Archive for June, 2007

blame it on duchamp.

Via Letters of the New Yorker,
Banksy, as profiled by Lauren Collins, is surely a talented artist, but the moment he makes a brushstorke on property that doesn’t belong to him he is a vandal and a criminal. It is an unfortunate truth that the notoriety given to Banksy and other graffiti vandals by media [...]

Re-thinking business in revenue per employee

The latest issue of Fortune magazine details the back-story of Nintendo’s success as a video game company. One thing worth noting is how impressively lean Nintendo is in headcount compared to the amount of revenue the company is able to bring in:
In short, Iwata has made Nintendo as efficient as a bullet train and [...]

Wen

Danny is selling his Shure Drum Mic Kit, and if you buy it, we’ll give you a the CD, Songs from the Basement, which is so underground and limited that not even the cool (and very rich) last.fm kids know about.

The band Wen (no relation to the Wrens, though they are from Jersey as well) [...]