Comments on: Formula for Excess

By: Nick Allen

Nick Allen — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:07:07 +0000

Agreed Frank.

The BBC magazine monitor has always taken a jokey stance / sideways look at these crap ‘marketing’ equations.

So I think the sciencepunk crit of the BBC is maybe a bit off the mark.

I did offer to be ‘equation’ critic for BBC magazine, which would have helped the dire situation – but they didn’t get back.

Maybe they were too busy preparing for Children in Need – you know: signing up 50 D list celebrities and 600 tons of baked beans for baths etc.

:-)

Frank — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:19:15 +0000

You missed this one, by my good self, which I thought was rather good!

Ah, but yours wasn’t selling anything! If only you’d teamed up with Gortex, perhaps you could have been featured…

Nick Allen — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:23:51 +0000

You missed this one, by my good self, which I thought was rather good! Do you get less wet if you run in the rain?

Neil — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:46:23 +0000

Oops, didn’t notice you’d already mentioned it.

Neil — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:45:28 +0000

Of course, the BBC also published an article examining the phenomenon rather sceptically : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3794419.stm