Category: Social/Environmental

I thought that this picture, by Phillip Toledano, was an outstanding example of the end of customer service, idea number 2 that self-service has forever changed the way that services are delivered.It really epitomizes the fact that most self-service makes you feel like you’re standing out in the wind with no one at the other…

George Bush keeps forgetting that he only gets to live for a little while in the White House, and that he’s not the permanent occupant.  There’s an excellent essay about our schizophrenic behavior towards our President because we keep forgetting that he’s not Royalty, as exposed by the interchange between George Bush and Jim Webb.My…

“Stop the war against…”, and then in a white square apparently pasted over something else, “whoever is next.”via email from Bob Savage, Thr, 03 Jul 2008 11:44:26 -0700

There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class.  One day while the class was in the lab, the Prof noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.The professor asked the young man what was the…

Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only had an 8th grade education?  Well, check this out.  Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895?This is the eighth grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, Kansas, It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society…

If you were wondering how much it’s costing you to run your TV when it looks like it’s off, you can use an energy meter to watch the idle consumption.  A condition sometimes called, “vampire power consumption.”  I ran across this homemade do-it-yourself energy meter, the EnerJar.  but if you’re not handy with a soldering…