Is the Superbowl commercial price points of $3.5million for a 30 second commercial really worth it?
The NFL, NBC and every Ad/PR firm on the face of the world is saying yes for all the reasons wall street loved credit default swaps: Loads and loads of CA$H! Life must be great on Madison Avenue.
But consider this: would a public auction of commerical time before, during and after be more accurate? Steven Dubner from Freakonomics fame takes a deeper look.
Finally Seagate announced support for Thunderbolt at this week’s CES in Las Vegas. As a gentle reminder here is Intel’s demo of this 10Gigabit technology.
I have been having some difficulty reading a few memorandums attached to the Pentagon Papers study in digital format. The National Archives did an absolutely wonderful job of making the entire text of the Pentagon Papers ‘selectable’ in Adobe PDF format.
My highest compliments to an amazingly professional effort to move the Papers, printed over 40 years ago into an easily copy/paste format for educators, students and historians.
May I suggest photoshopping the faded lines of text in attached memorandums?
By simply modifying the brightness level of the image’s histogram (using the Levels tool in Photoshop) it would benefit many readers who like me, find focusing and recognizing faded text somewhat difficult to read.
The example here took less than one minute to produce a deeper, darker text that makes character recognition much easier to comprehend.
BTW: Its wonderful to color hilight sections of any volume of the study on an iPad. And carrying around this entire 7,000+ page, 47 volume study is just remarkable.
If there is a way to get there — I would make the trip in a ping.
Few would imagine what creative minds at Apple and Pixar would invent when the iPad was introduced. With compelling content and affordable mobile devices my children are growing up in the Golden Age of Pixar, Apple and Disney. The idea of playing an old school ‘board game’ pales in comparison with the iPad’s interactive, digital game and adventure opportunities. Beyond driving around Radiator Springs, I believe a gold mine awaits with education for all ages. But for now….off to the Apple Store to pickup a Lightning and Mater.