Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- David Senra on David Ogilvy

- Could be true

- Daily Coach on Daniel Kahneman

- Funny but true

Some Memes You May Enjoy

Many a truth is said in jest.

- Analysis true!

- Great now I'll never get this thought out of my head.

- X showing core American values.

- Heh Heh

Some Memes You May Enjoy

Many a truth is said in jest.

- Sure public school teachers would come up with a less obvious title.

- Funny because its true!

- Heh Heh (HT Feral Irishman)

- Truth

Tesla's Amazing Advertising Strategy

Tesla hasn't spent a dime on paid advertising yet outperforms every car maker in the world. The prime exhibit for their success is the above graph where they saw orders for their cars spike the day after the Super Bowl. A Super Bowl that saw a number of competing EV manufacturers touting their products only to have viewers say, "Nah - gonna buy a Tesla instead." Amazing!

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Maybe the Most Amazing Thing About Tesla

This always amazes me. Tesla has gotten to be the market leader with ZERO advertising. Keep this in mind when reading negative reviews of Tesla in print formats. Those outlets aren't receiving any money from Tesla but they are from the competition.

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Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Reminder that it's been 18 months and not only has no evidence of bat to human transmission been discovered - the "wet markets" in Wuhan are still open and operating. The disease came from a lab... Business idea - make the plants marijuana and sell hundreds of these at Phish concerts... A local Dunkin Donuts in Rutland, MA has been closed for 3-weeks because they can't find enough employees willing to work. This is not good. That is not good at all... Kind of admire the evil genius of this ad... Fair is fair - it is rumored that Apple is looking at getting into the EV car game so why shouldn't Tesla get into the browser and operating system game? Tesla could even just buy Duck Duck Go at this point, come out with their own operating system and launch a line of smart phones. You know there are millions of people who would buy a Tesla phone sight unseen... 

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

-  The Day the Dinosaurs Died (Long but interesting read)

- Matt Taibbi on former Havard President Larry Summers' comments on the proposed $2,000 stimulus checks. 

- 22 quotes from a recent Charlie Munger interview

- Kevin Simler - Ads Don't Work That Way (another long but interesting read)

The 70's Were a Different Time

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Can you imagine an ad like this today in the era of #MeToo? I can't imagine anyone wearing those pants today either.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- I've always fantasized about living in a treehouse (or a sailboat)

- The dirty truth about hand dryers. I hate hand dryers. Bring back paper towels!

- Not all Olympic heroes wear capes

- Bad news for network TV and newspapers - Google and Facebook are dominating the ad business

- Heh heh - Black Panther spoiler

- When the Russians first spoke about American "useful idiots" it is people like Michael Moore they had in mind.

- Austin Carr is a good person

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

People keep wondering if Donald Trump would run as a Third-Party candidate but the real question people should be asking is if Bernie Sanders would run as a Third-Party candidate... Why there should be no deal with Iran... Praise the Lord! I've now been stigmata free for over 40-years!... When asked to name their favorite movies people rarely list The Princess Bride but when reminded almost all add the classic to their list...  Interesting look at Notre Dame football... As a reminder of how important air pressure is to the "integrity" of  NFL games - the NFL has yet to issue teams their new pressure gauges... 15 facts about daddy longlegs. Missing is the fact that if you kill one you will cause it to rain... If the ads for Hai Karate cologne were true then I when was young I would have spent all my energy beating off the advances of swarms of women - instead I just beat off. There's no truth in advertising...

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Honest slogans

- Jeff Francoeur getting pranked by his minor league teammates is epic.

- I'm so happy that Jonathan Papelbon is some other team's problem

- The Gospel of Jesus' wife may be real.

- "Did someone eat a bat? Did someone scavenge another dead chimp, one that had shared fruit with a bat?" Your Ebola update. Scary stuff.

- 11 amazing insect close-ups

- George R R Martin has a sense of humor

Delta Drops Daily Show

I read this about Delta dropping out from advertising on The Daily Show because of an offensive "vagina manger" skit.

The skit may have been over the line and I do agree that if they had tried to place an image of Muhammad in place of the manger - then it would have been censored - but I think the reason Delta decided to stop advertising on the show is more simple. The target audience of The Daily Show is not really the target audience for Delta. How many college students or slackers buy airline tickets? Not many. This viewpoint also explains why Kellogg's isn't dropping their advertising over the "vagina manger". What percentage of The Daily Show's audience buy boxes of cereal? Pretty much all of them.

I'm guessing that The Daily Show isn't too worked up abut losing Delta Airlines - Ramen Noodles has probably been waiting in line for some time.