I love the Internets…
where you can find literally anything you could ever imagine. Including: Cats that look like Hitler
Seriously?
They even have a forum with a rough estimate of some 10,000 posts! The Internet, not just a fad anymore.
The iPhone, for only $20k a year…
Abilene Christian University (ACU) will be the first school in the country to give out an iPhone (or Ipod touch) to every incoming freshmen starting this fall.
Wow. Why?
“Freshmen will use an iPhone or iPod touch to receive homework alerts, answer in-class surveys and quizzes, get directions to their professors’ offices, and check their meal and account balances.”
You can see what the interface will look like at acu.mobi. Looks like they are also moving to Google for their services like email, calendars, and such. I guess it’s pretty forward thinking for a university but I’d like to see what the costs are involved in such a big project. Who flips the bill for the AT&T contract? Repairs to the broken phones? (these are 18 year olds, you know?)
Sure beats the free pencil and used mattress my alma mater surprised me with on day one. Go Chaps!
Sometimes the customer isn’t always right.
One woman who frequently flew on Southwest, was constantly disappointed with every aspect of the company’s operation. In fact, she became known as the “Pen Pal” because after every flight she wrote in with a complaint.
She didn’t like the fact that the company didn’t assign seats; she didn’t like the absence of a first-class section; she didn’t like not having a meal in flight; she didn’t like Southwest’s boarding procedure; she didn’t like the flight attendants’ sporty uniforms and the casual atmosphere.
Her last letter, reciting a litany of complaints, momentarily stumped Southwest’s customer relations people. They bumped it up to Herb’s [Kelleher, CEO of Southwest] desk, with a note: ‘This one’s yours.’
In sixty seconds, Kelleher wrote back and said, ‘Dear Mrs. Crabapple, We will miss you. Love, Herb.’”
Nobody messes with Herb. I have never fired a client per se, but I have allowed some I don’t really want to associate with find other options.
from Positivesharing
Do the test
Fantastic. No doubt that this will spread across the Interwebs pretty fast, it’s likely you will see/get it more than once.
It’s sad how giddy I am…
…about mistakes like this:
An actual printed box for a Nintendo DS game called Imagine Babies. I could care less about the game, but I sure do love that they were too cheap to even purchase the rights to the image of the two babies on the bottom-right! Last time I checked, an image on iStockphoto would run you about $12 for a print quality version.
And a couple of other things that I find humor in…
Funny and true
Environmentalism at it’s finest
And one more for the road…
Coincidence?
