Archive For March, 2010
You don’t see many cars with The Club anymore, now that more high-tech anti-theft devices and alarms are so prevalent. But this guy parked in our neighborhood isn’t taking any chances with his circa 1991 Geo Metro: I understand this fine piece of machinery just screams “steal me!” to would-be car thieves, but keep in [...]
As a chronic over-analyzer of things, I was intrigued by the subtitle of the book Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less. I sure wouldn’t mind thinking less, I thought. Maybe this book can help me out, I thought. Unfortunately, the very act of reading the book required way too much [...]
When Chrysler launched the PT Cruiser as a year 2000 model, they might not have seen the huge success story the car would turn into. They built it off the platform for the underwhelming Dodge Neon, and that’s why I’m calling it a redesign. In January 2001, the PT Cruiser won Car & Driver’s Car [...]
Over the past year, Target has been replacing their store brand products with redesigned and re-branded “Up & Up” products. The previous store brand products very clearly took their design and color schemes from the brand leader they were imitating. For example, their old bottle of ibuprofen closely resembled a bottle of Advil. This is [...]
Yesterday I received a letter from the United States Department of Commerce: “About one week from now, you will receive a 2010 Census form in the mail.” Are you kidding? I mean, thanks for the heads up, but why not just send the form? Assuming every one of America’s 114 million households received this letter, [...]
