Okay, I finally found the three minutes required to set a Take Five a Day FLICKR Pool page – now I’m exhausted so I’m going to sleep here by the pool – maybe it’s the 15 Gaucho Fizzes … So not too much splashing and as the sign says, “Welcome To Our Ool… Notice there’s [...]

“Starting September 16, we are lowering the listing fee for all items sold via the fixed price format to only 35 cents, and a special rate of only 5 cents through the end of the year for Buy It Now™ fixed price listings in the Media categories (Books, Video Games, Music and DVDs/Movies) using pre-filled [...]

With Movie Moments moving to Target, it looks like the 3-packs will absorb some of the CARS scheduled for Movie Moments. So while it won’t be exclusively racers, pit crew & crew chiefs going forward – it does still have a Piston Cup leaning … What hasn’t changed, Cases D, E, F & G. They [...]

© Copyright Disney/Pixar Collecting CARS is nirvana and we’re all a giddy as schoolboys and schoolgirls – life could not be finer, full of rainbows, 32-oz steaks and free parking … well, at least for the first 3 days … after that, we tend to get a little grouchier. So, if collecting CARS or buying [...]

When in LA, you can also check out the Pixar CARS Exhibit at the Petersen Auto Museum … “remclsydney” was kind enough to send us pics of his recent visit to LA and the exhibit … Too bad, you can’t pick up one of these in the gift shop. Though the airline might just charge [...]

The Motor Speedway of the South Piston Cup race set continues to roll like a real life Katamari Damacy – and like the game, now at this level, it is just rollin’ & sucking in people right and left and no matter how you struggle, you are in the big ball and there is no [...]

As a marketing guy, people’s behaviors, crowd behavior and mobs fascinate me – and of course, the Motor Speedway of the South has turned out to be more fascinating than most – you can go all the way back when the rumors starting percolating, then the unauthorized photo leaks and then of course, the rumors [...]

Gigaom sums up a McKinsey Quarterly feature on Brad Bird’s management style & thoughts at Pixar. Steve Jobs hired him, says Bird, because after three successes (Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, and Toy Story 2) he was worried Pixar might struggle to stay innovative. Jobs told him: “The only thing we’re afraid of is complacency—feeling [...]

It would be hilarious if it weren’t so sad. NPD’s report that Apple Mac’s market share of $1,000+ personal computer is 66% is not really subject to interpretation – except apparently for the last dying gasp of PC fans. Here’s how this works. Of the people who had and were willing to spend $1,000 on [...]

Oh, is that buying the Motor Speedway of the South thing today? Tick, tick, tick … Are you in or out? Here’s a song to listen to while you decide. “CarsMama” notes now all the individual CARS are now available in high res mode at the Club. Be sure and report in after the zero [...]