Evil statisticians at work

An interesting, if lengthy, story in the forthcoming Sunday New York Times magazine about how those evil statisticians help Target and other companies market to their customers. (May be behind the subscription wall.)

I will point out, though, that despite all the information these companies have on me, I still get mail addressed to "Ms. Tracy Mohr."

Once again, I've failed at self-promotion

As this writing, the cat who spent about a minute on the field at last night Liverpool-Tottenham match has 28,071 followers on Twitter.

Liverpool's Anfield cat becomes Twitter star

That is 28,059 more followers than I have.

Clearly, I need to run onto a soccer field (or something similar) and act cute.