This is kind of old news, but nonetheless amusing: McDonald’s Germany decided that, after 36 years, Germans probably had figured out how to pronounce the chain’s signature sandwich, and that spelling it phonetically in German would no longer be necessary. OK, well, officially it has to with “global unified branding”—The “FishMäc” has also become the…
Month: October 2007
Voice Updates to Facebook
Privately held SpinVox, which has developed technology to convert voicemail to text messages or e-mail, on Thursday will announce a new service that allows users of Facebook, Jaiku and Twitter social networks to dictate updates to their profiles by calling a specially assigned number. Read the full New York Times article This could win “Most Useless Invention…
More L-Train Service
[S]tarting in December, more frequent service will roll across the line, which traverses several explosively growing, “hot” neighborhoods in Northwest Brooklyn. During the weekday morning rush hour, L trains will run approximately 3.5 minutes apart, instead of every 4 minutes. Manhattan-bound train trips will increase from 15 train trips to 17 train trips. Read the Brooklyn…
Tighter Squeeze Thanks to Cab Driver Strike
Whenever I take the L-Train in the morning, I expect claustrophobic conditions such as those in the picture to the right. However, whenever the cab drivers strike, the packing extends to the last part of “Option A” for my commute, the E-Train. Drivers were protesting plans put in motion by Mayor Michael Bloomberg under which…
The Lid at Starbucks
When is Starbucks going to redesign their lid? I complained about this over a year ago and mentioned the specific location of a Starbucks where I was burned, spawning a tirade of hate mail by that location’s baristas. Since then, I have been burned and stained by Starbucks coffee on several occasions. Dunkin Donuts has…