Our pick of the intertubes for the day:
What would a Microsoft store look like? In their continuing state of obliviousness, Microsoft are planning to open their own stores ala Apple. eWEEK’s Paul Connolly has a nicely drawn and amusing cartoon slideshow of what it might look like.
What cookbooks really teach us. The Economist looks at the humble cookbook, which, they say, offers so much more than simply instructions on how to make a recipe: “Cookbooks promise to effect a kind of domestic alchemy. Although seemingly straightforward, they hold out the hope of liberation from a routine of leftover chicken and from children who refuse to eat food of any colour except white.”
War and peace and zombies. io9 has found a correlation between social upheaval and an increase in zombie movie production. “World War II, Vietnam, and the current Iraq War are all followed by a zombie rush at theaters.” Braaaiiiiins.
Is the recession affecting rappers? It depends who you ask, according to this XXLmag article. “I probably cut back on some of my spending habits, you know what I’m sayin’?” says Young Jeezy, while Tru Life believes, “Oh nah, that shit [recession] ain’t touched me not a bit. It ain’t a game man.” But for Buckshot:
There is no such thing as a recession, the recession is an illusion. And people like Buckshot and Steve Jobs and Bill Clinton and Bill Gates and all of these other people that deal with corporate business, we all know that it’s an illusion, it’s a scare tactic and it’s meant to do what it’s been doing to people.
Stop buying what you have no interest in. That means if you and your whole neighborhood supports and buys Timbs, don’t do that unless you own stock in Timberland. If you buy Louis Vuitton then buy stocks in Louis Vuitton, so when you wearing Louis Vuitton at least you made $15 or $500 or $5000.
Obama sushi. Yep:
