Category: General

Time magazine also had an exclusive excerpt from a new book: The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse, by Greg Easterbrook (Random House, 355 pages)The points he made are very interesting; I think I shall have to read the bookThe revolution of satistifed expectations — Most people judge their well-being not…

In preparing to be host of next summer’s Olympics, Athens has faced the usual hurdles, like finding enough hotel space and finishing construction on the venues.  But some less conventional problems have cropped up too. Initially, the government planned to license extra brothels to meet surging demand during the Games (at the Sydney Olympics[2000], 10,000…

In the 15 December 2003 issue of Time magazine; in the interview column; the interviewer asked Oprah Winfrey the following question: "What do you think of your boy Dr. Phil’s diet book?"Man alive!  The question seems a little insensitive given the good doctors age; let alone the historical racial undertones of the word "boy."

I took the IQ Test at Emode and scored 138.  Does that mean I’m an idiot; or not?

You can make your own snowflake. Dr. Wingnut’s snowflake looks like this:

I saw the following Windsor Canadian ad on a billboard this morning on my way to work.  "Save for a special day (like Tuesday)"  Talk about putting yourself squarely into the commonplace camp of the banal.

I’m getting the feeling that the rest of the non-IT world is getting tired with the offshore-outsourcing trend.  People appear to be getting tired of dealing with corporations that only care about the money.  The rise of truly crappy customer service appears to be pissing people off, and they are blaming companies for putting the…