Jim Lipsey

The Cubs let Greg Maddux go to the Braves during free agency in 1992. There are few dumber things they’ve ever done, which is saying something. But this is not a team content to fail. They must fail spectacularly. So it’s unsurprising that after getting Maddux back in 2004 and seeing him [...]

GMail does a pretty good job identifying spam. The offending messages are slotted into a ‘Spam’ folder, where they sit for 30 days before being deleted automatically.
If you’re a compulsive person (like me), this produces an obsessive need to check the spam box four or five times a day to look for false positives [...]

They’ve definitely got chutzpah. Here’s a site whose business model is to facilitate payola between companies and bloggers. Reaction has not been positive (in the article or its trackbacks). I predict bloggers will add ‘I don’t take payola’ badges to the countless other icons and graphics that are clogging up sidebars everywhere. [...]

I just added Unusual Business Ideas That Work to my slowly-growing blogroll. It’s a site that profiles oddball ideas that ended up being wildly successful, like the guy who sends mail from Santa Claus, or folks who sell t-shirts. While the business concepts draw our attention for being quirky, the recurring theme in [...]