Archive For December, 2010
A retelling of the nativity for the digital age: I like the “Avoid Romans” checkbox and the wise men shopping at Amazon! And the low-tech atheist response: a billboard in New Jersey. Come on guys, I expect better! Merry Christmas all.
Bryn’s friend Beth sent me a list of questions to fill out for a “how-well-do-you-know-your-future-husband” bridal shower trivia game. One of the questions was “most embarrassing moment,” and I couldn’t think of a good one so I left it blank. The other day, inspiration struck. Growing up, the Science Center put on an annual “BubbleFest” [...]
The world was a different place in 1993, when The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing was published. But if these laws are really “immutable,” I figured they should stand the test of time and still be relevant in the web 2.0 era. Some of the examples (a lot of the examples) are pretty dated — [...]
So there’s this bread I like to get at Safeway, the Safeway Select 15 Grain bread. It’s pretty good and not too spendy. However, I have two complaints I’d like to voice. First, the bread comes double-bagged. There’s the normal outer-plastic bag, and then a tighter inner-plastic bag made of a different more “crinkly” material. [...]
Thanks Simon for sending this. The story apparently appeared in a 1990 issue of Spy Magazine, and is originally attributed to Richard Waller. No known species of reindeer can fly. There are, however, 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified. While most of these are insects and germs, this does not completely rule [...]
