10 Worst Mascot’s in the NCAA The Loyal Opposition of Paul Krugman :: I know this is probably the most linked article on the web today but it is a great article if you haven’t read it. Here are some of his best quips over the last couple of years. The article does explain why [...]
March, 2009:
Eat Your Own Dogfood
I was reading Thomas Hawk’s excellent post on how the CEO and the marketing chief of Yahoo! doesn’t use Flickr when I clicked on a link to this great e-mail from 2003 by Bill Gates over his frustration in trying to download a piece of Microsoft software. It goes beyond technology. I keep thinking of [...]
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Bill Kinnon is writing about the Narcissistic Personality Disorder and church leaders. Narcissistic Personality Disorder is not simply about taking normal egoism to extremes. NPD is one of fewer than a dozen personality disorders described by the American Psychiatric Association. These differ from the major mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia and manic-depression, which are believed [...]
Blogger needs a template design competition
I have come to love Blogger’s simplicity and stability but it’s templates are looking horrible and dated. Most of it’s templates come from their relaunch with Google and since then, there has not been a single new template offered up. If Typepad can give out new templates, you would think that Google could managed to [...]
Photos from Chicago
Well I finally uploaded all of my photos from Chicago online. Each one of the photos takes you to the photoset on Flickr where they now live. This was taken inside of Bloomingdale’s in Chicago. A second after I took this photo I was approached by a pleasant staff who told me that photos weren’t [...]
20 Things That Have Happened Since The Chicago Cubs Last Won The World Series
Radio was invented; Cub fans got to hear their team lose. TV was invented; Cub fans got to see their team lose. Baseball added 14 teams; Cub fans got to see AND hear their team lose to more teams. George Burns celebrated his 10th, 20th, 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th, 70th, 80th, 90th and 100th birthdays. [...]
Contextless Links
Homes in Windsor, Ontario are selling for less than a new car :: Mark Imeson, president of the Windsor-Essex County Real Estate Board, says he has seen houses selling for just $25,000. He blames the low prices on the rising number of so-called power-of-sale properties, which have been taken back by the bank and turned [...]
