American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

About Yesterday

You may have noticed yesterday we posted about the history of April Fools Day. I included the quote:
Every year on April 1 the unwitting, the gullible and the plain stupid are caught out by tall stories or practical jokes. But why do people play these jokes at all?
and followed that up saying I would [...]

The Power to Surprise

That is the new tagline for a proposed Kia collaboration with Nintendo. Today just seems to bringing us a number of interesting collaborations. Google and Virgin seems like the type of collaboration that could end up taking over the world (or in this case Mars). Kia and Nintendo, this one just seems like a bad [...]

Too Bad WestJet is in Canada

WestJet announced today that they are upgrading their planes. They will be eliminating their overhead storage area to replace it with sleeper compartments.
While this may be a pain when it comes to checking luggage, you know WestJet is thinking more about the money. A few more compartments per plane means a few more tickets sold [...]

Google’s New Projects

From Google we have two new releases today, Virgile and Google Custom Time.
Virgile is a joint venture between Google and Virgin (you know, that mega-company that is working on taking over the world… and possibly more from the looks of things) that looks to the future with a plan to Colonize Mars. It seems pretty [...]

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