2 posts and columns on Thursday

I Got a Fever, and the Only Prescription Is…More iPhone!

in Mobile on June 25, 2010 at 8:06 am PT

Here’s an interesting bit of survey data from Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner, who found, like Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster, a significant portion of iPhone 4 sales Thursday to be upgrade purchases by existing iPhone owners. The majority of people buying the iPhone 4 don’t particularly need it. But they’re buying it anyway.

Sarah Palin's Dead Turkey Interview

in News on November 24, 2008 at 3:13 pm PT

How much do I love the Internet? Muchety-much after seeing this interview that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin gave plastered all over the Web, in which the former Republican VP candidate gives a local Anchorage television station an interview as a Thanksgiving turkey is being slaughtered right behind her. Still, ever the trouper (and sanguine hunter, it seems), Palin obliviously keeps up the turkey patter, having just “pardoned” another turkey earlier. Such is fowl fate.