Daily Archives: June 5, 2014


Some of the worst nonsense spewed by marketers that need to justify their continued employment

Some of the worst nonsense spewed by marketers that need to justify their continued employment

They come up with unique names for generic functions and features to make it harder to comparison shop and make it seem like they have something the other guys don't. 

electronic stability program (ESP) = stabilitrac = advancetrac = electronic stability control and so on?

A misleading article, pure nonsense from some marketing department, or a factoid your dad got wrong back in the day — the next thing you know you’re surrounded by automotive misnomers.


A pair of peregrine falcons have been nesting on top of the University of Michigan hospital and they just had 3 more chicks

A pair of peregrine falcons have been nesting on top of the University of Michigan hospital and they just had 3 more chicks?

Three peregrine falcon chicks hatched atop Ann Arbor’s University Hospital in May, and now the University of Michigan is crowd-sourcing a name for the fledgling birds. A pair of peregrine falcons have used the University Hospital as a nesting spot…