Not so mixed vegetables

Technically, there were other vegetables but the mix wasn’t all that equitable:

Louis, annoyed at inaccurate depictions of food on labels, decided to sort, count, and weigh the vegetables in his can of Always Save brand canned vegetables. The results? Uh, not so mixed.

Here’s his tally:

6 peas, 3 grams
2 lima beans, 1.5 grams
13 corn, 3 grams
1 celery, .25 grams
6 green beans, 2.5 grams
109 carrots, 146 grams
99 potatoes, 149 grams

People wants to watch movies but are playing less games

Unemployed huddling over movies and cutting back on games?

A Sharp Downturn for the Video Game Industry

Netflix defies recession

It’s sorta interesting that Palm and Microsoft both target Apple with the same message

I can understand when someone goes shopping for a laptop they may want to consider a laptop priced at $699 vs. one from Apple or a netbook priced at $299 vs. a Windows laptop without considering the overall value (btw, do they know what value is when it comes to a PC v. Mac decision?)

If people are willing to spend $299 for a smartphone and then $60+ a month on a data plan, are they concerned about price/costs that much more than they are about value?

The goal of Microsoft ads

Is to get Apple to acknowledge that they exist?

Two weeks ago we got a call from the Apple legal department saying, hey — this is a true story — saying, “Hey, you need to stop running those ads, we lowered our prices.” They took like $100 off or something. It was the greatest single phone call in the history that I’ve ever taken in business. I did cartwheels down the hallway.

– Microsoft COO Kevin Turner recalls a recent chat he had with Apple legal about Microsoft’s “Laptop Hunters” ads

Talk about setting a low bar. What an idiot!

What large firm will be the first to topple?

My money is on …. SAP? Citi? Microsoft? US Air? Exxon?

The topple rate is a measure of how the rank of large firms on return of assets changes over time.  The topple rate has increased by about 60% over the past forty years (ignoring the recent blip up).  What this means is that the firms on top are less likely to stay on top today than in the past – the recent blip up indicates the upheaval in firm rankings during the current recession.

Walt Mossberg answers reader mail

Another sign that Microsoft has no strategy of its own

Apple even needs scope out the locations for them:

Microsoft To Open Retail Stores Next To Apple Stores

Aiyyyeeeee.

Next Ballmer discovers where Steve Jobs take a dump and follows him. Crap, crap, crap.

Turner said Microsoft’s stores will not mimic the white, holy aesthetic of Apple’s, but rather it will innovate with the new stores, according to attendees tweeting the conference. He provided no details of how exactly the stores would look.

This?