I’ve been in web development/creative for over 14 years. Until the mid-2000s, you had to be an expert in web technologies to be a publisher … or at least have the money to hire the experts. The game has since changed and now anyone can be a content producer and apparently, anyone can be [...]

Who: Wonga
What: Wonga provides quick, short-term cash advances. The system uses its own dynamic trust mechanism to determine how much money can be borrowed: “Once you become a Wonga customer, your trust rating determines how much cash you can apply for. In line with our responsible lending, if you’ve never used our service before the [...]

According to the book “Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)” by Tom Vanderbilt, “Caution: Children Playing” signs have not been shown to reduce speeding or accidents. The evidence is so compelling that most traffic departments don’t plant the signs voluntarily.
Yet these signs are nearly as ubiquitous as, [...]