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Entries for October, 2008

Yellow Pages Collaborate to Kick a Down Neighborhood

Here is a vacant house in Cleveland: And here is the view from the porch: It looks like every yellow pages company in Cleveland has done their part to pollute this property. First we have a Yellow Book: And AT&T’s Real Yellow Pages: Plus a bonus AT&T White Pages: And another AT&T Yellow Pages: Plus [...]

A Brighter Day Will Come

Obama ’08 – Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo. via Cyberchimp (NSFW)

Netflix + Silverlight = No Need for Windows

Now that Netflix will support streaming of movies on the Mac using Microsoft’s Silverlight, I’ll no longer have a use for Microsoft Windows. I’ve been using a MacBook Pro for just over 2 years now after switching from a Windows laptop. It didn’t take long to get used to doing just about everything on the [...]

W City Center Hotel, Chicago TP

Katie sent in this TP photo a while back from the W City Center Hotel in Chicago. That’s an interesting variation on the traditional triangle fold. Katie’s take: “I found the single fold to be pretty classy. Also, with only a single fold, it takes out some of the folding complications so you can get [...]

Front Door Thinking in a Back Door World

Matt Mantey from The Internet is Just a Fad has some examples of the weaknesses with Nordstrom’s online retail experience. While Nordstrom’s has an incredibly recognizable and respected offline brand, it doesn’t necessarily translate into comparable online success. If I was to guess, I think the problem faced by many large retailers trying to succeed [...]

Katie Cannon Wins the Guthrie’s Endless Bridge Photo Contest

Congratulations to Katie Cannon (aka Camacho Watcho) for winning the grand prize in the Guthrie’s Endless Bridge photo contest. She won a camera from National Camera & Video plus two season tickets to the Guthrie. Awesome prizes. As I understand it, Katie’s photo will be on display during the the current show, “A View from [...]

Wassup 2008

Via Cajunboy

Northwest Airline’s “Match Southwest” Strategy

NWA says they’re going to match Southwest’s prices once Southwest comes into the MSP market. Okay, fine. That may keep some NWA Worldperks mile-whores from switching but does little for anyone else. Why deal with the Lindberg Terminal when you can use the much more accessible Humphrey Terminal (with the exception of the meandering LRT [...]

The Bulldog St Paul Lowertown’s Website

I’ve noticed a major uptick in traffic to The Deets from people looking for the latest information on the status of The Bulldog’s new St Paul location. The one nugget I can throw out is the website for the St Paul location. They appear to have two reserved: www.thebulldogstpaul.com www.thebulldoglowertown.com Both currently sport a coming [...]

A Rash of Longfellow Burglaries – Mostly Garages

The Minneapolis Police are reporting that 5 garages and one home (non-forced entry) were burglarized between Oct 21-22. Here are the reports: Since October 21, there have been five garage burglaries and one residential burglary in the Longfellow neighborhood. Most of the activity has targeted garages. The victim of the residential burglary was working in [...]

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