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Waiting for StarbucksOS, but until then, Starbucks Coffee Liqueur will have to do. [here]

Steve Rubel nails the mainline tech media (media in general) for sleeping in on weekends. [here]
I always wondered why, in a 24/7/365 world, C|Net News publishes a lame “Weekend Edition”. Heck, even if it turns out to be a rumour…someone should be checking it out.

Read more here.
You kind of knew this was going to happen, as Bloglines is an idea that someone would try and turn into a revenue-stream.
Russell Beattie has the best comment on it. [here]
Charlene Li’s perspective here.

Vincent introduced himself this week in response to my post on sending in an abstract to the OSCON 2005 organizers.
A former director at W3Ping, he has moved on to other enterprises and now has started blogging at design4speed. Hopefully he continues to add content on Web performance.

WGBH is building a brand new $87M Headquarters. [here]
Maybe this is why their pledge programming is so awful.

See Here.
Congrats Russell. I miss the valley and the cool companies that are there. But I am also not willing to move back to a place which is so hideously expensive, where the public education system is awful (parents are asked to supply basic supllies such as pencils, toilet paper, etc. because Propostion 13 has destroyed the California Education system), and the business ecology tends to be very inward-looking.
However, if Yahoo! made me an offer…

First there was Scoble.
Now Jeremy Zawodny (I LOVE Polish names!) has spotted them at Yahoo!
The only two I see regularly belong to colleagues of mine, and neither of them is ever in tablet mode, that I have seen.

…please drop me a line. I am seeing a large number of visits, and just wanted to know what makes this so interesting to you.
Now, I don’t go out of my way to say hello to all of my visitors, but this person visits very often!

Darren Barefoot is attempting to give up his dependency on Caffeine. I commend his efforts.
I just discovered that the screaming headache I have had all day is due to a lack of caffeine. Two cups of Instant Coffee == No Headache.
Helluva cure, but that’s life.

Joi Ito pointed me to the post about Ogilvy & Mather doing “bullshit marketing” for American Express.
American Express is a company I have a lot of respect for. But when they start treating their techno-savvy customers as complete doufi (plural of doufus), then they slide down into the morass of spam-spewing card purveyors that flood my snail-mailbox daily.
And Joi Ito gets asked to pimp stuff in his blog. I never get asked to pimp anything. 🙁

This is still circulating around the next. See more here.
*LCD Marketing == Lowest Common Denominator Marketing