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"Conversations with Michael Eisner" debuted last night on CNBC. The title pretty much says it all - a real barn burner. There were three guests, including Martha Stuart and this guy:

"Eisner then sat down with Bran Ferren --"part innovator, part scientist." Ferren designed the Tower of Terror as Disney's "head of technology" under Eisner. On the design requirements of the free- fall ride, Ferren noted, "If you only kill one tenth of one percent of [your customers], it's not good for business."

Note the interesting use of the word "only". Apparently its good business sense to kill at least one in every thousand people who walk in the gates, just to keep ball rolling. That's been our philosophy at DNBU since the beginning - and we don't even have an MBA! Everything in moderation, though. We try to keep the reader-kill ratio around 1 in 500. Less than that just isn't realistic - we have needs, too.

Defamer has a good recap.