollout is an awful miscalculation of what the American people are willing to do and how well we remember Iraq War and gun control and immigration reform were all but dead on arrival. Are they really up to this?

 

NFL contractually bound to crappy Surface Tablets

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This is better than Microsoft Surface, worse than an iPad

This is better than Microsoft Surface Tablet

MG Seigler is right:

Microsoft’s partnership with the NFL also makes the Surface the official tablet of the league, and Microsoft hopes that teams will start to use the devices on the sidelines during games. We saw a brief demo of a Surface app called X2 that’s designed to allow team staff to more easily track concussions

Something tells me we’re going to be seeing a lot of devices that look a lot like iPads on the sidelines but so obfuscated that you can’t quite make them out. Sure, they’re Surfaces!

The Bengals on Hard Knocks & many other teams already use iPads. 14 Teams as of last fall. Players phone of choice is iPhone something and I’m sure that 2nd is prob. some super big Samsung Android phone.

If a surface tablet is really being used to track concussions, then these players brains are screwed. I’m serious.

Another note: I had the unfortunate experience of using Windows 8 on a laptop. Quite literally one of the most frustrating counterintuitive messes ever. I never want a Windows 8 machine. Ever.

Thankfully, congress will vote on Syria

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President Obama will seek congressional approval to begin military action against the Syrian government.

This is how President Obama arrived at the decision to undergo the correct process of going to war:

In a two-hour meeting of passionate, sharp debate in the Oval Office, he told them that after a frantic week in which he seemed to be rushing toward a military attack on Syria, he wanted to pull back and seek Congressional approval first.

He had several reasons, he told them, including a sense of isolation after the terrible setback in the British Parliament. But the most compelling one may have been that acting alone would undercut him if in the next three years he needed Congressional authority for his next military confrontation in the Middle East, perhaps with Iran.

If he made the decision to strike Syria without Congress now, he said, would he get Congress when he really needed it?

“He can’t make these decisions divorced from the American public and from Congress,” said a senior aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the deliberations. “Who knows what we’re going to face in the next three and a half years in the Middle East?”
[…] Even as he steeled himself for an attack this past week, two advisers said, he nurtured doubts about the political and legal justification for action, given that the United Nations Security Council had refused to bless a military strike that he had not put before Congress. A drumbeat of lawmakers demanding a vote added to the sense that he could be out on a limb.

“I know well we are weary of war,” Mr. Obama said in the Rose Garden on Saturday. “We’ve ended one war in Iraq. We’re ending another in Afghanistan. And the American people have the good sense to know we cannot resolve the underlying conflict in Syria with our military.”

[…] Mr. Obama’s backing of a NATO air campaign against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in 2011 had left a sour taste among many in Congress, particularly rank-and-file members. More than 140 lawmakers, Republicans and Democrats, had signed a letter demanding a vote on Syria.

Moving swiftly in Libya, aides said, was necessary to avert a slaughter of rebels in the eastern city of Benghazi. But that urgency did not exist in this case.

Indeed, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Mr. Obama that the limited strike he had in mind would be just as effective “in three weeks as in three days,” one official said.

Thanks to UK Parliament and the 140 Democratic and Republican representatives that signed a letter demanding a vote, many of them recently elected or non-leadership voiced opposition to the President engaging Syria without congressional debate and vote.

The most disconcerting thing is this reaction from his foreign policy team:

Beyond the questions of political legitimacy, aides said, Mr. Obama told them on Friday that he was troubled that authorizing another military action over the heads of Congress would contradict the spirit of his speech last spring in which he attempted to chart a shift in the United States from the perennial war footing of the post-Sept. 11 era.

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The resistance from the group was immediate. The political team worried that Mr. Obama could lose the vote, as Mr. Cameron did, and that it could complicate the White House’s other legislative priorities. The national security team argued that international support for an operation was unlikely to improve.

This surprises me and probably a lot of the American public, but this is inside the beltway conventional wisdom for “both sides”:


That’s the liberal opinion. Waging any sort of war is not an administrative action. It is always a cost proposition. When the US wages war, we will lose money, create destruction, lose American soldiers and foreign innocents and will assume responsibility for post-war stability.

The precedent for going to war in this case is the constitution. Peter King has to know that and is arguing really that it’s better for a President to pretend the executive branch has no checks and balances.

Either way, we were too close to waging another war without congressional approval.

trying to rewrite civil rights history, again

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trying to rewrite civil rights history, again:

“I think Martin Luther King’s dream has been fulfilled,” said Ron Christie, a Republican strategist who served as special assistant to President George W. Bush. “All men and women in this country are now treated equally. Legal discrimination has been outlawed.”
Still, there are differences of opinion even among conservatives on this point.
Artur Davis served as a Democratic congressman representing Alabama before ultimately abandoning the party after a failed gubernatorial bid. Davis, who describes himself now as “a center-right Republican,” spoke at the 2012 Republican National Convention in support of GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
Davis argues that Republicans do themselves no favors when they insist that injustices have been banished.
“We do have racial inequality, we do have economic inequality that exists in this country,” he said “Any strain of rhetoric that seems to deny that inequality exists is destined to fall flat in the black community.”
Davis also contended that the GOP too often paid lip-service to “black outreach”.

Ron Christie sees what he wants to see. Artur Davis doesn’t see that he’ll never be too popular in his new party talking like that.Neither of them understand film and tv existed when Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was alive. Behold…evidence: