Cav's Place

A company (and an ad agency) got a little bold with an ad and the result was one more proof of how a small group of people can make things go their way if they make some noise. I’m looking at the ad and the only thing that makes me raise my eyebrows just a […]

I already knew about this when I last wrote about the idiotic things that pass for morality, but there was no way to fit it in. I’m talking about the Manchester Museum supposedly taking into account the complaints of a “significant minority” of visitors and covering up mummies, because those visitors were offended by the […]

This post has been sitting in my drafts for a very long time. Taking the post number into account, it’s been sitting here for more than a year. Occasionally I’d add a link or remove another, but I haven’t actually written anything in it until now. I guess all this talk about influences finally made […]

I just want to translate a piece of news that I bumped into. It apparently first appeared in Ziua de Vest (in Romanian), on May 17th. The fact that I don’t see it in other places is sort of weird, and that newspaper’s archive isn’t operational right now either so I only had Google‘s cache […]

There have been a lot of cases here lately where people have lost their jobs over leaked information about things that either had nothing to do with their work or at least nothing to do with their performance. Of course this is happening everywhere, but since I seem to have started a series of posts […]