Danny Novo
From the monthly archives: December 2007
This is one of the Million Dollar Ideas. Please, take this idea, and make it a reality, so I can buy it. And if you know that this exists now, please point me to it! You know those weather/temperature stations you can buy everywhere now? The ones with the 2, 4 or 16 remote sensors, so […]
You may not have known this, but for the last month or so, maybe longer, I was trying to set up and run a shopping blog ala Mighty Goods by Maggie Mason. For various reasons, I have stopped trying. The best part is, I can start visiting her site again, and the even more awesome […]
Just heard George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue on the radio, and I immediately wondered what a United Airlines commercial was doing on NPR. Seconds later I realized that it was a performance of the Gershwin piece, not an ad. I don’t watch commercials anymore, with TiVo in the house, but United’s campaign predated my TiVo […]
Got an unsolicited telemarketing call from the American Lung Association yesterday. The woman assured me quickly that they were not asking for money, so I held on a few more seconds… until she told me that I could help them out immensely if I would just send sixteen letters to my neighbors on [insert my […]
Ha! So, Matt Baldwin, the author of the excellent and always enjoyable blog, defective yeti, just recently posted an entry about games for large numbers of people. One of those games was Werewolf, a social party game. He linked to Andrew Plotkin’s page about Werewolf on zarfhome. On that page, if you look hard enough, […]
Coverage of the mall shooting in Omaha
An interesting little article on the workings behind the scenes at the Omaha World-Herald (which used to be our paper, when we lived there) on the day of the mall shootings last Wednesday. Of course there’s disagreement about whether they did a good job or not, with most decrying the online coverage at Omaha.com. Here […]