Archives for October 2004

Neuromarketing: Science owns you

Okay, it’s a long article, but you should be able to get through the meat of it in 10 minutes. Clive Thompson wrote an article for the New York Times in 2003 about the use of brain scanning in order to understand cunsumers.

Over several months this past summer, Montague set to work looking for [...]

Stanford University and iTunes

Dems smart fellas (found at O’Reilly Radar)

Web 2.0 Bashing

I agree wholeheartedly with Dare Obasanjo in his new posting which quotes quite a bit of Joel Spolsky’s rant about Architect Astronauts

House: Side yard 90% done

With some more help from Mom and my nephew, the major work on the side of the house is done. I still need to put some border wood (1×4 pressure treated) along the fence to keep the pea rock from going under it, but here’s where it stands today after $800 in materials and [...]

Too funny to not share

Startupsound (found at Engadget)

Driver’s License Renewal for Geezers

Hey, that’s fantastic folks. What’s not clear is whether or not that 2003 license renewal included an in-car test.
Seems to me, the now-deceased should have seen the car coming and blown the old man away under Florida’s new law.
Remind me again why people over 80 aren’t required to take both in-car performance and eyesight [...]