Your eyes and packaging design have some fascinating input when it comes to purchasing decisions, an NYTimes.com post says, quoting a University of Miami survey. When buying products whose selling point is richness or weight, consumers like to see the product image at the bottom or the right of the packaging, according to a study [...]
[via Steve Buttry, stats from Socialnomics]
You know, when reading The Star Press, I get used to reading stories that make me sad inside. But this one just takes the cake. The guy used cow tranqs to have sex with an ex-girlfriend. I’m not even going to make a joke. Police: Cattle tranquilizer used in sex assault.
At least one member of India’s government is concerned about unfettered population growth, and has announced that the best way to address the issue is to get more Indians to spend their evenings watching TV so that they’re “…too tired to make babies.” Read more at CNN
Norton (yes, that anti-virus company that profits off people’s porn addictions and affinities for hitting “yes” to foreign window prompts) is touting a list of search terms teens enter while using the company’s family/kid security software on home computers. Presented here, the top 5: 1. YouTube 2. Google 3. Facebook 4. Sex 5. MySpace 6. [...]
Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village
Morning is the Internet’s drivetime/primetime reports NYTimes.com. The rush results from American’s few hours of sleep each night, which causes what the Times coined as “network deprivation.” Arbor Networks, a Boston company that analyzes Internet use, says that Web traffic in the United States gradually declines from midnight to around 6 a.m. on the East [...]
Riders on the Invertigo Roller Coaster at the Great America Theme park – 24 to be exact – were stranded mid-air Monday. Hey! That’s an opportunity for on-the-scene twitporting! It appears Twitter user @cynful1 began tweeting from the coaster during the incident, although a closer look from a local news outlet reveals a potential attention [...]
Well, BBQ Beaver. It was a hit at the Indiana State Fair, IndyStar.com reports. Instead of the traditional elephant ear or turkey leg, fairgoers visiting the Department of Natural Resources building got to sample turtle soup, barbecued beaver and deer sausage. Seventy-year-old Columbus, Ind. resident Jim Mahoney spends months hunting and trapping his beavers. Only [...]