I don’t understand why Microsoft thinks the “Scroogled” Campaign is a good idea.
It’s so bad. So so so bad.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57613803-71/microsofts-latest-scroogled-ad-chromebooks-a-brick/
I want to see Yann Tiersen in concert.
Guinness Beer Commercial Is The Most Bromantic Thing Ever
"Beer commercials are generally pretty juvenile. For the most part, they depict men as unfeeling doofuses who only want to hook up with hot women and watch sports without being bothered by their wives. A poignant new ad from Guinness flips the switch by presenting a group of athletic, beer-drinking men who are defined as much by their kindness as their physical strength.” - Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/new-guinness-ad-breaks-the-mold-2013-9)
(Source: fitvillains)
Things that are awesome: Google using data to figure out ways to help their employees eat less M&M's, drink more water, and be healthier →
Google employees, greedy for free M&MS have been tricked by the tech firm into reducing their consumption by a crack team of data analysts employed by the search engine giant.
50 years ago today:
A quarter of a million people, human beings who generally had spent their lives treated as something less, stood shoulder to shoulder across that vast lawn, their hearts beating as one. Hope on the line. When hope was an increasingly scarce resource.
Those are the opening words from Clarence B. Jones' book, “Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation."
Jones worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr. to prepare his most famous speech and writes about his role in the Civil Rights Movement.
In 2011 Fresh Air’s Dave Davies spoke to Clarence B. Jones about his book and his relationship to Dr. King. You can hear the interview here.
photo via crooked indifference
Monday night dinner at Toast in Pittsburgh. Feels like you’re eating in a giant wine cellar with fantastic music and great food.
I dropped my Dyson vacuum down a flight of stairs yesterday.
And it still works. Go Dyson.
