via Neat-O-Rama I’ve been meaning to re-watch “Flight of the Navigator” for a while…

Working night shift at the building at       in       it’s not uncommon to see people hiding out smoking glass pipes (highly doubt they’re hiding out to smoke tobacco) and engaging in prostitution in the back alley when I go out for a cigarette break. All very true – just saw a male crackhead performing [...]

My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks. – President Barack Obama [to financial industry CEO's] I’m going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. – Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEOdiscussing Google’s CEO Undertaker, with his Mickey Mouse tattoos and his thirty-three pound head, [...]

Think fast and name three things that are wrong with this advertisement: Alright, time’s up. What did you determine? Unfortunately… no, it doesn’t matter. In the time it took you to look at that advertisement a vital blood vessel in the left hemisphere of your brain spontaneously burst – you may not be immediately aware [...]

via Neurophilosophy There is a metaphor lurking in here somewhere…

One might argue that information services (and clients) have followed an evolution not unlike that of competing organisms in the wild. At first it was enough to simply provide the most accurate and direct data possible, just as it was once sufficient for an organism to simply acquire nutrients and reproduce. When organisms began deriving [...]

Most therapists discourage the use of extreme terms. For example, a wife would be challenged when she says, “he never spends time with the kids,” unless she can prove that the term never is factually accurate. More often than not such a term isn’t entirely on target and, moreover, it often generates defensiveness on the [...]

But most of us aren’t snake oil salesmen, and don’t want to be. Most of us want to get readers to buy or take action, but we also recognize that the $3000 home-study firefighting course probably isn’t the best choice for the elderly widow down the street whose house is in foreclosure. So where’s the [...]

Our poster boy is here with a serious lesson: this is why you should always de-fang / validate / sanitize / homogenize / scrub / lather-rinse-and-repeat all of your oh-so-precious input before interacting with it. Don’t let yourself become this guy… Image stolen from AdScam (who stole it from somewhere else, no doubt) … or [...]

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