{"id":600,"date":"2007-07-19T18:37:46","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T23:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=600"},"modified":"2007-07-19T18:38:31","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T23:38:31","slug":"hang-out-with-your-mail-poolside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/07\/19\/hang-out-with-your-mail-poolside\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hang out with your mail poolside&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bip\/18242061\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/13\/18242061_5ce0b09533_t_d.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"No poop by Claudecf\" align='right' hspace='10' vspace='10' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTechCrunch suggests that 3D Mailbox may be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/07\/18\/3d-mailbox-worst-app-ever\/\">&#8220;Worst. App. Ever.&#8221;<\/a>  The promo video is certainly one of the most atrocious and sexist pieces of marketing crap I&#8217;ve seen in a while (and given the level of marketing, this is saying something).  While the idea of feeding my spam to sharks is mildly amusing, hearing them promise that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYour e-mail pulses with fun and excitement like never before.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>was enough to induce serious hurlage.<\/p>\n<p>Good gracious &#8211; aren&#8217;t there enough <em>real<\/em> problems that need attention?<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/video\/\" title=\"Video\">Video<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/09\/11\/you-have-to-either-laugh-or-cry-and-ill-help-you-do-both\/\" title=\"You have to either laugh or cry (and I&#8217;ll help you do both) (11 Sep 08)\">You have to either laugh or cry (and I&#8217;ll help you do both)<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/04\/06\/you-folks-are-super-generous\/\" title=\"You folks are super generous! (6 Apr 07)\">You folks are super generous!<\/a> (2)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TechCrunch suggests that 3D Mailbox may be the &#8220;Worst. App. Ever.&#8221; The promo video is certainly one of the most atrocious and sexist pieces of marketing crap I&#8217;ve seen in a while (and given the level of marketing, this is saying something). While the idea of feeding my spam to sharks is mildly amusing, hearing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/07\/19\/hang-out-with-your-mail-poolside\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Hang out with your mail poolside&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[876],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-9G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":882,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/11\/30\/yes-we-can-improve-the-security-of-our-e-communications\/","url_meta":{"origin":600,"position":0},"title":"Yes we can (improve the security of our e-communications)","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"30 Nov 08","format":false,"excerpt":"Instead of preventing Obama from using e-mail and his Blackberry, we should use this as an opportunity to move the whole country forward in terms of the security of our electronic communications.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computing","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/computing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":412,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/12\/18\/evil-marketing-ray-guns-are-eating-my-brain\/","url_meta":{"origin":600,"position":1},"title":"Evil marketing ray guns are eating my brain!","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"18 Dec 06","format":false,"excerpt":"pink Christmas, originally uploaded by ahyc. 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