The Monkey King: Jyoti Raju at Chitradurga Fort, India

Posted: August 31st, 2009 | Author: CB | Filed under: random | Tags: , | No Comments »

Jumping from one rock to the other, scaling walls or any man-made height without any aid, Jyoti Raju truly lives up to his nick name ‘monkey king’. He entertains visitors at the Chitradurga Fort in southern India by his incredible acrobatics.


Unseen Tracking of Online Consumers by Data Harvesting Companies

Posted: August 30th, 2009 | Author: CB | Filed under: commerce | Tags: , , | No Comments »

Ads Follow Web Users, and Get More Personal
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
Published: July 30, 2009

For all the concern and uproar over online privacy, marketers and data companies have always known much more about consumers’ offline lives, like income, credit score, home ownership, even what car they drive and whether they have a hunting license. Recently, some of these companies have started connecting this mountain of information to consumers’ browsers.

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BBCS’s Walk On The Wild Side

Posted: August 29th, 2009 | Author: CB | Filed under: science or lack thereof | Tags: , | No Comments »


Volkswagen “Ugh” Ad

Posted: August 28th, 2009 | Author: CB | Filed under: random | Tags: , , | 1 Comment »

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This is an awful picture of a Volkswagen.
It’s just not us.
We don’t go in much for trading bees or sales jamborees or assorted powwows.
Maybe it’s because we don’t quite understand the system.
We’ve never figured out why they run clearance sales on brand new cars.
If there are cars left over every year, why make so many in the first place?
And how come the price goes down, even though the cars are still brand new?
How does the poor guy who one last week feel about this week’s prices?
Imagine what a problem it must be to keep enough ports on hand when they’re always changing. And for the mechanic to keep track of what he’s doing.
It’s all very confusing.
Either we’re way behind the times. Or way ahead.