by Minter Dial | Mar 21, 2009 | Travel
My sharp-witted friend, David (arigato gozaimasu), sent me this stunning news: you can buy this 30-room castle, plus several other buildings and 15,000 square meters of surrounding land for just over 1.1 million euros. Here is the story. The château in question is the...
by Minter Dial | Mar 19, 2009 | Marketing
Listening to Apple’s videocast of the opening speech at this year’s MacWorld 2009, I heard that Apple stores around the world receive 3.4 million visitors per week. Via a separate source, I see that Apple had 251 stores as of the end of calendar year 2008...
by Minter Dial | Mar 18, 2009 | Entertainment, Politics
It took a little bit of exploration on dead.net and Rolling Stone to find out — substantially after the fact — that the [revised Grateful] Dead played for Obama in the Mid-Atlantic inaugural ball (20 Jan 2009). No one I know was in attendance or perhaps...
by Minter Dial | Mar 17, 2009 | Marketing
The Paris mayor’s office has seen fit to launch an outdoor ad campaign to keep Paris clean. The image of trash in one or other natural environment is headlined with “unacceptable” or “scandalous” in Paris, too! To the...
by Minter Dial | Mar 13, 2009 | Marketing, Travel
The never ending flow of examples of how Apple has impacted the world continues… Above is an outdoor ad in Paris by a travel site (www.marmara.com) using multiple coloured suitcases, much like the Apple Shuffle, to mention one of the iconoclastic campaigns. In...
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