iPod market share is quite significant - 70% or so. Why? There are plenty of other good mp3 players and most of them are cheaper.
Many iPod users say that the Apple’s device is just more convenient than other players. Every little detail is well-thought out. And it would seem the attention to details isn’t limited to the R&D department. The graphic designers are quite damn attentive, too, compare:
A great player, too, no doubt, but what's with the battery?
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Full charge!
Light rail stops tend to be located in the open air. There’s also such a thing as rain. People enjoy rains when looking at them from a comfortable shelter, but don’t enjoy them as much if left without a shelter. So, one thing that a light rail stop should protect from the rain is the bench where people sit, right?
Nope:
I'm sitting in the rain, just sitting in the rain, what a glorious feelin'!
And it’s not like the architect forgot that it rains sometimes. When it comes to important things, like the light rail operator’s property, it is well protected:
The schedule should be protected at all costs!
Perhaps the bench and the schedule were swapped during the construction, but then again, it’s not the first landscape design fail that we saw in San Jose.
You know how they have perfume ads in magazines, with the page scented with the actual perfume being advertised? You can bring the magazine up you nose and check out how the product smells.
Well…
I don't want to smell him!
In this case to do that would mean smelling his chest! Ewww!
“For your protection, Aqua Fill machines are sanitized daily” - great, but how about this one? It doesn’t look like an Aqua Fill machine, it looks more of a Pacific Mist to me.
OK, Aqua Fill are sanitized, but how about this one?
Following this logic, Ford dealerships could display a slogan like “All Toyota cars are very reliable!”.
Go figure.
It is great that Nutrition Information labels are required on all food items. However, they are somewhat flawed. For example, which one has more sodium:
Qucik, which is larger: 180/28 or 115/22.
OK, the left one is definitely fatter, but what about sodium?
And I don’t mean per arbitrary unit, I want to know how much salt per some common weight unit, like 100 grams, because I don’t eat “13 sandwiches” or “1 Package”, I eat more or less a constant amount of cookies with my tea. I also put several (maybe a non-integer number) slices of bologna in my sandwich if I see that the slices are kind of thin, so again, I want to know the fat/sodium/potassium/etc. amounts per a common unit.
These labels may be helpful to someone who has a strict limit of fat or calories or sugar to consume every day - such a person would just add up the provided amount per every manufacturer-specified unit of the product that she ate and try to keep the number below the limit. I believe most of us, however, just try to limit the bad stuff in general - e.g. eat food that has less sugar or sodium in it, without being too concerned about exactly how much sugar or sodium we eat.
Adding another column for “per 100 grams” values wouldn’t be too much of a hassle, but I am afraid the current system is too convenient for the manufacturers who want to hide the higher quantities of the bad stuff by messing with the definition of the “Serving Size”.
P.S. But kudos for at least including the “Serving Size” weight in proper units (i.e. grams).
I like spellchecker's.
So I guess that’s where all the incorrect apostrophe usage comes from!
Here’s an interesting toy I got for my heir:
U is for umbr... UFO!
Most of the pictures are fairly original, but check out the U - it’s not an umbrella anymore, it’s a UFO! I guess someone has to replace Mulder, although I wonder how the parents are going to explain their 3-year-olds what a UFO is… I’d start with general relativity, I guess.
P.S. Also check out what they have for the letter X. Much more imaginative than in this 70-s book I have:
X is for... Ah, it's just X!
Starving since 1973
“Starving Students“. The branding idea for the moving company is great, just as “Two men and a truck” is.
The history of “Starving Students” starts back in 1973 when a few students decided to offer moving services to pay off their tuition in college.
Starving students… These days college students are starving on purpose to look cool. If they need money for college, some of them would record and sell home brew adult videos rather than moving someone’s household crap.
But back to this design fail. By looking at the condition of the truck, it feels like “Starving Students” are still starving since 1973. I would be afraid to ask them to move something heavier than a couple of pillows at once.
I guess Google hasn’t quite acquired the real intelligence:
No, not these fans, Google!
(The forum is for TV/Movies fans, in case it isn’t clear from the picture).
Weekend photo from the road
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Hwy 80 towards San Francisco 