Herb Kelleher, the co-founder, former CEO, and chairman emeritus of Southwest Airlines died on Thursday, January 3 at age 87. I don’t have many heroes in the business world, but Mr. Kelleher was one of them. Thank you Herb. Rest well. We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things. — Herb Kelleher / Southwest… [Read more]
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Carole Penny Marshall
Penny Marshall died on Monday, December 17, 2018. I enjoyed the world a little bit more just knowing she was in it. I haven’t thought of her in ages, but I miss her already. This is the way it’s going to be, I think. Penny Marshall, ‘Laverne & Shirley’ Star and Movie Director, Dies at… [Read more]
How could it be so?
Every Who down in Who-ville, the tall and the small, Was singing! Without any presents at all! He hadn’t stopped Christmas from coming! It came! Some how or other, it came just the same! And the Grinch … … with his grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow, Stood puzzling and puzzling: “How could it be so?”… [Read more]
All about Christmas
Linus explains the true meaning of Christmas. Charlie Brown: “Everything I do turns into a disaster. I guess I really don’t know what Christmas is all about. Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?” Linus: “Sure Charlie Brown. I can tell you what Christmas is all about.” Lights please … And there… [Read more]
The scariest movie ever made
Scene for scene, John Carpenter’s Halloween may reign as the greatest horror movie of all time. The simplicity, the suspense, the music, and the style have often been imitated, but never duplicated. Released in 1978 on a dinky $300,000 budget, the 30-year-old filmmaker terrified us by bringing an evil, relentless force to a place that could… [Read more]
The end of Google Plus
On October 8, Google announced that it was shutting down Google Plus for consumers, citing low user engagement, and a software error that potentially exposed the data of hundreds of thousands of users. Google indicated that Google Plus would operate until August 2019, allowing users to download and migrate their information. There’s a lot of… [Read more]
Google turns 20
In case you missed it, Google celebrated its 20th anniversary on September 4, 2018. To commemorate the occasion, The Verge took a trip down memory lane with the biggest moments, product launches, and acquisitions throughout Google’s two-decade history. Twenty years ago, Google started with an ambitious goal to organize the world’s information and make it… [Read more]
The Benioffs buy Time magazine
I’m not sure how I feel about this. I used to read Time magazine regularly, often alternating subscriptions with Newsweek (what happened to them?). Of course that was back when the Time Person of the Year had real gravitas and a typical issue would run over a hundred pages. Now it’s more like a newsletter… [Read more]
The 10,000-year clock
This post has absolutely nothing to do with web design, marketing. branding, browsers or social media. It’s just cool. And inspiring. We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. — T.S. Eliot Jeff Bezos and… [Read more]
Yes Virginia
There is a Santa Claus. Yes, Virginia was a real little girl and her story actually happened. In the fall of 1897, eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of The New York Sun, asking the age-old question: “Is there a Santa Claus?” Her letter, and the response by Francis P. Church, became… [Read more]
