Coca Cola is going to introduce a 120-flavor choice dispenser … that’s right, not 8 or even 16 flavors but 120!
“The device uses higher-concentrate ingredients to serve up to 120 beverages in the same amount of space as the current eight-valve machine. Consumers will be able to choose from a wide variety of brands — [...]

Even Snapple is switching out from High Fructose Corn Syrup to real sugar or even better, real cane sugar as us here on the West Coast can get the REAL THING – Coca Cola made with cane sugar at Costco.
Corn Syrup is okay as a gasoline substitute but in our drinks? It’s got that [...]

Microsoft is just NOT a consumer company.
It’s Oracle, it’s Cisco, it’s Caterpillar Construction … all fine and perhaps even great companies but NOT consumer companies.
It’s company culture and the people that they hire. It’s a company built on hounding you until you sign the maintenance contract. The difference in an enterprise or government account is [...]

Here is the link to the master list.
It’s a quasi-widget but it requires a lot of clicking and scrolling – I guess it would be too simple just to provide an alphabetized checklist?
Of course, it seems like the FDA was asleep at the switch just as the SEC seems to be asleep at the switch [...]

As NPR is reporting and as you can no doubt can see at the pumps that SURPRISE, as Crude Oil hovers below $40 a barrel, we are paying MORE for gasoline – about the price when Crude Oil was around $70 a barrel … of course, the refiners have a lot of excuses, blah, blah, [...]

At least, they did back in the 1970’s it appears. If you don’t believe me, feast your eyes on this:
I am not sure which issue this is from as I stumbled across it on the internets and that location didn’t mention it. Bummer. I think the Editor-in-Chief at DC back in the [...]

From Jeaks, our friend in Australia …
You would have heard about the fires in Victoria, Australia. Whole towns destroyed and the current tally is 181 confirmed dead. Expected to be at least 300. At least 100 from one town (of 500) are expected to be confirmed as dead.

I certainly wish Steve Jobs health and wellness for years to come. I couldn’t help but laugh though at the editorial cartoon I discovered on the Time.com website. Enjoy!

Recently went to the FANCY FOOD SHOW at the SF Moscone Convention Center where a 1,000 upscale food companies were attempting to sell to retailers … In a continuing series, here are my thoughts …

From a company called MACOR, it tasted pretty much like I thought it would – slightly vicous – nothing real interesting. [...]

The Costco Kirkland Lasagna is a good solid lasagna … it’s not amazing but a pretty good deal considering most restaurants probably serve you the same thing but charge you $11 a slice …
However – clearly, mostly morons buy it …

That’s right, on the back of the packaging sheet are instructions on how [...]