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The Future of Marketing...

If this is the future of marketing, then I love it!  This ad for a movie theater has been viewed by several million people, and the company who created it spent nothing to place it.  I, and about a bazillion other bloggers, have done it for them. 

I haven't been to a movie theater in over ten years.  Might even be twenty years.  My last experience was so awful that I haven't even considered going back. 

If I visit Austin, Texas again, I might just make a point of visiting this theater – just to see what people with the attitude displayed in this ad might have built.  I might like it!

Brilliant ad!

The Great Over-or-Under Debate...

I would never have guessed that so much energy had been expended on the burning question of the orientation of a roll of toilet paper on its holder.  I don't know whether to marvel at the ingenuity and passion of mankind, or to despair for various and sundry reasons.  The vector sum of all this is approximately: “Oh, my.”

Click on the image at right to see it in its full, er, glory...

(Very) Geeky Joke Collection...

From protolol.  Example:

“The problem with TCP jokes is that people keep retelling them slower until you get them.”

– eigenrick

Surprise! Or, How I Learned to Love Magnetic Foam...

The Voyager robotic spacecraft are still doing great science work, some 34 years after they were launched.  Scientists interpreting the data from the energetic particle and flow instruments have deduced that the two spacecraft are traveling through a “foamy” (i.e., filled with bubbles) magnetic field environment – a most unexpected finding.

You've heard me rant about this many times before, but one more time can't hurt: these robotic space explorers return far more scientific bang for the buck than our manned space program has ever dreamed about doing.  I'd love to see us dramatically reform our government-paid space program.  I'd be an enthusiastic proponent of something like this: cut NASA's budget by 80%, immediately abandon all manned space programs and anything related to them, and focus exclusively on robotic space exploration with specific scientific objectives.  Manned space exploration should be left to the commercial interests, if there are any...