15 May 2002

Wed, 15 May 2002

New Coke, Cherry Coke, Coke Classic, Vanilla Coke, Cocaine

Mark Pilgrim says:



Back in the day. Ellen Kim: Just-arrived Vanilla Coke has a taste that says, well, vanilla. Vanilla is prevalent ... It coats that delightful, battery-acid kick Coke is known for. ... The Coke aftertaste is there, but by then it's too little, too late. Is this what it's come to? We miss the classic taste of battery acid? Will we be waxing nostalgic to our grandchildren about original Coke (not to be confused with New Coke, Cherry Coke, or Coke Classic, mind you) and how it had that great battery acid taste that just hit your mouth and made your lips twinge in excitement? And nowadays all you can find is this vanillaed-down stuff that teases you with the battery acid taste, but boy you know it's nothin' like what we had, back in the day... It's possible that I had a point once, but I'm pretty sure I've lost it by now. [dive into mark]


Mark, I think the point is that Coke would taste a lot better if it still contained cocaine.

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Rodale joins the shallow moron pool

Another Run to a Deep-Link Suit. Ya know, I used to actually subscribe and read Bicycling on occasion. Not anymore. Rodale will go the way of the dinosaur AFAIC. Some people just don't get it. [( blogdex : recent )]

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Xbox gets affordable

Microsoft Slashing XBox Price. Microsoft is cutting the U.S. price of its Xbox video game console from $299 to $199, mirroring a move announced a day earlier by console kingpin Sony for its Playstation 2. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology]


Cool. Now I can afford one. Off I go to get new toys! I agree with Alan Cooper, UI guys should be playing games, that's where a lot of the interesting UI work's going on.

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Napster - Shawn Fanning's legacy

The Day the Napster Died. Napster, the company that changed the way people use their computers, is no more. But what it accomplished in its short, brilliant life will likely influence how people use the Web for years to come. That is Shawn Fanning's legacy. By Brad King. [Wired News]

Posted at: 16:03 | permalink

Transient failures or why I hate the internet

If you were trying to reach this website (weblog, blog) in the last 24 hours, you were probably greeted with all manner of DNS failures. I apologize. There was a routing error somewhere around Chicago that prevented traffic from round-tripping to my site depending on the request. I'm not sure of the procedure for handling those problems. I used to see circular routes in Chicago all the time when I lived in Redmond and had a VPN connection to Boston up all day and night. I sometimes think that Chicago just has a defective cloud or the internet routes there are roughly equivalent to flying in and out of O'Hare with it's criss-cross landings. Yikes. The site should be stable now. Both fingers crossed.

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