The latest ludicrous insanity by a big multinational? Dell selling gender-specifically. They opened up a website to spread the word about how women can best employ laptops. The answer to this hugely difficult, almost unsolvable riddle, Dell thinks, lies in the following: recipes, weight control, cooking. Oops, should have actually combined “recipes” and “cooking” into one since… wait… it’s all about one thing, actually. Ah, these people kill me! When will they stop attempting these differentiations that go way beyond the smallest grain? We all need computers.
To return to the problem: dear Dell, I suggest the following. You invent a time machine. A big one. You put your whole marketing department in there. Then you stuff the CEO and the other C’s on top. Then you send them to nineteenth-century Victorian England. I have a hunch that they will find some suitable partners for conversation there. Or possibly not, since marketing and the C’s probably know nothing about looking after small children, and knitting, and weaving, and playing the piano, and singing in church, and dressing properly for different occasions, and… Aaaarrrgh, I’m too tired for this. You get my drift; now git! Q. W3ary out. (via /.)
