If you can read this, we survived the Mayan prediction… /s
Five By Five - 10 Feb 2012 | TheFuturesAgency (via mediafuturist)
- US Postal Service loses $3.3 bln in first quarter - via Reuters — The U.S. Postal Service reported a net loss of $3.3 billion in its first quarter (ending Dec 31st) with total mail volume falling 6.1%. USPS lost $5.1B last fiscal year, and is being blocked from its plan to close thousands of facilities and restructure its worker benefits by the US Congress. Expect USPS to hit its debt ceiling this fall, or sooner. I predict it will be renationalized, and radically restructured: imagine Fedex operating as the USPS, or ‘post offices’ in supermarkets
The Mail is dead…
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A bundled-up dog braves a street in Strasbourg, France. Muslim boys get free haircuts. Activists in Mexico City protest bullfighting by covering their bodies in red paint. This week’s best photojournalism
In today’s Tumblr Radar by theweekmagazine
If You're Reading This, You're One of the Lucky Ones [INFOGRAPHIC]
Even in the richest countries on the planet such as the U.S., not everyone has easy access to this cornucopia of connectivity, the Internet. The Internet is a tremendous growth engine, responsible for 21% of economic growth in the more advanced countries in the world, according to a McKinsey s…
![Digital Divide: If Youre Reading This, Youre One of the Lucky Ones [INFOGRAPHIC]](http://mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/125,digital-divide600.jpg)
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iPhone is not a Chipotle Burrito
Brilliant takedown by Mat Honan of a post on Slate entitled: Chipotle is Apple. Yes, there was an article on Slate on Thursday with that title. And yes, it was ridiculous.
Chipotle is fine. Compared to say, Taco Bell, it’s fantastic. But as Honan points out, if you include some of the best burrito joints in California, Chipotle wouldn’t be in the top 100. It’s still fast food.
Name a smartphone better than the iPhone.
You can’t because most of the other manufactured ones are junk. There are a few other good ones, but there are none made by small shops like the best burritos are. Totally different industries.
Writes Honan:
Finally, we should look at the build quality. As we we said before, the Chipotle burrito essentially ripped off the design of the Mission Burrito. However, in doing so, it got important details wrong. The Mission Burrito is eaten vertically, by standing it on one end, and unwrapping the aluminum foil at the top side as you work your way down. It is flawless. The Chipotle burrito, on the other hand, is typically put together without care or attention by those aforementioned low-paid workers. They typically stuff them so full that the ingredients come bursting out of the side, and it is impossible to eat the burrito vertically, as the good Lord intended burritos to be eaten. Were the iPhone built like a Chipotle burrito, its processor would be on the outside.
ROTFL! (via theclearlydope)
