Read Meow Mix Academy Puts New Yorkers in Touch With Their Feline Side.

What was your honest uncensored reaction to it?

What a brilliant marketing campaign!
Ho hum, so what?!
The world is soooo f*cked.

I picked c.

This just seem so … wrong. I do have a cat I love - but this just smacked of spoilt, rich, bored, neotenised brats with nothing better to do than just pointlessly consume …

Dr. W. Edwards Deming, the originator of TQM (Total Quality Management), put forth 14 points of organisation behaviour change towards better performance.

Stilgherrian’s post on being real on the web brought to mind Deming’s eighth point: Drive out fear.

Point 8: Fear is a barrier to improvement so drive out fear by encouraging effective two-way communication and other mechanisms that will enable everybody to be …

A very funny and pointedly thought-provoking post by Dave on the ethics around the Bratz dolls for young girls.

The comments are definitely worth a read.

When I first encountered these dolls a few years ago I was quite disturbed by them. Now I am hardly a prude by a long shot (just ask my friends!), but these dolls do seem to …

The recent terrorist attacks in the UK made me think of my post on principles vs rules.

The individuals in each terrorist cell are driven by clear principles. They act on these principles the best way they know how, using whatever method or approach that works. Often these are ways most likely to succeed in the local environment because of their local knowledge, and their high adaptability unconstrained …

So what’s your excuse?!

“We thought we were very different from other animals including our primate relatives, but this is not the case. At least some altruism may have been present in the common ancestor to humans and chimpanzees.” Felix Warneken, from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Read the full article on ITWire.

Ben Kepple’s Prosperity Gospel highlights the importance of dignity in charitable activities - especially microfinance programmes such as kiva.org.

“Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he’ll eat forever.” Lao Tzu

Spotted in Chinatown - this sticky plaster you put on your navel that will help you loose weight. “Immediate results”! This is of course assuming the slimming tea, slimming mud, or the slimming electrode therapy did not work for you.

Funny and amusing on one hand, but also sad and maddening at the same time. Where do these people get off? Sure we all know obesity …

I came upon these two “No Thinspiration” blog posts recently while doing some research on eating disorders*:
The stunning size 12 model branded ‘too fat’ for TV competition
Marianne Berglund from ‘Make me a super model’ TV show

The comments are quite telling - so many (presumably from their names) female comment posters seem to support and look up to these unwell-looking ultra-thin models, and don’t really …

“CHINA’S former top food and drug regulator has been given the death penalty in an unusually harsh sentence against a backdrop of widening international and domestic concern over the safety of “Made in China” food, pharmaceutical and other products.”

This article by Mary-Anne Toy Death sentence for corrupt food and drug boss in the Sydney Morning Herald made me wonder (not without a huge amount …

Here’re some pie charts I drew up from figures presented in Jessica Irvine’s article No work choices - we’re toiling round the clock on the Sydney Morning Herald’s website.