If only I were making this up (via FP Passport):
“I want you to know that the gum arabic which runs all the soft drinks all over the world, including the United States, mainly 80 percent is imported from my country,” the ambassador said after raising a bottle of Coca-Cola.
A reporter asked if Sudan was threatening to “stop the export of gum arabic and bring down the Western world.”
“I can stop that gum arabic and all of us will have lost this,” Khartoum Karl warned anew, beckoning to the Coke bottle. “But I don’t want to go that way.”
I know it’s lame to use the same excerpt as FP, but that really is the best bit.
The sports world is abuzz with the news that some folks with big money (including Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban) are planning on launching a new professional football league to compete with the NFL. I’m wondering whether they’ll institute any rule changes to make the league a real alternative to the NFL and college football. The rules of football are ripe for innovation. One problem with the NFL is that the optimal strategies for success are pretty well understood. I’d love to see a league come into existence with rules that diverge enough from the NFL rules to foster real innovation in football tactics. It would also help the league compete for talent by creating jobs for college football players who don’t fit into the NFL mold for their position for whatever reason.
Here are a few suggestions:
I’m all for a new football league, especially if it means changing up the rule book to create a new kind of football.
Yesterday, Last.fm announced that they are being acquired by CBS. That was fun while it lasted.
You know how I keep telling developers they need to learn JavaScript? It’s true now more than ever.
Palm has released a laptop that’s just a smartphone accessory. Is there going to be a market for a product this bizarre?
I’ll be attending DCampSouth in Raleigh on Saturday. It’s a local unconference covering user experience and design. If you’re going as well, be sure to find me and say hello.
High energy prices and resulting increases in the demand for corn are hurting the profits of steakhouses. We should all be eating grass fed beef anyway.
New military regulations prevent journalists from publishing photos of wounded solders without the written consent of those soldiers. It seems sensible to respect the rights of soldiers who have been wounded in combat not to have their photos published, but the net effect of this regulation is that it prevents the media from documenting what’s happening on the ground in Iraq every day. Of course, no such rules exist when it comes to Iraqis, and we don’t see many photos of the horrors they face every day, either.
One thing stood out to me about Dave Winer’s painful experience of trying to go to a clothing store and buy a jacket — every clothing store he went to before he got to REI is actually owned by the same company.
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