It was tough resisting temptation to write a lurid headline using the phrase “DNA” and hanging on the walls but I resisted – damn this aging into respectability 😉 For $300+, DNA11 will take your DNA and make it into art … or your fingerprints … so you can stare and ponder your existence here […]

From CNN.com, the clues get 21st century – a diary on eBay and more clues: • Claims of distress calls heard thousands of miles away resurface • Evidence of castaways found on remote South Pacific atoll All very interesting – sounds like it’s time for another Hollywood movie.

Mite-y nice! This little blighter is an itch mite magnified 300x (Eye of Science). This photo shows it on human skin snacking away. The bad news is this little bugger causes scabies. The good news is that affliction is treatable. I don’t know whether to be more horrified that this little thing can be crawling […]

Well, presuming your fantasy is to run a local TV station … virtually – then your prayers are answered (Mac & PC) … It’s the imaginatively titled sim: TV STATION MANAGER. Or if those small market stakes are not high enough for you – how about buying and selling Spielberg & Rupert? Are you smart […]

It’s a whole new world for managers & marketers. Just as Gen Xers are so not like the Baby Boomers, neither are the current and next generation in terms of marketing & managing them. From the CoCo Times: “This is a different kind of worker,” said consultant Bruce Tulgan, “They are not going to come […]

If you are a major marketer and you are looking to analyze trends in ad spending across the major consumer magazines you can forget getting monthly data from the PIB. To the unitiated, the Publishers Information Bureau (PIB) has published monthly data on total ad spending in the major magazines each month and is a […]

UPDATE: The bloke has done it! According to this report over at Boing-Boing, he has sold his flat for a whopping £425,000!  Here is how good of a designer this guy is: Reuters has a video up of an interior designer who had a little extra time on his hands and made his flat (eg […]

Okay, long day in meetings so all you get is a video of a python being beat with an oar after eating a capybara – and regurgitating it … (Headline says hippo so you get an idea of its size) So … Uh, Enjoy?

Have you ever thought as you’re driving to work – man, I wish I knew more about the Fundamentals of Biology or how to speak French or hear Martin Luther King Jr’s, speech in its entirety, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” … or hear some classic novel without paying $19.99 … well, say no more […]

So you may have heard recently that the creators of South Park partnered with Microsoft to deliver an episode in HD since Comedy Central doesn’t broadcast in HD on the Xbox live platform. Think of it as the HD 360 (xbox 360 that is) network. Sidebar: I worked at a video game magazine in another […]