In 1995 two bank robberies were performed by an individual wearing no disguise. The surveillance tapes insured that he was arrested the same day. When he was shown the videos he was amazed that they could see his face. He said, “but I wore the juice”. It seems he had been told that putting lemon juice on your face would keep it from showing up on security cameras.
Invisible Gorilla Quote
During the 2008 presidential campaign there was a discrepancy between how Hillary Clinton described a trip to Tuzla, Bosnia and the videos of the event. Clinton recalled being under sniper fire and running for cover, but the videos show no safety concern. The book The Invisible Gorilla talks about these types of memory errors. I found this quote from the book to be particularly funny:
Even Bill Clinton later proffered commonsense excuses for his wife’s memory lapse, claiming (incorrectly) that she made the comments late at night and pointed out (correctly but perhaps unhelpfully) that she was sixty years old.
Ninite
Interesting tool for installing lots of free software all at once.
Economy
Heard somwhere:
The economy is so bad, I got a pre-declined credit card offer in the mail.
Minimum Wage and Skill
The minimum wage has increased steadily in the U.S. even as the average skill of a high school graduate has fallen. ~philg
A very interesting thought. Somehow the skill level of the workers doesn’t seem to come up when discussing minimum wage.