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Cheesy Home Video: Sailing in Turkey, 2010
Having just got back from sailing in the bay of Fethie with my family last week, I decided to use iMovie on my iPhone to edit a quick and cheesy video.
The iPhone Antenna Song
The banned iPhone 4 promo video
Tee hee.
McDonalds shows us it's French division has a heart, it's COO is a heartless idiot
McDonalds France recently aired a rather heartwarming ad in which a gay teen finishes a conversation with his boyfriend before having lunch with his father in MaDonalds. The ad ends with the slogan, "Come as you are". It's really rather good.
But now McDonalds have gone and ruined it all, as their COO Donald Johnson (below) has come out publicly saying that the ad would never air in America due to his Christian faith.
I've never shied away from the fact that I'm a Christian. I have my own personal beliefs and I don't impose those on anybody else... Having said that, at McDonald's, there are core values we stand for and the world is getting much closer. So we have a lot of conversations... about things that may have an implication in one part of the world and may be the cultural norm in another part of the world... But, you're right, that commercial won't show in the United States.
Oh, nice. I was sent a link to an article by David Dust which covers this, and whilst I didn't think much of the article as a whole, I thought the following was a valid comparison.
Consider this: can you imagine if a major American company hired a devout Muslim COO from Saudi Arabia who was a follower of Sharia law? And this COO decided that men and women weren't allowed to be in the same room at company headquarters, and women couldn't drive company cars and must keep their heads covered at all times??
And when questioned about this, the COO honestly replied: "But I'm a good Muslim, and to do otherwise would offend me and my religion". The right wing of this country would go completely insane.
The question is, can I overcome my occasional junk food cravings and join David in boycotting McDonalds? I think I need to try - I owe it to myself.
Best. Printer. Ever. (Best use of Lego ever?)
Google Has A Problem: VP8 Is Not As Good As H.264
Frankly, the way Google has handled the On2 acquisition and the release of VP8 simply has me puzzled. Google's not a bunch of dumb folks and I don't see why they would rush an inferior product out to the market, make it open-source and then hope it would unseat H.264 all while not getting any input from developers before the initial first release, even if it is beta. If Google permits changes to the spec and allows the developer community to help fix some of the glaring issues with VP8, I could see that approach. But at no time during Google's presentation yesterday did they frame the release of VP8 that way or ask for help from the development community to fix issues that they must know exist.
Dear America...
Hoorah!
It's official: iPad is the new Newton.
How similar are these ads?!
