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When iPhones are not efficient

Am I losing my mind or shouldn’t my iPhone have sent me up 1st Street? HT: Kyak

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Smart Phones and Dog Doo

When handheld devices first came out people weren’t yet ‘trained’ to walk blindly down a city sidewalk and I would imagine a very small percent of those early adopters found themselves stepping in dog...

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Is StubHub a lagging indicator?

I wrote about the potential utility for StubHub as prediction here. At the time, the NY Mets were stinking up the field and certain tickets were as low as $3. Then Terry Collins got ejected from a...

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Canadian Elections and Twitter

Bin Laden and our own economic woes are overshadowing this — but no is talking about the trouncing the conservative party dished out in the recent Canadian election. My [Canadian] friend Taryn: Do you...

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Unsettling Medical Statistics of the Day

Imagine if 95% of people didn’t know they had… Via Philly.com Celiac is an autoimmune disease that afflicts about one in every 133 Americans. But an estimated 95 percent of people who have the disease...

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They get you with the fees…

This seems to be a questionable business practice…also, where’s my sharpie?

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Anyone know if this place still exists?

Perhaps I should have been making a different gesture…

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Is Fred Wilpon Smarter Than We All Think?

Probably not.  Okay, definitely not.  But this quote from the Daily News did get me thinking about personal incentives and some behavioral thinking. Daily News article… Wilpon didn’t get off as easy....

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Blogger and Commenter Intelligence

In a fit of annoyance I previously made a graph (and drank an iced coffee) showing the level of arrogance on extremely intelligent blogs–see below.  I never posted it because it is more like some of...

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Michele Bachman has 28 kids (and only one L in her name)

I’ve been consumed with work and other matters but I suspect one of the major networks must have raised this issue…

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