QOTD
"This shirt will change your life!"
- Banana Republic email ad this morning
I love marketing. Bunch-a 20-somethings in a room with a couple-a oldies sprinkled in.
Oldie: "OK, how are we going to sell this crap."

Youngie: "Well, everything is Obama, and Obama everything. So how about something related to 'change'."

Oldie: "Done! To the bar..."
Speaking of marketing... you know what a word cloud is, right? These guys define it and also have software to let you make your own word cloud: www.wordle.net

Here's a word cloud of Pres. Obama's inaugural speech. I forgot the source of this. Dop.


"Less... nation... every... time"... pops right out, eh. And "Common".
You can make a fun game out of it too... can you find words like: freedom, liberty, believe, Americans?

How about Ronald Reagan's inaugural cloud?



"people... freedom... Americans... must... believe", and Reagan's #1 anti-indicator "government".
The Reagan cloud, and other inaugural speech clouds are here:
Word Cloud Analysis of Obama's Inaugural Speech Compared to Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Lincoln's

Youtube is a great generation gap indicator. I rarely watch youtube videos. And, I don't get it... watching a tiny, crappy video of some cat falling off a roof or something on my PC. This is the bestest, most perfect example: Top 10 YouTube Videos of All Time... a 6 minute video of a guy dancing alone on a stage. I bailed after 2 (painful) minutes. That said, I did stay for the whole 5 minutes of some hooligan teenager playing Pachebel's Canon on electric guitar. It's #4 in that link above, called "Guitar." Not bad.

QOTD2
"She's 68, but she says shes 24!"
- Ty Krieger singing Rage lyrics at Outback Steakhouse last night... stupid Guitar Hero. He he!
Off to wrestle with Mr. Market.
peace... yow, bill

PS - May go see "The Reader" tonight... read the book, see the movie before it disappears. Let me get this straight... Kate Winslet as a big-boned, kind-a homely German prison guard. What the? Well, at least I will go in with low expectations. He he.

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