Monday, September 22, 2008
Game Over, Schoonover
Quite a legacy Philip Schoonover built over at Circuit City, eh? He announces his resignation as chairman and CEO and, bang, the company’s stock spikes almost 10 percent in extended trading. Seems leaving Circuit City was the best thing Schoonover has done for the struggling consumer electronics retailer since he accepted the CEO gig in 2006.
Blockbuster: I Think Icahn, I Think Icahn … I Know Icahn
A BlockBuster (BBI) acquisition of Circuit City (CC) may not be as much of a long shot as it first appeared. This morning the electronics chain, which has been vocal in its skepticism of BlockBuster’s ability to finance such a deal, opened its books to the video rental outfit. Why the sudden turnabout? Two words: Carl. Icahn.
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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.
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- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
- A Spectacular Cover of “Let It Be”
Spectacular in the bellowing Russian sailor sense of the word …
- Protect Insurance Companies PSA
“If you spell something wrong on your insurance claim, do you really deserve surgery? I don’t think so …”
