I went on a brief hiatus to do things like earn my salary. I’m back now
- What!? Ticketmaster is $750 million in debt! Serves you right you greedy bastards. But how does that happen? And why did you double my Bon Savants ticket price? Argh. [via Paste]
- Yum! A $30 TV dinner, available in New York. [NYTimes via Consumerist]
- In today’s glass half-full moment, a useless survey finds that 91% of Japan won’t be buying the new iPhone 3G when it hits their market later this summer. Sounds bad for Apple, except when you consider that 9% will, and that’s about 11 million people. [via Macrumors]
- Root beer is the new beer! [NYTimes]
- Interesting marketing campaign for laundry detergent. Send samples wrapped in a t-shirt, then instruct the recipient to wash the shirt to demonstrate stain removing power. Hope it actually works. [Frederik Samuel via Kottke]
- Devo is pissed at McDonald’s. And they are suing. [Pitchfork]
- Gawker surveys New York bloggers and media gurus to figure out how exactly to break into the media industry. This is New York specific but I think it applies to all “cool” jobs anymore:
“-Claim you’re an expert in “New Media.” No one knows what the fuck it is anyway.
-Don’t say “Web 2.0″
-Do say “I subscribe to [X] feeds…”
Sad that you have to BS about all these changing web platforms in order to seem “skilled.” Other good pointers and full text here.
- Download some free tracks from stellar Cambridge indies Passion Pit. The live show is great, as you can imagine.
