“Awards don’t mean a goddamn thing. They’re stupid. They’re all stupid….and if I hadn’t already won all these awards, I would not be talking like this.” –Jerry Seinfeld at The Comedy Festival, November 19, 2005 For years, football enthusiasts have argued over the NCAA-to-NFL transition. Fans of the sport quibble over beer about famous draft…
“If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.” — Larry Page, 2006 Just months after Grooveshark met a similar fate, the streaming music app Streamus was silenced by powerful critics. I discovered Streamus after our forced migration from Grooveshark….
“You can’t take over the world without a good acronym” — C.S. Woolley The internet requires decimation. People often misuse that word as a synonym for annihilation, which means total destruction. “Decimation” literally means 10 percent of something is destroyed or removed, and there’s this whole historical thing with the roman legions and shit,…
“Yeah, so long. We wish you well. Told us how you weren’t afraid to die. Well, so long. Don’t cry, or feel too down. Not all martyrs see divinity, but at least you tried.” –Maynard James Keenan, 1996 Edit – July 20, 2015: Sadly, the title of this article foreshadowed the news of Josh Greenberg’s…
“When you can say, here’s ‘Avatar 2,’ and you’ve got six billion people ready to see it, it doesn’t take a lot of marketing to get them into the theater.” –Jim Gianopulos, Chairman and CEO of 20th Century Fox, April 2014. When Will It Stop?! These past few years, I’ve heard a lot of…