Category Archives: Fun & Random

A Super-Slippery Material To…Slip People Up

The New Scientist offers its patent sleuth’s most interesting, surprising and sometimes alarming, discoveries of 2006. My favorite is:

An even less lethal alternative might be to coat an adversary with slippery slime. US researchers developed a super-slippery material that could be sprayed from the back of a truck or tank.

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A Most Excellent List of 2006 Tops

My colleageue Sue MacDonald, author of BlogPulse newswire, sent me PRWeek’s massive list of lists for 2006 in the marketing communications industry, including blunders, jobs, hires, brands, launches, terms, etc. Here are the top-five terms you’d never want to hear again:

  1. Crackberry – We get it – it’s rude to e-mail at the dinner table.
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Five Things You Don’t Know About Me

I got sucked into this chain blog via Scott Karp, and I’m following the heard. Boy, this meme sure indicates how much ego searching is going on! Here are five things you didn’t know about me: 

  1. I grew up on a classic wooden sailboat from birth until I was ten years old, and I received my “Master License” license by the U.S.
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