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On Christmas Day, my wife and I walked into downtown Portland’s Regal Fox Tower, one of many such multiplexes Regal Cinemas operates. It’s a nice theater, with comfy seats, sharp screens, and friendly staff. I’m told the local owners are hip people, and this is evidenced by the oddball/artsy films…
I’ve often wondered this as well.
The fundamental problem is that many products are created to be sold, not used.
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New Mexico Magnetics by Poncho Byrne.
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Yes.
Taco Bell’s latest menu addition is selling like hot tamales. In the ten weeks since the company launched its Doritos Locos product — essentially a standard taco cradled in a shell made entirely of the popular corn chip — Taco Bell has sold 100 million of the culinary mashups to its fans (and to mildly curious passersby, probably). In comparison, it took 18 years for McDonald’s to sell its 100 millionth burger, although the fast food industry back then was only just picking up steam.
Where’s the Beef?
Waldo Jaquith on the impracticality of really making a burger totally from scratch. And we’re not talking about buying some ground beef from the grocer:
Further reflection revealed that it’s quite impractical—nearly impossible—to make a cheeseburger from scratch. Tomatoes are in season in the late summer. Lettuce is in season in spring and fall. Large mammals are slaughtered in early winter. The process of making such a burger would take nearly a year, and would inherently involve omitting some core cheeseburger ingredients. It would be wildly expensive—requiring a trio of cows—and demand many acres of land. There’s just no sense in it.
A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian society. It requires a complex interaction between a handful of vendors—in all likelihood, a couple of dozen—and the ability to ship ingredients vast distances while keeping them fresh. The cheeseburger couldn’t have existed until nearly a century ago as, indeed, it did not.
Via Daring Fireball
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There is practically nothing that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper — and he who considers only the price is that man’s lawful prey.
Not Your Father’s Digital Assistant
John Gruber on Siri, Apple’s new voice command app:
I was out running errands today, walking through the city. I remembered, a mile away from home, that a screw had fallen out of my wife’s favorite eyeglasses over the weekend, and that she was waiting for me to fix them. Walking down a city street, I said, “Remind me to fix Amy’s glasses when I get home.”1 Half an hour later, within a few doors of our house, the reminder went off.
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