bonus: very annoying announcer too!
ok i hate sports but this is impressive for the guys in white, or aweful for the guys in dark blue
12/20/2008
this man is SO HOT (cough) - how could he be still available?
at first i thought these video personal ads were tragic and depressing - but you know what - i decided they are truly inspiring because you know what, God Bless 'Em, they are still trying and looking and optimistic enough to put themselves out there and, well, some of them could probably really enjoy each other's company so go for it! "Hope springs eternal!"
here are a couple more hotties who are most likely currently looking for YOUR love!
"trenita":
"Ronald, The Questionably Blind Pirate":
"Audrey, The Lady With The Hormones Of A 14-Year-Old Boy":
"David, The Androgynous Rosie O'Donnell Impersonator And Human Equivalent Of NyQuil":
and oh, there are so many more collected at the site below:
Dating On Demand, as it turns out, is a national VOD service offered by cable provider Comcast that airs three to five minute-long profiles of those who are single and looking. What's great about the service is that it not only gives love-hungry viewers the opportunity to see and hear their possible mates in a manner not necessarily afforded to them by Match.com or Chemistry.com, but the videos get leaked online! Score one for me!
If you're looking on love but don't have the time to sift through tons of profiles, no fear - I've done the work for you and broken the singles down by their "type," which should make it easy. http://www.urlesque.com/2008/07/08/dating-on-demand-goes-online-sends-your-heart-all-aflutter/
photo day at uncle matt's! this old timey office party photo is chock full of pathos and oddities
see how many strange things and odd expressions YOU can find in this photo - was this the result of a very clever post-modern photographer or just an accidentally genius photo?
a lot is not obvious in this little version of the pic that blogger will allow me to post on the home page so you can either click the photo to see a higher resolution version or - here is a full size copy of the photo and lots of comments on some of the weirdness you might not notice at first glance:
http://www.shorpy.com/node/5120?size=_original
this anti terrorism photo is not as intimidating as i think it was meant to be
This is a photo released by China's official news agency, in what one can only assume was a misguided attempt to demonstrate how bad-ass their anti-terrorism cops are.
how to cover your crotch when getting out of a vehicle - since it apperently seems to be so hard to do!
12/19/2008
i am still hooked on style rookie - the 12 year old blogger with an old soul!
12/18/2008
i check her blog's RSS feed daily :)
http://tavi-thenewgirlintown.blogspot.com/
she is a bit sensitive about the whole "you-can't-possibly-be-12-thing" so don't mention it! but she is rather brilliant and extremely up to date on culture and makes some wonderful observations about society and herself. I won't go on any further because she recently had a post asking people not to write about her - so i will let her write for herself:
17.12.08
i am a thing-finder, and when you're a thing-finder, you don't have a minute to spare
Today I was Pippi Longstocking for my week of book characters, something my mother was quite happy about because Astrid Lindgren was Swedish and to my mother that is technically Norway so basically since she's from Norway that makes her a groundbreaking author that wrote about some red-headed chick that never went to school and lived in a sick house with some random monkey and horse. Obvz.Pippi does not have nearly as much depth to her as Blanche {yesterday she dressed inspired by Blanche from Streetcar Named desire} does. Or at least, not any I'd try to go into now. Her signature look was twisted red braids and freckles, and she lived in a big house called Villa Villekulla with her monkey (Mr. Nelson) and horse (Alfonso). Sounds like my kinda BFFZ. Pippi Longstrompe was quirky and fun. She lived to go on adventures with her friends Tommy and Annika and liked being independent. She was rather curious and enjoyed giving people a taste of their own medicine when it was necessary. Pippi was quite rude and spiteful to mean adults that were unfair to her or her friends or questioned her carefree ways. Sound like someone you know? Hintidy. Hint. She was also very epicly cool and ridiculously ill. Still sound like someone you know? No? Um okay, moving on then...Physically I am not like Pippi at all. I don't have freckles or long, fiery red hair. I do not have the "strength of ten policemen" either, unless you are talking about Playmobile policemen, and even then I'm at the strength of about eight.
Regardless, I tried to capture her most acknowledged outfit of a jumper, mis-matched stockings, and large manly shoes (O HAI Docs). The color combination I would use myself in any outfit.Every female in my family has been Pippi Longstocking for Halloween at least once, but I tried not to use any of the homemade costume we wore. I also tried not to wear my two-tone American Apparel tights because that would have been the easy way out, and instead stole Belle's idea of creating two-tones. I ended up wearing my mom's old top, my grandmother's old blazer, a dress I found in our childhood dress up box, my sister's old camo tights, H&M floral tights, and my Doc Martens.I also wore my bloomers for warmth because today our choir went caroling. We went to a retirement home and a resident raised his hand before we started and asked, "Why is that girl's underwear showing?" He was VERY concerned. Oopsy.
Tigers at Thai Temple Drugged Up or Loved Up? Monks Deny Conservationists' Claim That Animals Are Drugged
Is this a repeat of sigfried and roy waiting to happen or something a lot cooler?
pics and video:
Tigers at Thai Temple Drugged Up or Loved Up?
Monks Deny Conservationists' Claim That Animals Are Drugged
Romantic Comedies Ruin Your Love Life: Study
12/17/2008
Rom-coms have been blamed by relationship experts at Heriot Watt University for promoting unrealistic expectations when it comes to love.
They found fans of films such as Runaway Bride and Notting Hill often fail to communicate with their partner.
Many held the view if someone is meant to be with you, then they should know what you want without you telling them.
Psychologists at the family and personal relationships laboratory at the university studied 40 top box office hits between 1995 and 2005, and identified common themes which they believed were unrealistic.
the rest of the article is here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7784366.stm
A Charlie Brown Ad Agency follows the Peanuts gang along the dramatic creation of the agency holiday party invitation.
12/15/2008
How Germans Really See English Ad Slogans
English is all the rage in Germany -- the height of fashion, except that many people don't understand it. Consumer groups would like to see the language banned from German ads altogether.
If you spend much time in Germany, it won't take long before you notice that speaking the language really isn't that difficult. Any time you're at a loss for a German word, just throw in some English and move on. For one thing, it's the height of coolness to sprinkle your German with English. And for another, even if your German friends don't understand, they'll smile and nod for fear of looking dumm.
Plus, they do it too. Words like "office" and "meeting" long ago entered the German vocabulary. "Babysitten" and "downloaden" have been adopted. Even the word "people" has been molded to suit the needs of the German language -- the term has a negative connotation to indicate folks who are disagreeable and tiresome.
But when it comes to advertising slogans, the use of English is becoming passé. Some advertisers have realized that many Germans just don't understand -- or even worse, misunderstand -- their hip slogans. Even such straightforward lines like "Come in and find out," for a chain of perfume stores, can be dodgy. It seems most Germans cycled the slogan through their spotty understanding of English and thought it meant, "Come in, but then go back out again."
On Thursday, Germany's federal consumer advocacy and protection body held a symposium in Berlin to discuss the issue. The group -- whose name "Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V." might also benefit from a bit of simplification -- pointed specifically to the use of English in advertising and said that consumers should not be made to feel excluded just because they can't understand foreign slogans.
Study after study has indicated that many cannot. The Vodafone slogan "Make the Most of Now" has weird associations with fruit juice ("Most") for many Germans. "Welcome to the Beck's Experience" didn't work so well because many thought the last word meant "experiment." The grand prize for slipshod slogans, though, goes to German television station Sat1, which used the catchphrase "Powered by Emotion." This was taken by many to be a modern version of "Kraft durch Freude," the Nazi party's leisure organization, often translated into English as "strength through joy."
The Thursday symposium comes just a week after delegates to the Christian Democratic party congress called for German to be written into the constitution as the country's official language. Among other arguments, the encroachment of English on the German language was noted. Conservative mouthpiece Die Welt wrote that "you don't have to be a nationalist or an anti-American to feel that the English advancing into German officialdom is a sign of the neglect of our own language."
The encroachment into officialdom, in fact, was one of the problems under discussion on Thursday. Consumer protection head Gerd Billen even called for a ban on English-isms during speeches in the Bundestag, the German parliament. He said he wasn't interested in purifying German, but in helping comprehension.
Berlin may be a good place to start this campaign. The German capital has just chosen a new -- English language -- slogan for the city: "Be Berlin." But at least that catchphrase doesn't exclude any part of the population. No one, after all, seems to have the slightest idea what it means. http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,596128,00.html
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