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IT Conversations: Malcolm Gladwell -
Human Nature

IT Conversations: Malcolm Gladwell -
Human Nature 03/17/2005 02:49 AM
IT Conversations: Malcolm Gladwell - Human Nature .. Gladwell did in the presentation .. New book from Malcolm Gladwell .. I heard him talk .. Listen .. MP3

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Dan's account of malcolm gladwell event

Dan's account of malcolm gladwell event 05/25/2004 04:09 PM
gladwell seems pleasantly neurotic

IT Conversations: Malcolm Gladwell -
SXSW Interactive 2005

IT Conversations: Malcolm Gladwell -
SXSW Interactive 2005 04/18/2005 10:29 AM
Audio of Malcolm Gladwell's keynote from SXSW 2005 is available for streaming or download .. IT Conversations: Malcolm Gladwell - SXSW Interactive 2005

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"Malcolm Gladwell on Jared Diamond's new
book on how societies go extinct"

"Malcolm Gladwell on Jared Diamond's new
book on how societies go extinct" 12/28/2004 09:33 PM

DSL Conundrum

DSL Conundrum 07/08/2004 08:37 AM
G4 Tech TV Jul 8 2004 1:24PM GMT

The connection conundrum: 3G or Wi-Fi?

The connection conundrum: 3G or Wi-Fi? 05/17/2004 04:34 PM
ZDNet May 17 2004 7:42PM GMT

Copy conundrum

Copy conundrum 05/13/2004 06:35 AM
USA Today May 13 2004 10:54AM GMT

China conundrum

China conundrum 04/12/2004 07:37 AM
CNET Asia Apr 12 2004 11:58AM GMT

Catch-22, Linking Conundrum

Catch-22, Linking Conundrum 12/30/2002 07:43 AM
"...our main competitor has been online for 6 years. back in those good ol' days, the word reciprocal was not a buzz word. people gave links freely without a demanding tit for tat. "

The Internet content conundrum

The Internet content conundrum 11/01/2003 07:37 PM
There's more Web content than ever, but Knowledge@Wharton examines whether profits will become part of that picture.

Health care conundrum

Health care conundrum 06/20/2004 03:53 AM
Boston Globe Jun 20 2004 7:13AM GMT

Google bidding conundrum: To bid now or
later?

Google bidding conundrum: To bid now or
later? 08/15/2004 07:43 AM
ExpressIndia.com Aug 15 2004 11:39AM GMT

A Real Google Conundrum

A Real Google Conundrum 04/11/2005 02:27 PM
"I have a well-established site that over the past few days has lost almost all its Google referals. I think I know what's wrong but have no idea how to fix it."

Microsoft's Patching Conundrum

Microsoft's Patching Conundrum 12/11/2003 02:27 PM
Details of two potentially serious IE browser flaws have been disclosed ahead of the availability of patches.

The Chocolate-Coffee Conundrum

The Chocolate-Coffee Conundrum 12/19/2004 03:27 PM
If coffee chains used better chocolate, Lawrence Meyers argues, they'd sell more coffee.

Cousin Marriage Conundrum

Cousin Marriage Conundrum 12/17/2004 06:42 PM
Cousin Marriage Conundrum [...]By fostering intense family loyalties and strong nepotistic urges, inbreeding makes the development of civil society more difficult. Many Americans have heard by now that Iraq is composed of three ethnic groups -- the Kurds of the north, the Sunnis of the center, and the Shi'ites of the south. Clearly, these ethnic rivalries would complicate the task of ruling reforming Iraq. But that's just a top-down summary of Iraq's ethnic make-up. Each of those three ethnic groups is divisible into smaller and smaller tribes, clans, and inbred extended families -- each with their own alliances, rivals, and feuds. And the engine at the bottom of these bedeviling social divisions is the oft-ignored institution of cousin marriage[...]

Best-Selling Author Malcolm Gladwell to
Keynote at IIR's Innovations in
Marketing Strategy Conference

Best-Selling Author Malcolm Gladwell to
Keynote at IIR's Innovations in
Marketing Strategy Conference 02/01/2005 09:05 PM
Market Wire Jan 20 2005 5:47PM GMT

Planet Ketchup!

Planet Ketchup! 08/09/2004 03:21 PM
the best reason to kill a tomato

W Ketchup™

W Ketchup™ 07/07/2004 02:46 PM
you are a right-wing nutjob, shouldn't your ketchup represent that? .. A conservative condiment .. Absolutely hilarious .. W Ketchup web site .. Order some today .. ketchup

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"Kerry's House of Ketchup #19"

"Kerry's House of Ketchup #19" 07/22/2004 03:07 PM

"Kerry's House of Ketchup #9"

"Kerry's House of Ketchup #9" 04/30/2004 11:54 AM

"Kerry's House of Ketchup #13"

"Kerry's House of Ketchup #13" 05/28/2004 09:25 PM

"Kerry's House of Ketchup #20"

"Kerry's House of Ketchup #20" 07/26/2004 08:59 PM

President Tomato Ketchup

President Tomato Ketchup 12/30/2004 06:34 AM
Imitati on chicken. Kennedy Fried Chicken, JFK Fried Chicken, J. F. Kennedy Fried Chicken, Kan tacky Fried Chicken, et al. [via cardhouse]

Online Games Pose Carrier Conundrum

Online Games Pose Carrier Conundrum 06/10/2004 08:41 PM
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Food Companies Offering 'W' Ketchup (AP)

Food Companies Offering 'W' Ketchup (AP) 08/28/2004 03:15 PM
AP - Two upstart ketchup companies are offering an alternative to consumers who want condiments with a GOP flavor.

Bush Country Ketchup Homepage

Bush Country Ketchup Homepage 04/26/2004 10:57 PM
Bush Country Ketchup

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ketchup: aplicar parches automáticamente
al kernel

ketchup: aplicar parches automáticamente
al kernel 04/27/2004 06:43 PM

Telegraph | Opinion | Knowns, unknowns
and the Ketchup Kid

Telegraph | Opinion | Knowns, unknowns
and the Ketchup Kid 01/27/2004 01:47 PM
Mark Steyn: Knowns, Unknowns And The Ketchup Kid .. places his bet .. Jan. 27

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Ketchup mishap stains his reputation...
(Reuters)

Ketchup mishap stains his reputation...
(Reuters) 06/17/2005 05:04 PM
Reuters - An email between a highly paid lawyer and a secretary over a tomato ketchup stain has become the talk of legal circles in London, leaving the sender distinctly red-faced.

Iran conundrum Breaking codes is
virtually impossible, experts believe

Iran conundrum Breaking codes is
virtually impossible, experts believe 06/15/2004 11:54 AM
BBC Jun 15 2004 4:05PM GMT

Anti-Ketchup Comments Draw Fire From
Heinz (AP)

Anti-Ketchup Comments Draw Fire From
Heinz (AP) 09/23/2004 10:39 AM
AP - Is putting Heinz ketchup on a burger tantamount to supporting John Kerry for president?

Ketchup email leaves lawyer red-faced
(Reuters)

Ketchup email leaves lawyer red-faced
(Reuters) 06/17/2005 05:05 PM
Reuters - An email between a highly paid lawyer and a secretary over a tomato ketchup stain has become the talk of legal circles in London, leaving the sender distinctly red-faced.

MALCOLM
GLADWELL ON SUV'S AND THE DANGER OF
LEARNED HELPLESSNESS

MALCOLM
GLADWELL ON SUV'S AND THE DANGER OF
LEARNED HELPLESSNESS 01/08/2004 07:50 PM

Malcolm does it again. My favourite New Yorker writer this week (it's not in the online edition, alas) psychoanalyzes America's passion with the SUV and provides some frightening conclusions on automobile safety and driver psychology, and then wryly hints at, but leaves unsaid, some deeper truths that might naturally follow. The first part of the article basically says that Americans love SUV's because they make the driver feel safe, powerful, in control, under any driving conditions. They love them so much in fact that one Ford SUV plant in Michigan grossed 11 billion dollars last year (almost as much as McDonalds nationwide). And the automakers love them because SUVs are not subject to the same regulations as cars and minivans, and as a result are much cheaper and easier to build. Gladwell then shows, by means of a visit with Consumer Reports and a review of accident statistics, that the feelings of invincibility and control in an SUV are sheer myth. Bottom line is that the benefits of an SUV's size and weight in an accident are more than offset, much more than offset, by the higher risk of getting into an accident in the first place due to less precise and responsive handling, longer braking speed (AWD notwithstanding), and fewer signals to the driver of poor road conditions. And that's despite the marginal advantage of visibility due to the height of SUVs, itself offset by a higher risk of rollover. Ultimately the problem is all in the driver's mind. If drivers realized that they are no safer (in fact somewhat less safe) in an SUV than in a subcompact, their concentration and driving behaviour would compensate, SUV accidents would fall, and millions of ruined lives would be spared the consequences of this unwitting recklessness. Unfortunately, as long as SUVs convey the illusion of control and safety, that's not likely to happen. And the answer isn't to make SUVs and trucks subject to the same regulations as cars (though such regulations would vastly improve SUV product quality and gas mileage, which would be a good thing). That would increase the price but wouldn't change the pyschology. It's like when young hockey players were required to wear helmets, face guards and neck braces: Injury rates actually rose, because players suddenly felt safer taking more risks, and became careless, even aggressive, with elbows and sticks, feeling like they and their adversaries were immune to harm with all the padding. Gladwell ascribes the insatiable passion for control and safety and invincibility to a syndrome called Learned Helplessness. The syndrome reinforces the exaggerated feeling of lack of control, of enormous danger, of inability to respond to danger, by repeated exposure to actual or apparent threats: "Learned Helplessness is now thought to play a role in such phenomena as depression and the failure of battered women to leave their husbands, but one could easily apply it more widely. We live in an age, after all, that is strangely fixated on the idea of helplessness: we're fascinated by hurricanes and terrorist acts and epidemics like SARS -- situations in which we feel powerless to affect our own destiny. In fact, the risks posed to life and limb by forces outside our control are dwarfed by the factors we can control. Our fixation with helplessness distorts our perceptions of risk." Two years ago, millions of cows were slaughtered to contain a 'mad cow' breakout in Britain, and recent events in North America have whipped up the hysteria again, on the offchance that a small number of people could catch a rare form of CJD from infected cows. This week in China tens of thousands of wild civets are being slaughtered because someone thinks they might be connected with one new SARS case there. And as Gladwell reports, three years ago the greatest auto industry scandal in decades brought Firestone to its knees due to 271 tire failures in 630 billion tire miles, possibly contributing to a mere 0.00005% of auto accidents in the US that year. Gladwell leaves it at that, but the reader's mind cannot. The reality is that this delusion of danger, and the illusion that something can or has to be done, that someone -- British cows, Canadian farmers, Chinese cats, Firestone, Saddam Hussein -- must be brought to account in order to give us back control, is literally making us all crazy. It causes us to believe we cannot let children out of our sight even for a moment. It causes us to wildly change our diets, to avoid visiting whole countries, to fingerprint whole nations of visitors, to suspend civil liberties, to put barbed wire around our communities, to drink only bottled water, to wear masks, to introduce five levels of increasingly hysterical 'threat' to everyone's safety. It is irrational, neurotic, panic-stricken behaviour, a wild over-reaction to a tiny uncontrollable risk while we recklessly disregard risks we could control and which kill and destroy lives in large numbers everyday -- air and water pollution, tainted food from corrupt and underregulated meat packers, drugs in sport and airplane cockpits, drunk drivers, kids with guns, corporate frauds, a prison system that incarcerates the mentally ill and encourages criminal recidivism -- and on and on and on. Unfortunately, it is also in the best interest of the media and governments to focus on the uncontrollable risks, and to pander to public fear and fascination with them. They're more sensational, more visceral. And since there's really nothing that can be done about them, you can do anything, or nothing, in response to them, and not be held accountable, or responsible. The risks we could control, on the other hand, are mundane, day-to-day, hard and expensive but not impossible to remedy, would if remedied save thousands of lives, and is the responsibility of all of us. Viewers, voters, and consumers don't like to think about such things. Messy. Complicated. Nagging. Costly. And the media, and politicians, are glad to oblige. P.S.: The reason you never see photos of the esteemed Mr. Gladwell, he of the Tipping Point, is that he is only 39, and looks younger. His credibility demands we think of him as older. Besides which, he's (shhh -- don't tell anyone) a Canadian. Also, this week's New Yorker also has a great article that is, at least for now, online: James Surowiecki's summary of war profiteering in Iraq and the insanity and cost of outsourcing 'non-core' competency military activities to Bush's buddies (oops, I mean, to the private sector).

Man's HIV diagnosis turns out to be
wrong 'Republican alternative' to Heinz
ketchup In online statem

Man's HIV diagnosis turns out to be
wrong 'Republican alternative' to Heinz
ketchup In online statem 08/30/2004 06:34 AM
Cnews.canoe.ca - Mon Aug 30, 09:44 am GMT

Backcountry Conservative: Food &
Clothing Contest: Ketchup, Waffles,
Bergers, Pants and Socks

Backcountry Conservative: Food &
Clothing Contest: Ketchup, Waffles,
Bergers, Pants and Socks 07/24/2004 07:58 PM
Food & Clothing Contest: Ketchup, Waffles, Bergers, Pants and Socks .. dedicated to Jeff Quinton .. Jeff's little collection .. fun little contest .. the cause

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Shake, Shake the Ketchup Bottle - None
will come, and then ... By Mickey Kaus

Shake, Shake the Ketchup Bottle - None
will come, and then ... By Mickey Kaus 08/31/2004 07:19 PM
great point .. Mickey Kaus

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