Maggie Koerth-Baker, a freelance science journalist and guest blogger on Boing Boing has a great post about “How to capture a giant squid.”
The article also has this great illustration:
Illustration by Michael Rogalski
Boing Boing via Laughing Squid
I hope this beer lives up to the hype of this packaging. If the imagery is anything to go by, this is going to be a pretty extreme experience for my taste buds.
Saw this at the store yesterday. Had to ask the question, why not put the screaming eagle on your car?
I would not hire this guy. Not because I don’t appreciate the effort he put into this, or his entrepreneurial spirit. It’s just that the best people I’ve ever worked with are also the most humble people I’ve ever worked with. Even in advertising, where every business essentially amounts to a greedy pack of wolves, I’ve noticed a clear separation between the talkers and the doers. I don’t really know which I am, maybe a little bit of both. However, at my first job I learned the hard way that you have to recognize your weaknesses more so than your strengths in this business. Your weak points are also your failure points, you have to be able to leverage the skills and abilities of others, and recognize their genius in order to be great at interactive.
Finally, I went to business school. It didn’t teach me anything I needed to know to be successful in business. It taught me how to think critically. Has that been worthwhile? Probably not, but at least when I’m sitting in front of a whiteboard at 3am trying to solve a difficult problem I can recall how I learned to think through them in college. So maybe those finance classes were a waste of my time, but all challenges are creative challenges on some level.
Anyway, make up your own mind. He did at least inspire me to finish my new site.
A friend of mine just sent me this. If you haven’t seen the original video, it’s posted after the break.
Celebrity cameos: Jane Lynch, Alicia Silverstone, Lance Bass, George Takei, LizFeldman, Jason Lewis, Sarah Chalke and Sophia Bush.
This is Joel Bauer. Joel is a douchebag, and a very funny one at that. Joel believes your business card sucks, and probably that you suck.
Classic quotes include:
“Can you tear it? Absolutely.”
“Looks like crap. It is crap.”
“This is the most impressive business card I have ever seen, it’s mine.”
Then there’s this video, where he spews nonsensical crap while the host keeps saying “uh huh”.
I don’t even know what he was talking about there. This reminds me of the business card scene from American Psycho.
Via Laughing Squid, but really a gift unto the Internet.
Ten steps to follow in case you accidentally ingest the Higgs Boson.
“6. If the Higgs boson begins creating mass in your esophagus or stomach before you reach a hospital, you will need to perform an immediate bosonectomy on yourself. Luckily, surgical knowledge is not necessary. Just choose from the array of probable outcomes that will manifest themselves upon your decision to perform surgery, and make the one most favourable to yourself into reality. Be sensible?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùdo not wait for the outcome in which you successfully remove the boson and win the lottery and grow wings”
Via Kottke.
According to CNN, Fast & Furious, the fourth of the Vin Diesel street racing movies shattered April box office records. The movie grossed $72.5 million (CNN article) handily beating previous April record holder, “Anger Management” and Universal’s previous best, “Jurassic Park.” This all from a movie that earned a 21% from Rotten Tomatoes’ top critics, a 24% overall rating and what Lou Lumenick of the New York Post described as “An Utter Drag.“
I think this says a lot about the state of the times that we live in. During the Great Depression box office receipts sky-rocketed as the poor and destitute sought out an escape from the harsh realities of bread lines and widespread unemployment. Hollywood owes much of its early success to the collapse of the economy. So that begs the question, does the unexpected success of “Fast & Furious” herald the new Great Depression?
The answer isn’t simple, but likely, probably not. We know that the factors affecting the stability of the economy are much different now than they were eighty years ago. And when you look at the growing divide between the movies made for the masses and those produced for the educated (look no further than the Academy Awards for proof of this divide) than it’s relatively easy to understand why Fast & Furious would do so well. However, this doesn’t meant that people aren’t seeking an escape from reality. Maybe there really are that many seventeen year old boys ready to drop $10 to see terrible movies. Maybe the box office competition was just that weak. Maybe the movie was actually good. Or, maybe we are spiraling into another depression.
I don’t know, but one thing is for sure, the success any film with such memorable lines as “This is where my jurisdiction ends”, “And this is where mine begins”, heralds something. Maybe Uwe Boll is about to stage a major comeback?
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