News You Can Bruise for 2001 March 22

Scott James Remnant, who somehow manages to be both mad dog and Englishman, writes:

"I'm The Queen of England. I carry a Corgi."

This is funnier than my joke, but it requires my joke as a baseline, so I don't feel bad.

Jake, for you I will throw in a bonus reference to "I saw Lon Chaney Jr. walking with the Queen."

So you have a mass market product to sell. Why not get a huge mass of data showing everything the mass market is interested in and then ignore all those data in favor of the data for a tiny group of people who are somehow cooler?