Derek Scruggs

Don’t look at these. (Courtesy of the always-distracting Linky & Dinky)

Seth’s got a pebble in his shoe about drop-down boxes for choosing your state and country in e-commerce applications. I can see his point, but there is a solution. On all modern browsers, typing the first character of the state/country your looking for takes you to the first one option that matches that character. So […]

It may sound a little cold, but marriage is a project, just like everything else on your to-do list. So why not use Getting Things Done as Marriage Counseling? I actually use some Getting Things Done (aff.) techniques with my marriage, notably having reminders and to-do items related to being a good husband – remembering […]

I’ve long admired Marketing Sherpa’s dedication to bringing good information to marketers, particularly corporate marketers, who generally don’t have access to the leading edge stuff promulgated by hyper-focused niche entrepreneurs.
And since I’m a big fan of split testing, I especially like to see products that help you figure out how, what and when to […]

Happy Valentine’s Day! Unless you live in Saudi Arabia, where the religious police make the Church Lady look like Timothy Leary.
 

Weird. Today I got an invitation from an Orkut member to join his circle of friend. Orku has completely fallen off my radar – I haven’t logged in for several months. But I recently read a couple of interesting factoids about Orkut:

It’s popular in Brazil, which accounts for an amazing 63% of users(!)
It’s attracting a […]

People (okay, guys) of a certain age may remember Space Invaders. Relive it with Notepad Invaders.
Hat tip: PigPog

I stumbled accros MarketingSalaries.com today (courtesy of Rick Bruner). It’s a useful site if you’re wondering about your value in the marketing jobs market.
But the real cool thing is the funky Flash thumbnail thingies they have on the salary calculator form. It’s very subtle.
I didn’t notice at first but then I couldn’t stop looking […]

I’m not sure whether to be impressed or feel sorry for the “ball.”

Responding to Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons’ post of the same title as this one:
I don’t have a problem with the commercial, but it seems to me you’re wasting your breath trying to explain it. It was - what? - 30 seconds long? Like a joke, you either get it or you don’t. Trying to […]