Often at 2 in the morning when I can’t sleep I find myself watching a commercial and wondering to myself ‘why hasn’t someone done this before?? It is a no-brainer, it’s brilliant, it’s magic, its so simple and easy and does just what I would ever want…this product needs to be seen during the day’…then I would be brought back to reality when I see the blue screen listing the accepted credit cards, the PO box to mail a check to, and the words “act now and get two for one!” Cracked has put together The Top 10 Most Laughably Misleading Ads to bring these commercials to the light of day.
It’s nearly Christmas. My favorite time of the year and although our world of Political Correctness tries to “protect” people’s feelings from getting hurt; I just want to say Merry Christmas. You can see that Norad Santa is already on his way.
It’s official, absinthe is now legally available in the United States, and Bostonist and the Boston Globe have found some good places to sit back and have a drink. Although the drink has been available in its ‘wormwood free’ form (think alcohol-free beer) the true absinthe (which has been none to sneak into my liquor cabinet from Amsterdam) has been banned from being sold (not banned to posses) for almost a century. Raise your glasses and enjoy!
This is an interesting european football video….. I am not entirely certain it’s purpose, but I do know that if the Brazilian team were to play the USA team they would have more injuries as a result of our “larger players”. Their only way to win would be to have our players move around enough as to run out of fuel.
Thanks to Dave to sending me this link of a widely circulated photograph. It only goes to show that “privacy” is a relative term….sure, most of us have pictures and information that a stranger can’t directly access, but our friends are our enemies in the on-line social networks. General rule of thumb, if anyone can see it everyone will (same goes to the hot cheerleading coach being fired after posing nude with a 15 year old student….the uncensored photo, of course, is widely available if you google it).
Here is the story, that I read from Your Privacy Is An Illusion. Kevin, who was interning at Anglo Irish Bank’s North American division, e-mailed his manager saying that he had a family emergency in New York that required him to miss a day of work. One of Kevin’s facebook “friends” pulled up his facebook account and saw the above photo from a Halloween party that Kevin had attended. Once found, his boss had sent him an e-mail with the photo attached and BCCed it to the entire office. The e-mail exchange is below, as found on the web.
Note: I’m glad that the parties I went to in Worcester (where this event took place) didn’t involve guys dressed up as ferries.
