Archive for the ‘Musings’ Category
Monday, January 21st, 2008
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Curiosity Killed the Cat . . .
What if you clicked on links without care?
Eventually, you'll click on a semi-relevant link that will make you forget what you are supposed to be doing.
It's not exactly mindless surfing, as you had set out to accomplish a task online.
As you ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
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Football and the Sunday Comics, ahhhh…
I don't know if this will be a regular feature here, but I just have to share this one with you.
(Thanks StumbleUpon!)
Project: Start to Finish?
Project Life Cycle
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
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If you ever read Consumer Reports, you may remember their reader-rated movie guide.
Because of the subjectivity of cinema, Consumer Reports couldn't very well put a batch of DVDs in a blender and analyze the slurry for quality.
The readers' recommendations served as the social proof that drives ...
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."- Henry Ford
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Henry the First
From an early age, many of us are programmed to believe that certain things are hard to accomplish.
Whether it is mastery of a musical instrument, penning poetry ...
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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
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Specialists in sub-nuclear particle research have discovered a new particle of energy.
The particle, one millionth the size of an iota of information, has been dubbed the retentron.
It travels at one third the speed of light, which is twice as slow as attention, its antimatter counterpart.
Dr. Rip V. ...
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
I was regaling my wife with a story from my childhood.
My cousin, Todd, (no relation to my partner Rock the Todd)
told one of those long, never-ending pointless stories about a thirsty donkey in the desert.
Of course, time had muddied my recollection.
The story sort of lost something in the ...
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
In philosophy, where I learned about fallacies, circulus in probando was not mentioned.
Would that be because it is impossible to define circular reasoning without referring to circles or reasoning?
Pay no attention to me, I dropped that class.
I want to talk about the illogical beauty of words.
Let's play a game.
Synhomonyms
Create a ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
How would you like to be the person who discovered the mental map to our reading manner?
Every day, thousands of messages are misread, misinterpreted and mistaken.
If you knew what triggered the brain to see something else, you'd be on the path to learning how to manipulate those triggers. I've created ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
During a forum posting contest on Entrepreneurdad.com,
I got the idea to write a riveting, eight-part mini-autobiography.
Justin Powell, the site's owner, enjoyed the series and kindly linked to it from his home page.
Now, for the first time on the web, (I checked), I present the complete series in one place.
Click here ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
How many kinds of people buy stuff?
It helps to think of consumers as bird-brains. No, I'm kidding.
This is just a way to talk about our customers without trotting out the same old boring terminology.
Jump in!
Homing
This pragmatic person is the second most common consumer. Think meat and potatoes.
You can ...
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