The Cart Blog

Here’s China’s Hu Jintao:

Here’s  North Korea’s Kim Jong Il:

and finally, here’s VietNam’s own Nguyen Tan Dung

Oh sure, they’re murderous sociopaths – but will you look at that hair!

Quite funny – watch the video.  As an aside,  Merlin Mann seems incapable of creating anything that is not brilliant.  I first heard about Merlin when I was scribbling some notes and putting them in my pocket, which a colleague of mine called a variant of the hipster PDA.  I’ve been a big fan ever since.

Check out the Uber SEOs – they’re straight shooters. Sample writing:

Uber SEO Company has entered into a search engine marketing agreement with Google. In the event of full disclosure we must disclose the agreement is the Adwords TOS.

These boys are very creative. Good job, fellas!

• Wacky product names: this is not exactly what the greek word agape means. The brand name is a bit wacky too.
• Merlin Mann was on Jesse Thorn’s Sound of Young America and he was in fine form.
• Bodybuilders pluck stranded car from ditch. I love stories like this.

Here I am, introducing  Jesse Thorn, “America’s Radio Sweetheart,” on The Sound of Young America. It’s great to be an American.

Who says whining doesn’t pay? Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz just announced that the coffee king will be offering free wifi to Starbucks cardholders. Coffee and wifi … these are a few of my favorite things. See you at Starbucks!

• No show worker gets paid for 4 years at Avaya. The real question is: how were the raises during that time?
• Woody Allen’s favorite typeface is called Windsor-EF Elongated.
• Whiplash, the cowboy monkey.

As a long time fine-art hound and a life-long dork, you cannot imagine how thrilling it was for me to see my two passions conflated in this Flickr exhibit of fine art.