Category: General

Contrary to Joel Stein’s belief, in his commentary in todays Star-Tribune, that this year’s race was, “the lamest Tour de France ever.”  Mrs. Wingnut and I thought that this actually was the most interesting of the three that we had watched.  There was no clear leader until the last couple of stages, because it kept…

The article includes a case study of Febreze, a furniture spray that almost failed until Procter & Gamble figured out how to manipulate customers into making it part of their daily routine. Great quote from a P&G psychologist:> we realized we needed to create new products.  So we began> thinking about how to create habits…

In reading Michael Saine’s column in the August DDJ today he talks about Marshall McLuhan’s forecast that “The age of automation is going to be the age of ‘do it yourself’.”  Quite timely since I was talking with one of the other project managers yesterday who was typing up a storm on a document when…

In the last couple of days I heard a term during a Tour de France interview with a rider that I had never heard before, “road furniture,” referring to medians, roundabouts, and other obstacles in the road.It’s a great term, and I can’t believe that I’d never heard it before.

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Now Bush has been planning to invade Iran, and asked Congress for a finding to give him the money to do it?  What the hell is going on in Washington, DC?  Do we really need to increase the amount of conflict in the Middle East?It’s time to stop this stupid war now!