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Your Plan Might Fail

Last night I watched The Eiger Sanction. It wasn't very good but I found one thing interesting.

The hero is Clint Eastwood. He's a macho mountain climber and killer but he's cautious. His character complains repeatedly that they shouldn't be using a route up a mountain that doesn't allow for an easy retreat.

The leader of the climb is arrogant, however, and dismisses Clint's concerns. He says that they won't need to retreat but (Spoiler Alert) bad weather comes, they do need to retreat and all the climbers die except Clint - who has to be saved by a team from the base.

The filming was actually done on a difficult climb. There were serious accidents and, ironically, a cameraman who fell and was hurt:

blamed Eastwood for the accident for lack of preparation, describing him as a director and actor as "a very impatient man who doesn't really plan his pictures or do any homework. He figures he can go right in and sail through these things"

How To Be Popular on Social Media

Found on Scobelizer: Comment by Tristan Kromer

On a blog -- as in media in general -- being factual and providing valuable information is not enough to tip something into viral distribution.

You have to be loved but also hated. A controversial post which is equally loved an hated gets 70x the distribution of a mediocre post.

If it's not somewhat controversial, it's not worth sharing.

If you want to see something fascinating, look at OKCupid's latest analysis.

A girl ranked as "pretty" with an avg score of 3.4 from viewers won't get as many messages as an "interesting" girl who also has an avg score of 3.4. Because the interesting girl has some feature (or defect) which some people love and some people hate.

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Circumcision Debate

Two friends are standing beside eachother at a urinal. One says to the other: 'I can’t help but notice that you are circumcised. Did it hurt?'. The other replies: ‘I was only eight days old when it was done and I didn’t feel a thing. However, I didn’t walk for a year.’ 

Read more: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/01/30/paul-russell-readers-skeptical-about-circumcision-and-cryptic-crossword/#ixzz1CXfreHCN

The Internet in 1967

One of his most prescient articles appeared in 1967.

“We will probably see a national information-computer-utility system, with tens of thousands of terminals in homes and offices providing library and information services, retail ordering and billing services, and the like.”

He didn’t even dream of email; no one did. But he had a much better grasp of the future than almost anyone else.

Read more: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/01/29/robert-fulford-death-of-an-intellectual/#ixzz1CXPDB6hs

What Caused The Financial Crisis?

The existing rules were not enforced.

Egypt's Population Doubled in 30 Years

Who's fault is that? Not the Moms and Dads, of course.

Egypt’s GDP per capita has almost doubled since 1981 — an achievement all the more impressive because Egypt’s population has doubled over those same 30 years, from 42 million to 81 million.

Ravi Konda - Marketing Email

I get a lot of poorly written junk mail from Indian recruiters. The author is always a total stranger but invariably begins the letter with a how are you old pal greeting as if he knows me.

This phoniness pisses me off so I started posting this garbage on my blog for everyone to see and today I got a comment from one of the culprits asking me to take the posting down.

can you please delete this post as its got my personal info as my cell phone number!

What a laugh. He can send his trash here there and everywhere like a dog marking trees then claim that he doesn't want his contact info made public. Does that make sense?

Funny Coincidence

On January 27, 2011, on an anti-Castro blog, I came across this:

Fidel and Raul forcibly overthrew a Cuban government where Cuban blacks served as President of the Senate, Minister of Agriculture, Chief of Army, and Head of State (Fulgencio Batista, a grandson of slaves who was born in a palm-roofed shack).

Not that you'll learn any of this from the liberals' exclusive educational source on pre-Castro Cuba: the Godfather II movie.

On January 28, 2011, in reference to the riots in Egypt, I came across this:

Michael Corleone Explains Popular Uprisings

Michael: [about the unrest in Cuba] We saw a strange thing on our way here. Some rebels were being arrested, and instead of being arrested, one of them pulled the pin on a grenade he had hidden in his jacket. He took himself and the captain of the command with him.

Guest: Ah, the rebels are insane!
Michael: Maybe. But the soldiers are paid to fight; the rebels aren't.
Hyman Roth: What does that tell you?
Michael: They can win.

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Is The Recruiting Animal Show a Cult?

Cults - Play CLIP

Hey everybody, Recruiting Animal here on January 26, 2011, the end of the first month of the new year.

I want to read you something someone sent me this week.  It came to him, apparently, through a mailing list he subscribes to and it says:

Dear Recruiting Professional.

My name is Dr Vaughan Hornby, PhD.  I am a trained investigator of cults and I'm sure it will come as no suprise when I tell you that the leading vehicles of cult recruitment today are the new social media.

I was asked recently by a concerned friend to investigate a streaming audio podcast called the Recruiting Animal Show. 

I will be issuing the results soon in a white paper but to get straight to the point, let me ask those of you who listen, have you ever wondered about those mysterious noises that you hear the Animal complaining about on every single show?