Two businesses that are using Twitter correctly are Woot and Amazon's MP3 store. Both have perfect business models for the medium. They both post one deal each day on Twitter. You don't get overly spammed (would Twammed be Twitter Spam?) and you get a heads up on a good deal each day. It's nice to get short, helpful information from Twitter. Good at both Amazon and Woot.
I can't pinpoint its birth, but I'm very happy to see the trend of the hyper-real action movie. Movies like the new Bond adventure (trailer just released) and the new Batman epic (Kevin Smith gives a short review calling it the Godfather II of comic book movies) take their source material seriously and deliver dark plots with powerful, hyper-real action scenes. These movies are extremely entertaining and feel both real and substantial.
For a while every action movie was shot in a Matrix-style "bullet time," or as an overly campy Batman and Robin style. At best, it turned the genre into an unrealistic video game and at worst it turned the genre into unwatchable fluff.
On a side note: For some reason I want to credit the first Borne movie for some of this. I do remember watching and being so excited to see action scenes shot in real time or even faster than real time instead of the slowed down Matrix style. That being said, the super shaky camera during non-action scenes needs to go. I get sea sick too easily.
A list of reasons I'm not eating four of the eleven best foods you aren’t eating.
- Beets taste like red death and stain clothing easily. (I spill a lot)
- I once paid six or seven dollars for a single 12 ounce bottle of Pomegranate juice. Never again my friends, it would be cheaper to drink gasoline.
- Bob Kovac once made me eat an entire can of sardines and dip them all in mustard. I didn't particularly like the sardines and mustard is the condiment of the devil. So the taste association for sardines is pretty damn bad.
- I'm pretty sure that Zachary Taylor died by eating frozen fruit, so frozen blueberries are off the list too.
