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Missing the glaring similarities 24 Mar 2009 | 04:17 am
It’s sometimes surprising just how narrow the focus of some people can be, when they compare themselves, or a group they identify with, to people who aren’t them. People will tend to expect others to...
Yes, that’s why you’re here 24 Mar 2009 | 02:24 am
The head of the cleaning company in my office brought in a new worker with him today. While she was cleaning the floor, and emptying the garbage bins, in our manufacturing room I heard her complainin...
Pushing more impressive-sounding names 17 Mar 2009 | 06:59 am
Everyone wants to feel good about themselves, and marketers want people to feel good about their products. So it’s understandable that people will tend to present things in the most impressive and pos...
Flat Earth – the second largest geographical method in the world 24 Feb 2009 | 08:32 am
It’s very easy to be the second-largest anything in the world, when the first largest group is defined as everything that’s actually relevant, and you’re defined as everything else. A very large foru...
Canada is not part of the united states 29 Oct 2008 | 03:51 am
Weird Tales are offering a free PDF copy of their July-August 2008 edition, as a promotion and a way for people to properly sample the magazine without having to gamble on the money to buy it. The su...
Fast police response 6 Oct 2008 | 12:01 pm
The police, both here and in many (most? all?) other countries in the world, provide a short “emergency” phone number. The idea being that it will be easy to remember, work from all phones in all loca...
Strange people by the side of the road 8 Sep 2008 | 11:31 pm
Last night I saw two cases of cars stuck by the side of the road, and in both cases the drivers behaved very oddly. Well, the second behaved oddly, the first was just a stupid idiot. Right at the top...
Gasoline of the beast 8 Sep 2008 | 08:09 am
It’s pretty much a nonsense post, but I found it amusing, so why not bother the rest of humanity with it, right? Last night I passed by the gas station to fill out my car’s tank. The price of gasoli...
This is why you should let someone experienced do surveys. Or, well, not. 2 Jul 2008 | 07:58 am
Surveys are complex. There is a lot that you can do wrong. Actually, looking at many surveys around, there is a lot that is done wrong. Time after time. Sometime it’s the big stuff. Sometimes small. ...
If you can’t handle bidirectional text, don’t show bidirectional text 2 Jul 2008 | 07:03 am
Some ad companies think they can get better results by targeting the ads to the viewers. Some strategies are matching the ad with the viewed page, while others try to target the audience in different ...
