The
The Wizard of Ads says:

If the goal is to cause the customer to willingly give you her attention…you must offer her a thought more interesting than the thought that currently occupies her mind.

Even though the Wizard is down on the idea of using sex to sell, this explains nicely how sex sells. It is [...]

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While Mikey G and I were
discussing the intricacies of US Copyright Law and duplication rights, it seems the RIAA was busy contradicting us. According to Marc Fisher at the Washington Post, the RIAA is now arguing that it was illegal for an Arizona man to copy music he legally owned onto his own computer. [...]

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We are told risk is one of the major reasons executives get paid more. In order to attract their talents and contacts and skills and money, businesses have to fork over cash. And “risk” is often also cited as the reason we should get rid of, or minimize, capital gains and other taxes on the [...]

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Late last night after I was too tired to do anything I started reading some political weblogs. And one pointed to an economist giving a rather bleak
prediction of economic armageddon here. I’ve been fighting off almost crushing anxiety ever since. I think it probably has something to do with having a kid who is [...]

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I just received yet another collection of television shows on DVD, and suddenly I realize that the television I like enough to own is at least as old as I am, most of it even older:

Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Are You Being Served?
Wild Wild West
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Get Smart
Star Trek

I do own some more modern [...]

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