I’m not a big fan of WordPress. I think most CMSs today suck because they don’t provide a decent WYSIWYG editor. Yes, god really is in the details. With the option to clean up your code enabled (cause I don’t like non-compliant HTML either, ya know), this FCYK editor or whatever its name is a [...]
Coca-Cola’s marketing endeavors include sociolinguistic studies. They so learned that their brand name is offensive in at least one language, and had it changed for the purposes of marketing their product in that country. Apparently the flavor of the beverage itself is tuned to appeal to the target population. Sometimes I’m amazed how frustrated and [...]
“Commercials are meant to make us feel like we’re missing things from our life.” I’ve heard this twice this last month, once during smalltalk with one of my colleagues, and again in an online clip. I have two problems with this assertion. The first problem is its reliance on paranoid thoughts akin to conspiracy theories. [...]
Fact: The whole blog concept is overrated! The main driving force of blogs is time-based entries. Blog is short for web log. Get it? Log. Journal. Date archives and calendars help easily locate log entries by date. Most blogs I’ve read, however, fall short of conveying meaningful date-oriented information. Web and journal don’t quite fit [...]
There goes brain fart #2… To investigate how Mendelism may be simulated, we collected data on a common familial behavioral trait, attendance at medical school, among the relatives of 249 preclinical medical students. The “risk” of first-degree relatives going to medical school was approximately 61 times that of the general population. Complex segregation analysis carried [...]