Dr Wingnut

Day: July 18, 2008

  • Waste time

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    I’ll be honest with you, I love Jesus, but I drink a little bit….  Gladys tells it like it isSpicy language (about language) from the late, great George CarlinIf you missed ’em, several years of Internet memesA clever take on a familiar stereo controlMusic, hand-drawn cover art, and stories behind 80s-era mix tapesA drastic street…

  • P & G — Serving your needs since 1837

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    The article includes a case study of Febreze, a furniture spray that almost failed until Procter & Gamble figured out how to manipulate customers into making it part of their daily routine. Great quote from a P&G psychologist:> we realized we needed to create new products.  So we began> thinking about how to create habits…

  • Patriotism

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    A defense of patriotism is an attack on the Enlightenment; a defense of all group phenomena related or analogous to patriotism is also an attack on the Enlightenment.George Kateb, Patriotism and Other Mistakes, page 4