Marginal Revolution announced the Louve’s move to offer an official tour of the paintings featured in the DaVinci Code. The Louve probably got the idea from New Zealand’s country-wide Lord of the Ring tours. Seems to me, offering structured, real-life tours based on popular fiction is an amazingly fun, easy, and profitable idea – that [...]
Talk about unfriendly experiences. I was headed to BlockE to see a movie with my sister. We purchased our tickets on the second floor and as per usual complained about the placement of Cold Stone Creamery right in front of the escalators up to the movie, but the signs that state in no uncertain terms [...]
Joe Ely, one of my favorite bloggers posted a great photo on the oft difficult cost/benefit of doing a job yourself or paying someone to do it. His example is a difference of $0.26. But what if we extend that to software/website development, usability testing, lego home construction, or just about anything. “Here’s all the [...]
This is the second week of WBEZ’s membership pledge drive (Yes, I’m a member, you should be too.) Their pleas for memberships and pleges got me thinking about their revenue model. It’s definitely not a bad one. While I’m happy to pay WBEZ a couple times a year I grumble about the annual costs of [...]
Not that I’m surprised (I’m worthless without mine), but Japan’s Hokkaido University is reporting that 1 in 10 people rely on Palm Pilots so heavily that without them, they have severe memory loss. Not that this is completely without precedent. Other studies have determined that married couples ‘store’ information for each other. That’s why they [...]