Contact Lens for Cannibal Chickens
My youngest was telling me about this. Apparently there is a famous Harvard Business School case study on the adoption of contact lens for egg laying chickens in California -- I couldn't find the case study -- but it is supposedly, illustrative of Marketing and has been widely used in schools. The case study revolves around an 'innovative' product -- contact lenses for chickens -- created to solve the problem of egg laying chickens pecking each other to death due them being cooped up and forced to produce instead of running wild. The contact lens blurs the chickens vision enough so that they can't see each other, hence no pecking to death. This apparently reduced chicken cannibalism to 4.5% from the 20% it was before the lens. This is too weird.
Of Movies
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut -- This is one hilarious movie -- but boy is it rude. It's rude beyond the point of being offensive. The movie takes the good taste filter off and amuses with humour that simulate the juvenile in us. Every now and again though, that little kid in us needs to be amused -- and this movie will certainly do that. If you're offended by the movie, it's because the adult in you is watching. The Brothers Grimm -- This was an OK fantasy movie, moving at a good pace, with the appropriate level of action and humour. The special effects were well done -- and so was the cinematography. If you missed it in the theatre, you didn't miss much however. You can catch it on DVD. The Aristocrats -- This is a movie about a joke. One joke. That's it. The delivery however -- now that was something else. The delivery was sick, sick, sick. This is an in-joke for comedians that have been numbed by jokes for us regular folk. The only thi...
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