SkinnySki.com is by far the best resource in the Midwest for updates on cross country ski trail conditions and race results. The only drawback: it doesn’t have an RSS feed. Until now. This is experimental, but seems to be working so far. Copy/paste the following URL into your favorite RSS reader to get the latest [...]
Gladwell presents some interesting perspectives on what the top people in various sports have in common, and how that applies to other fields as well. For example, he explains how the time of year you’re born could effect whether you make the cut in hockey at an early age. If you’re trying to breed for [...]
I think Dan Stanek is onto something with the concept of “conscious consumption” trumping “conspicuous consumption” these days: What changes are you observing in consumer values? What I am seeing is the pendulum swinging away from the conspicuous consumption of the 1980’s and 1990’s and toward conscious consumption. And this is having a profound impact [...]
Tim the IT Guy brings up an interesting point about how companies could save costs in a down economy: fire people who monopolize your internal IT departments due to technical incompetence: [Bosses]can no longer afford to pretend that it’s okay that you don’t understand Excel, since they have to pay to have someone on site [...]
This is currently the fastest growing product on Amazon’s Health & Personal Care category, jumping 96,707% from 50,340th to 52nd on Amazon’s H&PC rankings: What’s going on here? Check out an excerpt from the top customer review, which 11 out of 11 people have found helpful: My muscles felt so tight and big, that I [...]
Did you get to play the stock market game when you were in school? If so, you probably learned something about how to analyze companies, pick stocks, and balance a portfolio. But I’m willing to bet that you would have learned more if you were given real money to play with and were told you [...]
More “Why?” questions worth addressing: 1. Lent why no meat? Answer: Back in the day, butchers failed to cough up enough cash to the Vatican when the Pope’s henchmen came a knockin’. Payback’s a bitch. Or something like that. 2. Reasons why to respect gay people. Answer: a) Because they’re people. b) Check answer “a”. [...]
Andrew Zimmern, Bill Roehl, and peeps on SoTC (formerly MNSpeak) have weighed in on what they think of the new site. Time to jump on the bandwagon! I haven’t given this much thought since the transition, but I did manage to dig up some stats that may say something about the transition. Bill mentions that [...]
I’m testing out a few different ad networks in an attempt to figure out how to squeeze a few bucks out of this thing without annoying you too much. However, some ad networks aren’t playing along. For example, one just sent me a rejection letter with the following explanation: Your site may have been declined [...]
