Cedric Vella makes Facebook come to life | MarkBiwwa: "If your dreams are anything like Cedric Vella’s, they don’t involve falling down or drowning. No, they involve his close friends doing what they do best, or occasionally, doing what they’re asked to."
"Youtube My Facebook" from Cedric Vella on Vimeo.
Sokoblovsky Farms - Russia's Finest Purveyors of Miniature Lap Giraffes: "Petite Lap Giraffes are very funny animal that require special care. [...]
If you have children, petite lap giraffes no problem. If child is loud, the giraffe will be shy, but does not bite. PLG’s are very clean. With training they will go in box like cats. Allergies never a problem.[...]
Diet: distilled water and bonsai tree leaves.[...]
Living conditions: PLG’s love being indoors in filtered air conditioning. If they can listen to music of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov it is dream. Grooming: a bubble bath once a week with purified water is all they need."Check out the Giraffecam on the farm.
Ivanka the bonsai giraffe and its owner, a creepy Russian billionaire, were created for a series of DirecTV ads.
Why can’t you say ‘Macbeth’ in a theater? | I Always Wondered: "It is a common superstition that the play itself is cursed, because Shakespeare used real spells from witches who, not too happy with their portrayal, cursed the play. I believe it went like this:Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Death to Theater Majors.
Another one from helpineedhelp: My recommended dream: chef. In this dream I am the greatest chef in the world. But nobody comes to eat my food because I have terrible and itchy skin and I insist on cooking tableside to provide the diner with a more intimate experience. Unfortunately, it's too intimate for most.I love the kind of content Help Remedies Inc is producing. If I had an iPhone, I might even try out their Dream Recorder App.
Is the internet real?: "We don’t like the expression ‘In Real Life‘. We say ‘Away From keyboard‘. We think that the internet is real."
Twitter Celebrates its 5th Anniversary from FOD Team: "On the 5th Anniversary of the first tweet on Twitter, this documentary takes a look back at the history of twitter and some of its more impressive tweets."wpW
In The Painter Jimmy Chen compares David Lynch's hair styles to famous paintings. American filmmaker David Lynch quit doing his Daily Weather Report from Los Angeles in November last year. But you can still look at his YouTube channel for a quick snapshot of Mr Lynch's hair situation.
Help Remedies "was created to make solving simple health issues simple. We find the best solution there is, and take away everything else. By stripping away some of the complexity and fear mongering of the health industry, we hope to make medicine friendlier and more accessible, and in doing so empower people to make their own health decisions.We think a little help, honesty and kindness will go a long way."
Great way to get an insight in today's most common problems: being bored, frustrated, lonely or, like me, curious.
Here's what happens when an Austrialan freelance copywriter uses the YouTube subtitling featuring in a clip from a 90s Mexican soap series. Only funny if you don't understand Spanish.
Shall We Dance (2004) - Memorable quotes: "Beverly Clark (played by Susan Sarandon): We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'.'"Great quote from a movie that is mostly bad, in spite of a sweaty Richard Gere.
I didn't know that: Memebase.com: "Forever Alone, Pedobear, Y U No, and Troll Face™ is a trademark of Cheezburger, Inc." We use all four regularly during dinner conversations. Are we in trouble?
Word Puzzle Universal Wrapping�Paper - TheDieline.com - Package Design Blog: "Check out this super cool wrapping paper concept, called 'Universal Wrapping Paper'. The crossword puzzle has text for every possible holiday you could think of! Design and art direction: Fabio Milito, Francesca Guidotti."Make your own search word puzzle. Here's mine:
Found at the fascinating "Etsy Schadenfreude" site regretsy.com: Sad Hipster is Sad (even more so when you see the pants she made him wear). More: 20 Sad Etsy Boyfriends @ urlesque.com and Unhappy Hipsters.
My son (of "OMG you have a mustache!" - "You too Mom" fame) is currently at phase 0:13 (I think).
One Minute Puberty from bitteschön.tv on Vimeo.
Sub City New York on Vimeo is "a short film - a visual poem - about that moment in New York when you emerge from the subway and find yourself in a new and sometimes unexpected world."Sub City New York from sarah klein on Vimeo.
You can do the exact same thing in Brussels.
Rock-Paper-Scissors: You vs. the Computer - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com: "A truly random game of rock-paper-scissors would result in a statistical tie with each player winning, tying and losing one-third of the time. However, people are not truly random and thus can be studied and analyzed. While this computer won't win all rounds, over time it can exploit a person's tendencies and patterns to gain an advantage over its opponent."I lost against a rookie computer, even after reading How to win at rock, paper, scissors.
How To Care for Your Books: 5 Tips Home Hacks | Apartment Therapy Boston: "To properly remove a book from the shelf, push in the two books next to it and grasp the book by either edge of the spine. Don't pull it from the top of the spine."The books in my library will probably not outlive me. On the other hand, ink on paper lasts longer than any legacy digital format.
tech brands with passion :: Influxinsights: "Netbase is one of dozens of companies that measure social media. They out together a handy graphic to measure what they define as 'brand passion' based out of social conversations.
What's interesting to see in the tech space is how not unexpectedly, Apple and Twitter dominate the passion zone and to a lesser extent, Google and Facebook.
Obviously, there's some inbuilt biases here as Twitter has an advantage as the conversational platform.
The other things to note is that while Microsoft and HP are in the passion zone, the intensity is pretty weak.
For the brands who so want to play in this space; Intel and Cisco, they've got so much work to do."Passion is contagious. It creates meaningful relationships and deep emotional connections with people who care about what you care about.
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