Ten Brands That Will Disappear in 2013

http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2012/06/21/ten-brands-that-will-disappear-in-2013/

quote of the moment

"i do expect the aliens to make themselves fully known to people in the
next few years. and i'm in touch with them. i'm serious, but it's
gonna be a really good thing. when it happens, people will look back
and say, 'but bootsy said this would happen, way back in 2011,' and i'm
gonna look like a genius. but i'm really not, it's just what's
happening."

-- bootsy collins

Top 10 Dying Industries - Real Time Economics - WSJ

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/03/28/top-10-dying-industries/

News - News Detail -

this is in relation to a piece i've been thinking about lately and will
write in the next several days.

http://m.cnet.com/Article.rbml;jsessionid=W628DddXZKDOYT2YN9RaMw**?nid=20028837&cid=null&bcid=&bid=-261

the future of pop machines

from special K: have you seen this? http://www.coca-colafreestyle.com/index.jsp they have them around here now.

the hotel TV inflection point

we're at an interesting point of time right now from a hotel TV point-of-view ... every now and then you'll still get a room with tube TVs in the US, although flat panels predominate.

in 5 years, i doubt you'll see tubes anywhere in the states.

the future of a rising tide

good article about rising water levels and the marshall islands. i knew a woman in college who is marshallese ... i'm going to try and track herdown to see what she thinks.

http://m.yahoo.com/w/ynews/article/topstories/16?url=http%3A%2F%2Fxml.news.yahoo.com%2Fus%2Fnews%2Frss%2Frichstoryrss.html%3Fu%3D%2Fap%2F20101206%2Fap_on_sc%2Fclimate_disappearing_nations&.ts=1291684006&.intl=US&.lang=en&ref_w=frontdoors

the future of tom flanagan

i'm guessing this guy will be forced to resign his job in less than a fortnight:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/canada/8172916/WikiLeaks-Canadian-official-calls-for-assassination-of-Julian-Assange.html

{12/1 flanagan has now apologized for his remarks (of course).  there's currently a witch hunt against the wiki leaks people, so there's some air cover for flanagan being an ass ... i still think it may take him down.

http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/12/01/flanagan-wikileaks-assange.html}

article on the future of free speech ...

... relative to terrorism and the 'net.

http://m.yahoo.com/w/ygo-frontpage/lp/story/us/50927/coke.bp%3B_ylt=A2KIP62CT.1MGlkAvAIp89w4%3B_ylu=X3oDMTIxczZmZmR1BGNjb2RlAzMEY3BvcwMxBGNzZWMDbW9iaWxlLXRkBGludGwDdXMEcGtnA2lkLTUwOTI3BHBvcwMzBHNsawNtb3Jl?ref_w=frontdoors&view=today&.intl=us&.lang=en

tip jars

in the past i never thought i'd see those damn things on every fricken
service counter in the future.