Michael Wallis, author of The Lincoln Highway: Coast to Coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate, was featured on the Colbert Report! That’s more than a million people who now know what the Lincoln Highway is.
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Apple and Palm
What a study in contrast. Yesterday, Palm announced that it is canceling its widely panned Foleo, a smartphone accessory that is essentially a stripped down laptop, before it was even released. While the idea is not necessarily bad, Palm needs to focus on its core products, the aging Treo smartphone line and the Palm OS, …
Avenue Q
Last Wednesday, I joined Jon and friends to go see Avenue Q at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco. In case you haven’t heard of it, think Sesame Street meets South Park. A case of humans and Muppet-style puppets work through their 20- and 30-something angst, and sing about love, purpose, and Internet porn. (These …
Media appearances
I’m in the newspaper! Of course, it has nothing to do with my day-to-day job. Instead, I was photographed talking to the photographer of the new Lincoln Highway book: Along the Father Road, Contra Costa Times, August 11, 2007 This complements my appearance in Bay Area Backroads on KRON 4 about road rallyes: Windows Media …
A Month of Movies
From July 4 to August 4, I watched four movies in the theater, which is probably more than the previous two years. Transformers. Better than I expected — the action and graphics were quite good (of course), and the acting wasn’t bad (maybe because my expectations were low). It’s done amazingly well at the box …
Lincoln Highway Book Tour — San Francisco style
After work today, I made my way up to Book Passage in San Francisco’s Ferry Building to catch the endpoint of the tour for the new book, The Lincoln Highway: Coast to Coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate, by Michael Wallis and Michael Williamson. The Lincoln Highway was the first road across America, yet …
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Matt Groening on "The Simpsons Movie"
I’m taking advantage of Comedy Central’s allowing us to embed their videos. (This certainly won’t be the last time.) Here’s Matt Groening talking with Jon Stewart about The Simpsons Movie.
Lucky is back!
When Save Mart bought the Albertsons supermarkets in Northern California earlier this year, I fully expected them to rebrand them as Save Mart. Instead, it’s pulling an “AT&T” and rebranding them as Lucky, their old name before they were bought out by Albertsons. I couldn’t help but smile when I found out — strong brand names truly never …
The joy of Wikipedia
As a kid I used to read the encyclopedia (yes, my nerdiness goes way back), so Wikipedia is truly a joy. Not only can I read it, I can also improve it. Most of my edits have been in subjects I initially know little about but have some strange interest in. I have an unusual capacity …
Today’s tech humor
From the excessive hype department: Apple’s New iPhone, as only The Onion can deliver A ‘Second Life’ parody you can’t miss, by Draftfcb, via CNET News.com