This Is What You Eat in a Year (Including 42 Pounds of Corn Syrup)
I’m scared to think how much more coffee would be on my personal chart.
Here is what Carol Bartz thinks of the Yahoo (YHOO) board that fired her: “These people fucked me over,” she says, in her first interview since her dismissal from the CEO role late Tuesday.
According to some number crunching by CNN, [Bartz’s severance] includes $3 million in cash, as well as a pro-rated yearly bonus worth somewhere between $1 million to $2 million. Add in company stock and you get an extra $5.2 million, a payout figure the company floated in December of last year, which is now higher.
That must be so hard for her.
Kanye West and the Magical Stomach Lasers
The Mariners have released their It Gets Better video. They have also finally captured Brendan Ryan’s mustache in full HD. Kudos on both counts. The video is here and embedded below:
(h/t Lookout Landing)
“We need a new Mario game, where you rescue the princess in the first ten minutes, and for the rest of the game you try and push down that sick feeling in your stomach that she’s “damaged goods”, a concept detailed again and again in the profoundly sex negative instruction booklet, and when Luigi makes a crack about her and Bowser, you break his nose and immediately regret it. When Peach asks you, in the quiet of her mushroom castle bedroom “do you still love me?” you pretend to be asleep. You press the A button rhythmically, to control your breath, keep it even.”
— To: Nintendo
Re: Game Design
[video]
I don’t know why I own this.
Zombie dock out in the middle of the San Francisco Bay.
Behind The Scenes: Microsoft's Attempt To Woo Conan O'Brien For Xbox Live -
But before TBS came calling, Microsoft did its best to entice the comedian to bring his show to Xbox Live to help launch an original content channel on the console. The company and the performer have never addressed the reports of the conversation …
While Team Coco passed on the Microsoft offer, they still seemingly walked away with some respect for what the company was planning. Ross didn’t go into details about the big picture, but there have been several other reports.
Crazy. This could have been huge for Microsoft. They’ve done a great job of luring big media players onto Xbox Live—they were the first to get Netflix, and are currently the only ones with live ESPN broadcasts—but this could have been their first big splash in original programming.
As much as I’d like to say this is an example of the growing power and cachet of the video game industry, it’s probably a better example of the lines between media platforms getting more and more blurry.