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Run Like Hell (Pink Floyd day here @cbmackay)

David Gilmour’s 1984 live version of “Run Like Hell”, from “London 1984” (an obscure but official English release of middling sound quality), before he went all 20-minute-crowd-pleasing-self-indulgent-never-ending-solo-ish with Pink Floyd 1987 Inc™ has a certain je-ne-sais-quoi about it, even if it is a bit rough around the edges, sound-quality-wise.

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I hate that I like this

kellyoxford:

Sorry this is basically a sony ad, but the results ACTUALLY freaked me out.
I’m sure there are a ton of these around, but this was the first I’ve seen.
Stare at the red dot on her nose for 30 seconds.
Look at the ceiling and blink really quickly.

WHAT THE FUCK BRAIN!?!?!?!
WHAT
THE
FUCK….

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So ya thought ya might like to go to the show
To feel the warm thrill of confusion that space cadet glow
I’ve got some bad news for you sunshine,
Pink isn’t well he stayed back at the motel
They’ve sent us The Wrongs as a surrogate band
We’re gonna find out where you fans really stand

Are there are any deer in the theatre tonight?
Get ‘em up against the wall
There’s one in my headlights — he don’t look right to me!
Get ‘im up against the wall
and that one looks squeamish — and there’s a racoon!
who let all this wildlife into the room?
there’s one smoking a joint — and another with spots!
if I had my way around here I’d have all of you shot!

Luther Wright & the Wrongs’ bluegrass-themed (yes, bluegrass) cover of In the Flesh from Pink Floyd The Wall. Original words & music by Roger Waters.

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How to save RIM

  • Recognize that Marco Arment is smarter than anyone on your Board and fire the lot of them. 
  • Hire Apple’s Scott Forstall, at any price. Even if it didn’t help (cause really you’d need Jonny Ive and Tim Cook, and half a dozen other people, too), it would hurt Apple. A lot. It would certainly shake things up; fresh blood is needed.
  • Kill Adobe Flash support, and give Adobe back their source code: it’s a money pit. Worse? It’s not a product differentiator: the market doesn’t care. Next!
  • You had one advantage going into the fight with Apple et al — truly secure email — and you blew it. Show your customers that you won’t bow down to governments (esp. but not limited to totalitarian dictatorships) that want back-door access to your network. Do it publicly. It’s not about terrorism (nothing ever is): it’s about cheating spouses who don’t want to get caught. They’ll notice.
  • You tried to introduce a product — the PlayBook — that didn’t support your biggest advantage — email. Its OS was MIA. Amateur hour needs to be over.
  • Put your crack hardware teams (that are desperately trying to eek out performance and battery life out of devices saddled with Adobe Flash) in a room and don’t let them out until they have an idea for a product that does one thing better/faster/cheaper/longer than anyone else’s. Who knows? Maybe they’ll come up with a PlayBook that can do email.
  • If there’s one thing that being a Mac user in the 90s taught me, it’s that marketing is huge. Apple marketing was anemic until Jobs came back. None of this smug, amateurish “amateur hour is over” nonsense, either. You’ve been handed your hat, shown the door, and you’re lying face-down in the mud. Act like it: be scrappy, be aggressive, but don’t be arrogant. Then people will just be happy to see you fail. Even Canadians.

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