Saturday, July 6, 02002
Eli Lilly & Co is busy building a culture where its OK for drug companies to mail unsolicated pharmies through the US postal service.
"Dear Patient," reads a letter accompanying the pills that was signed by her local doctors. "We are very excited to be able to offer you a more convenient way to take your antidepressant medication.
"For your convenience, enclosed you will find a FREE one-month trial of Prozac Weekly," the letter continues, before cautioning patients to stop their regular antidepressant one day before starting the once-a-week version.
As if the 'thrax wasn't bad enough, now I've got to worry about getting hits of the soma as well. "Hey, kid, the first week's free." Thanks, guys, but no thanks. Mind if we build our own culture where the likes of the Prozac Survivors Support Group are no longer neccessary ?
Posted at 11:41 PM EST [Link][Comment]
The film "The Next Industrial Revolution" is showing at the Arlington Central Library, 1015 N. Quincy St on July 17th, at 7:00. It sounds interesting, but my inner cynic is saying "Hey, it may just be a big ad for MBDC, sellers of branded baby blankets and leadership visioning.
But perhaps I am being too harsh. The Hannover Principles are pretty interesting. Lots of other good articles are at www.mcdonough.com. But be forwarned. The small site is massively overdesigned. I assume it will be illegable to obsolete browsers.
Unfortunately these guys are a click away from the super creepy marketing firm The Moderns. Check out there thoughts on the future of branding.
Posted at 10:55 AM EST [Link][Comment]
Thursday, July 4, 02002
EDS needs to be taken down a few notches:
"The culture of the company is the behavior of its leaders," Brown has been saying in speeches, over and over and over again. Yet, when questioned about his $55 million pay package at the EDS annual meeting last month, up from $4 million the previous year, Brown responded, "I have to make that much money. I have a very expensive wife."
It looks like Larry Vervynckt may be the man for the job. Hats off to you, Larry.
Posted at 05:10 PM EST [Link][Comment]
Just in time for the Fourth, DC Vote has asked England to take back the Distrct:
"We were once subjects of the crown, so we think it's time for Great Britain to protect the democratic rights of American citizens here in Washington."
Posted at 03:20 PM EST [Link][Comment]
Wednesday, July 3, 02002
The upcoming holiday has me all in a patriotic tizzy. We should bring back some of the old WW2 posters, since, you know, we're at war and all. My suggestions are below. Note well, dear readers, these are not the recent parodies you've been seeing everywhere else. These are the real thing. At some point, someone somewhere in the government had a bit of a clue. These are just begging for the wheatpaste.
Help Stop Fuel Waste
Use it up, Wear it out, Make It Do
Fuel Fights, Save Your Share
Serve, Conserve
Have you REALLY tried to save gas ?
Plain horse sense - SAFETY
Sponsor a school lunch program
and last but not least, paying extra special attention to number 6:
Our Freedoms and Rights.
Posted at 02:35 PM EST [Link][Comment]
Tuesday, July 2, 02002
Thanks to Steph I know there was a Gay Pride Day at Ashcroft's DOJ. "We're here, We're career". Oh how very, very sweet. My favorite line of that wacked-out article:
This means that the Administration is playing the pro-family movement as a sort of Sister Souljah in order to impress the mythical soccer mom who is looking for a kinder, gentler GOP
It's got to take a lot of courage to go to something like that, what with all the daily prayer meeting nonsense skimming off taxpayer dollars down at Justice. Hats off to everyone involved !
Posted at 07:05 PM EST [Link][Comment]
Monday, July 1, 02002
The blog's having a Happy Bun Bun day. I must have broken my little referer log script over the weekend. Where's my love !?!? Give me my love !!!
P.S. Alexander, you're Birthday Greeting is in the mail. I'll call tonight.
Posted at 02:40 PM EST [Link][Comment]
So I've begun to seriously consider replacing the old Saturn with the hybrid. The old car overheated a couple weeks ago and now the sunroof motor is starting to act up. It's getting up to that "more expensive to maintain than the original payments were" mark. Sigh.
I'm leaning towards the Insight though there's now a hybrid Civic as well. The Insight page will eventually redirect you to real HTML if you're a good surfer and refuse to install the Flash plugin. The hybrid Civic page is not so customer-friendly, so you're stuck. Bad marketing, Honda. Bad Bad Bad !!
InsightCentral also has lots of useful info. InsightMan also looks good, if a tad bit over the top. There's also Prius Envy, but I'm really leaning pretty heavily towards the Insight now.
Posted at 08:47 AM EST [Link][Comment]
Sunday, June 30, 02002
The music at the Silk Road Festival is pretty amazing. I went down to the Mall yesterday, figuring I'd get bored after about an hour, and ended up staying over four and half hours, just moving back and forth between the music tents. The tents were all packed, and most of the time I was stuck out in the hot sun until enough people would leave that I could worm myself into the shade for a while. At about that time some performer I'd already seen would come on, and I'd have to switch tents again.
In the extended post I've included my version of a story that was told at the nomad tent. I liked it a lot, but couldn't find it on-line anywhere, so I typed up my own version. Enjoy.
Posted at 12:12 PM EST [Link][Comment]
