"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done."
 
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Grins and Giggles...
These links will take you to unusual and humorous places that we hope you will find interesting and thought provoking, or will at least bring a smile to your face...
Retail Alphabet Game by Joey Katzen
Test your ability to recognize the following Logo Letters...

Popular Logos and Brands
What's your brand IQ? Take the Smart Marketing IQ Test...

BrandPrix
Test you knowledge of cars and associated brands in the "Brandprix"
Bob McMath Shares Lessons Learned from his Study of Failed Consumer Products
Consumers buy products they've learned to trust. Your trust is what the retailers are after. But, sometimes for various reasons, products just don't work. And some of them end up in the failed products museum. In this series of video clips, Bob McMath shares his experience and and thoughts on new product trends, successes and failures, and the challenges faced by new product developers based on his extensive study and collection of over 70,000 consumer products.

Foreign Groceries Museum
Take a tour of Steve Portigal's Museum of Foreign Grocery Products
Dilbert
Scott Adams comic strip portrayal of corporate life.

BuzzPhraserTM
BuzzPhrases are built with TechnoLatin, a non-language that replaces plain English nouns with vague but precise-sounding substitutes.

Marshall Brain's How Stuff Works
Have you ever wondered how the engine in your car works or what makes your refrigerator cold? Then How Stuff Works is the place for you!

Create a Ride
If you've been on the road in the last decade or so you've surely seen those lowered, modified cars with their loud exhaust and custome wheels. Well now is your chance to create your own sweet ride ...
The Machines of Leonardo da Vinci
Although he is best known for his dramatic and expressive artwork, Leonardo also conducted dozens of carefully thought out experiments and created futuristic inventions in a time before modern science and invention had really begun.

Rube Goldberg Inventions
"Through his wacky cartoons which depict the most elaborate and ridiculous devices to accomplish the most mundane tasks, RUBE GOLDBERG'S "INVENTIONS" have become synonymous with any maximum effort to achieve minimal results. His ingenious drawings follow their own impeccable logic, demonstrating that the unnecessary can also be the mother of invention - often with hilarious results."
How Everyday Things are Made
If you've ever wondered how things are made - products like candy, cars, airplanes, or bottles - or if you've been interested in manufacturing processes, like forging, casting, or injection molding, then you've come to the right place.
Gregg Tong's Blog
Gregg Tong's thoughts on product development. Includes top 10 lists from the Critical Path archives...
Bad Designs
A scrapbook of illustrated examples of things that are hard to use because they do not follow human factors principles.


 
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