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Noise makers driving people to violence

wap.cbsnews.com/site?t=bcuFl5djBLofa7MCrwyQXQ&sid=cbsnews It was only a matter of time before those annoying horns lead to violence. It reminds me of the Waco standoff and the police started playing different sounds through loudspeakers to try to upset the cult followers. I believe some of the sounds were like babies crying or animals moaning. There is some instinctual urge to want to do anything to make certain noises stop. And now we know… Read More »Noise makers driving people to violence

Traffic down a little

Just to give an update as to what I think is going on with Google’s update.  We’re well into June and it seems like things in some areas are maybe settling down.  At least on this site with no real off site SEO (although I suppose I could have started to get some links naturally) it seems that the traffic peaked June 2nd with a smaller peak around June 12th.… Read More »Traffic down a little

Best drug ever

J Clin Psychiatry 2010;71(5):520–527 Adjuvant Aspirin Therapy Reduces Symptoms of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Results From a Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial Objective: Inflammatory processes may play a role in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of adjuvant treatment with aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Method: This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study was conducted between May 2004 and August 2007. Seventy antipsychotic-treated inpatients… Read More »Best drug ever

Unusual checked baggage

USA today article about human heads   As best I can understand is that Southwest Airlines discovered a package of 40-60 human heads trying to be sent on one of their flights. Because the package wasn’t properly labeled they discovered the contents and there is now an investigation into whether these were black market body parts being sold for science. Medtronics is a pretty big company and I can’t imagine… Read More »Unusual checked baggage

Unusual marketing techniques

Not sure why it struck me enough to want to blog about, but while listening to Kathy Griffin’s interview with Howard Stern today she used the phrase, “Bing it”. It’s the first time I heard someone use the phrase and it did actually sound pretty natural. Most people use Google and you often here people say “Google it” or “look it up on Google”.   I have heard in the… Read More »Unusual marketing techniques

Not the greatest trio ever

Link to news story about Hansen   I was recently wondering what happened to the fabulous musical trio (not to be confused with the less well respected Police band). And no – Sting was not called to intervene in this particular case. I’m thinking the police should have intervened not because of the unruly crowd, but instead the crimes against humanity brought about by exposing people to Mmmbop again.

More traffic changes seen around the web

One day after I gave my thoughts on Google’s Caffeine architecture and the Mayday Update, Google announces that the Caffeine architecture is now fully implemented.  They give some nice explanations of why they did this massive change and also I think they gave some additional insight (for me at least) as to how they worked the old architecture.  I always had a sense that they were doing things in layers… Read More »More traffic changes seen around the web

Google’s new infrastructure

Most people who visit here probably have no idea what SEO even is.  Well, at this point, almost no one visits here anyway.  I’ll make another post sometime about SEO and my history doing SEO work.  I’m currently semi-retired.  Nonetheless, I continue to follow the news and trends with some interest. Google Caffeine is the new architecture Google started talking about in August 2009.  In and of itself, it wouldn’t… Read More »Google’s new infrastructure

Seinfeld solution

I just noticed it today. A funky smell when I got into the car. I don’t think it was there this morning, but it was definitely there when I went to run some errands at lunch time. Now to try to figure it out.   Yesterday evening the little F’rs did eat some chicken nuggets in the back seat but I don’t think they dropped any. There was one or… Read More »Seinfeld solution

Complementary medicine studies

While I found this article giving a scientific explanation for the way that accupuncture causes pain relief interesting, I realized how happy I am that I didn’t complete the MD/PhD programs I nearly attended.  The researchers gave lab mice sore paws by injecting an inflammatory chemical into their paws.  They then proceeded to do acupuncture on the mice by inserting needles into an acupuncture point in the knee above the sore… Read More »Complementary medicine studies

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