It could be worse.

Another buddy of mine has just started a blog with the goal of making some kind of dent in the problem of extreme poverty. It’s a big job and you might be thinking to yourself, “What can one person do?” Cory has started a series of articles discussing just that question and he’s got some [...]

A man spends 10-20 hours every day with a woman in a virtual world. He “marries” her. Is he cheating on his flesh and blood wife? Of course he is. He may not be having sex with his virtual mistress but marriage is about a lot more than who you have sex with. Sitting alone [...]

Sad. Shows you how effective marketing and advertising are. Even carrots, milk and apple juice tasted better to the kids when they were wrapped in the familiar packaging of the Golden Arches… Study author Dr. Tom Robinson said the kids’ perception of taste was “physically altered by the branding.” Study: Food in McDonald’s wrapper tastes [...]

I just noticed the tag cloud over there on the sidebar (it shows the topics that have been written about here in alphabetical order) lists as the first three topics: Anticpating, Awful, Babies. That’d be a whole other blog. Anticpatingawfulbabies.com is available, if you’re so inclined. :-)

Two completely unrelated events are the genesis of this post. First, I am the creator of BigHugeLabs: fd’s Flickr Toys. On July 9th 2007 I launched a re-design of the site that included a prominently displayed motivational poster sample on the home page. That motivational poster was based on the photo to the right which [...]