by Minter Dial | Feb 19, 2009 | Marketing
A woman, named Lee Redmond, with longest nails in the world suffered a bad car accident over the weekend and lost all her nails. It is hard to imagine, but she had not cut her nails since 1979. The combined total length was nearly 9 metres, with the...
by Minter Dial | Feb 18, 2009 | New Tech
My wonderfully witty friend David, in Schweiz land, came up with a new term that I would like to share with you: webiquity It is a neologism for web & ubiquity. As in “Minter is definitely webiquitous.” If you google webiquity, the word has been used...
by Minter Dial | Feb 17, 2009 | Branding, Marketing
News is out that Microsoft is going to start opening its own stores. (Seattle Times 12/2/09 or Mercury News, 13/2/09) Having hired David Porter, a 25-year veteran of Walmart, Microsoft wants to go down the Apple path to create a retail outlet to express, educate and...
by Minter Dial | Feb 17, 2009 | Politics
Here’s a juicy title for a thesis: “Curvature of Constitutional Space.” Is this thesis for a student of the law? Or Is it for a student of astrophysics? As I happen to be an amateur of astrophysics, the title certainly caught my attention.The full...
by Minter Dial | Feb 13, 2009 | Branding, Travel
Caught sight of this rather cool looking motorcycle. Photo taken with my lowly blackberry. Cool though it may be, the owner felt that they could also invent its parking space — more or less along the black line of a zebra crossing. Anyone know...