Archive for February, 2012

How I became Amazon’s pitchman for a 55-gallon drum of personal lubricant on Facebook

My career as a personal-lubricant pitchman started with a favorited tweet on Stellar that linked to Amazon where, for just $1,495, anyone could purchase a 55-gallon drum of Passion Natural water-based lubricant (and save 46 percent off list!). “What are you going to do with all this lube?! Wrestling match? Biggest adult party ever?” the pitch for the [...]

The ‘anyone else should be worried if Apple has any success whatsoever’ school of thought

John Gruber complained today that as soon as someone has success doing things differently than Apple, we get pundits saying Apple needs to start doing things differently or else. But we get the inverse, too: Someone does something different than Apple, has little success with it, and pundits start arguing they need to change course [...]