I have a few things in common with my favorite illustrator, Hugh MacLeod. We both try to be humorous, edgy and generous with our blogs. [He succeeds more oftan than me.] In return, we hope somehow to pick up enough business to survive economically.People vastly overestimate what either of us make, or in Hugh's case, what I think he makes. Hugh and I chatted briefly about this at the San Francisco blog dinner last week, but because of his recent affiliation with Microsoft he seems to be getting a certain level of unjustifiable crap lately. At the same blogging dinner, someone who should know better referred to Hugh as "just another Microsoft flogger." More recently, at the Girl Geek Dinner , he recently wrote , Sarah Blow told him that before he arrived at the event,people were speculating there was speculating on Gaping Void "being assimilated by Microsoft." I think the reverse is more likely, and good for Sarah for telling Hugh what was saying when he was not present to hear it. Hugh, as usual took the comments in stride down the high road. I don't blame people for speculating. That's what people do. Personally, Hugh gives me something for free. He makes me laugh more than once a week. He manages to bite the hypocrites without being cruel. He gives me blog pics nsights into not just blogging but the human condition without it feeling like a tutorial. He does it for free. My thanks to Microsoft, Thomas Mahon and Stormhoek for allowing him that luxury.

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In the third excerpt from The Era of Choice: The Ability to Choose and Its Transformation of Contemporary Life, Edward C. Rosenthal looks at whether the abundance of choice can actually negate choice—leaving us with no choice at all. The first excerpt can be found here . Thus far, I have argued that human beings have faced far more choices than ever before, and that this abundance of choice has significantly altered our lives. I need to point out, however, that the presence of choice, especially when it is overwhelming, can have the effect of negating itself. In this inversion of choice, too much choice can equal none at all. Suppose you need, for example, a phone of some sort, and walk into an electronics store with ten minutes left on your lunch hour. There you are with maybe seventy phones in front of you. Such a situation kurs xml an be bewildering, intimidating, and even paralyzing. Not knowing where to start, and not having all day either, you could well walk out speechless and empty-handed. We often take the vast selection available in stores for granted, but if you were to transport most people from outside the West and plunk them down in the shampoo aisle of the local megadrug store, their wide-eyed, open-mouthed bewilderment would shock you. The inversion of choice is shaping both consumer behavior as well as business’s responses to it.

Remember when people dismissed the charges that key Saudi figures and members of the royal family were flown out of the country? They said that no one was flown out before airspace was open to everyone. They also avoided the question this raised--was any thorough questioning done? As it turns out, there were some flights that were never reported . The Sept. 11 commission examined the Saudi flights in its final report last year, and it found that no Saudis had been allowed to leave before national airspace was reopened on Sept. 13, 2001; that there was no evidence of "political intervention" by the White House; and that the F.B.I. had done a "satisfactory screening" of the departing Saudis to ensure they did not have information relevant to the attacks. The documents obtained by Judicial Watch, with major passages heavily deleted, do not appear to contradict directly any of those central telemarketing lead generation indings, but they raise some new questions about the episode. The F.B.I. records show, for instance, that prominent Saudi citizens left the United States on several flights that had not been previously disclosed in public accounts, including a chartered flight from Providence, R.I., on Sept. 14, 2001, that included at least one member of the Saudi royal family, and three flights from Las Vegas between Sept. 19 and Sept. 24, also carrying members of the Saudi royal family. The government began reopening airspace on Sept. 13, but many flights remained grounded for days afterward.