I've heard this quote in several forms with multiple attributions, so I had to look it up. Via [nancyprager.wordpress.com] I discovered this great critical passage by T.S. Elliot that's apropos to Springsteen' comments:

I always thought the Best Buy headquarters (Richfield, MN) looked a bit like a sandcrawler fleet.

Bingo.

These designers have no fucking clue what a load path is. There is good reason why the diamond frame with a fat downtube is and will always be paramount.

Get Dean Kaman on this, ASAP.

But it is your introduction. The interview was conducted in 1984, the same year the Mac was introduced.

Not would: would've.

We've been bamboozled!

I love the imagery.

I just learned yesterday that this is called a spindle diagram. [en.wikipedia.org]

It's just like selling cheap milk at the corner gas station; it gets people into the store. In this case, the App Store (® pending).

/slow clap/

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@ Stacky Botrus

Footnotes? In a Gizmodo article? I love it!

Interestin.

@adhir: Black satin paint. Not flat. Not eggshell. Not glossy. SATIN.

Good question! Why not name the 52 weeks after playing cards? For example, I was born Monday, the Queen of Clubs, 1977.

Maybe we should lower the Earth's orbit to where it has an exact 364 day period. Oooh, nix that. We already have enough global warming problems.

While we're at it, could we correct the Gregorian calendar so that it includes the year Zero and the year Zero BC? Starting the calendar in the year One really screwes up the rollover between centuries or millennia.