IBM Names New CEO: Arvind Krishna, Red Hat Deal Mastermind, Replaces Rometty [Me/Light Reading]

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Minnie Mouse throws down. The cartoon shoes complete the scene.

I bought a 16-ounce bottle of Dr. Brommer’s liquid soap a couple of weeks ago. It is concentrated. I use about four drops to wash my hands a half-dozen times a day, and to wash my face once a day. At this rate, I expect to leave the soap to our grand-nieces and nephews, and their children after them.

Surprisingly, China actually benefits from the perception that its vendors are government stooges. [Ray Le Maistre/Light Reading]

It saddens me that it’s too late in my life for me to get a cool nickname, like “Ace.”

Boston-area natives Chris Evans, John Krasinski, Rachel Dratch and David “Big Papi” Ortiz in a wicked good commercial for Smart Park for the Hyundai Sonata.

PR pitch of the day: “Parents find sex education conversations easier than technology conversations.”

Because unlike USB connectors, with sex it’s easy to figure out which direction it should be facing when you stick it in.

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This trailer for "Spenser Confidential" looks great!

The Netflix movie coming March 6 stars Mark Wahlberg, Winston “Black Panther” Duke, and Alan Arkin. I wasn’t sure about the movie after reading on Wikipedia that it’s only very loosely based on one of the Spenser books and merely “uses the names of characters created by Robert B. Parker.” I’m a huge fan of the novels, and I was afraid this would be travesty. But the preview looks great. It has some hints of the novels and the Parker characters, and that’s all – but that’s enough.

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Juniper Returns to Growth – No Thanks to Service Providers lightreading.com My latest on Light Reading: Juniper returned to growth in its fourth financial quarter, but cloud and enterprise had to carry the stumbling service provider sector.

You look like you’re having a tough day so here is the Addams Family dancing to Joy Division’s “Disorder."

Cory Doctorow: Climate denial has destroyed the libertarian movement boingboing.net

The agony of weekend loneliness: β€˜I won’t speak to another human until Monday’ theguardian.com

Paula Cocozza: “For growing numbers of people the weekend is an emotional wilderness where interaction is minimal and social life non-existent.”

Photos Of 25 Dogs That Just Can’t Even

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Business Fashion, Australia, Summer, 1975.

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The iPad is fantastic but also disappointing daringfireball.net

Great short essay by John Gruber. Among other things, he perfectly captures why iPad split screen, slideover and multitasking confuse the jeebers out of me and I almost always don’t bother.

Ivanka tells donors she got her moral compass from her dad politico.com

Only Monday and we already have the headline of the week.