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What you want, when you want it, as often as you want it – without cable or satellite … it’s easier than ever. Just don’t tell me it’s about saving money.

So, BP gets called out for Photoshopping an image of their Command Center for use on their website. I’ve seen two primary, polar reactions: 1″It’s no surprise coming from those no-good, lying, reckless, corner-cutting, profit-hoarding goons!” and 2) “What’s the big deal? They’ve obviously got bigger fish to fry!” (or fish to slick, as it were). I’ll take a minute to stand more toward the middle, but clearly on one side.

Toyota must have research that suggests their problems with perceived safety and reliability are over – or that they were never too deep. If not, I’m considering them lost in the wilderness.

Amazon hit up Ithyle for these fun and insanely stylish ads for their Kindle reader. Too bad they didn’t do it a year or two back. Is it too little, too late?

In hindsight, I’m glad my Facebook news feed was “hijacked” by a fallacious video tag. We owe it to ourselves to consider every now and again how our fellow human beings are thinking and dreaming differently.

Over the few years I’ve been building my Flickr photo stream, I’ve received eight or ten requests from proper publishers seeking permission to use one or more of these photos. Several of them are web-based guides. One was a publisher of lake, river and stream maps. One was a publisher of books and videos about weird and interesting things across this great nation.

I’d forgotten about that last one … until yesterday.

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to see Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired magazine and author of “The Long Tail” and “Free,” present an idea he’s been selling around: the tablet computer can save magazine publishing.

For fun and for the love I have for my neighborhood, I started a Facebook “Community Page.” It’s called Ivywild Neighborhood – Colorado Springs. Please check it out and consider clicking “Like.”

A South Korean couple let their 3-month-old girl die of starvation, neglecting her in favor of raising a virtual child in a nearby internet cafe. Isolated incident or microcosmic glance into the fallout of racing into all things high-speed, digital and virtual? I think it’s more the former, but with overtones of the latter. Regardless, this is a new low at high speed.

Michael Jeffries, long-time Abercrombie & Fitch CEO, took a $4M payment in exchange for limiting his personal use of the corporate jet. New limit: just $200,000 in personal use per year. That’s limiting? OK, what did “unlimited” look like?