… Avi of CaptainU fame for his three generous Singlehop Greenbacks, that let me scam The Office: Seasons One and Two. Look for him in a minor celebrity role coming up on The May Report.
… Doug of wicksite fame for his general awesomeness. (Hopefully this link will get you to the top of the Google search for wicksite!). By the way, Doug (and everyone else), check out this post from April… goes back to your obsession with your Feedburner stats.
I found this article in Psychology Today to be a really interesting set of conclusions from specific behavioral studies. The ten truths listed are:
If you are pressed for time, read #1, #3 and #4 (they are related), and #8.
If you are really pressed for time, just read #1.
Geek Squad, the lovable collection of nerds in every Best Buy, may see a shake-up shortly. The Consumerist ran a 3-month sting on their operations and captured video of Geek Squad agents stealing customers’ computers for porn, images, and music. Check out the link for a video of the agents at work. From the article:
This is not just an isolated incident, according to reports from Geek Squad insiders alleging that Geek Squad techs are stealing porn, images, and music from customer’s computers in California, Texas, New Jersey, Virginia and elsewhere. Our sources say that some Geek Squad locations have a common computer set up where everyone dumps their plunder to share with the other technicians.
Can you blame them? Maybe this can be considered as the personal “tax” of having a strange man in white shirt and skinny black tie come into your home to fix your computer…
After 15 years, the ducks will finally land.
29,000 plastic yellow ducks, blue turtles and green frogs broke free from a cargo ship 15 years ago.
Since then they have travelled 17,000 miles, floating over the site where the Titanic sank, landing in Hawaii and even spending years frozen in an Arctic ice pack.
And now they are heading straight for Britain. At some point this summer they are expected to be spotted on beaches in South-West England.
The ducks have traveled as far as Alaska and the Artic circle. In fact,
So precious to science are they that the US firm that made them is offering a £50 bounty for finding one.
See the map below for their path.
The Simpons Movie will be released July 27 (I give the series one more season, tops, after the movie). 7-11 and Fox are engaged in a fascinating promotion.
Over the weekend, 7-Eleven Inc. turned a dozen stores into Kwik-E-Marts, the fictional convenience stores of “The Simpsons” fame, in the latest example of marketers making life imitate art.
Those stores and most of the 6,000-plus other 7-Elevens in North America will sell items that until now existed only on television: Buzz Cola, KrustyO’s cereal and Squishees, the slushy drink knockoff of Slurpees.
An interesting photoset is here.
The video creators at Google Apps love their dodgeball. This screenshot was taken from their video demonstrating Google Apps.
Something is amiss.
Organic City guy is playing a hell of a lot of dodgeball! 2PM Monday, 3PM Wednesday, and 5PM Friday. Most notably, he moves from his dodgeball game on Monday fluidly, back-to-back, to a supplier meeting to plan the expansion.
Busted!
I have signed up for Tech Cocktail 5, the 5th gathering of technology entrepreneurs and professionals in Chicago. Note that this is the 5th gathering in the past year of its kind. TC4 sold-out within 24 hours (although sold-out is not the right term – the event has free admission and free drinks).
If you are at all interested in web companies and other high-tech endeavors, I highly encourage you to attend.
(Note: for those of you who find this kind of event knee-knocking, I suggest you don’t attend…)
From the Becker-Posner blog (this one from Richard Posner):
Medieval Christianity forbade the charging of interest on the ground that it was unnatural for money to increase (as by lending $100 at a 10 percent interest rate so that at the end of the year the $100 has grown to $110), because unlike pregnancy there was no mechanism by which an inanimate object such as money could reproduce itself. Behind this superstition lay undoubtedly a hostility to commercial society, which persists today in some quarters of the Muslim world; Islam forbids charging interest although substitutes are tolerated. The concern with lending has persisted into modernity even in Western societies. Usury laws, which set a ceiling on interest rates, and the Truth in Lending Act, which requires detailed disclosure of annualized interest rates in consumer loans, are examples of this concern.
From the annals of Stupid Genetics, here’s a new one.
The child raised as the eldest in a family has a slightly higher intelligence quotient, on average, than younger siblings.
Found here (it’s all over the Internet, so your sources may vary).