Weird Idea "seed" :
A social network akin to Facebook where you're only friends with somebody on there... temporarily / for a certain period of time.
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Monday, September 22, 2014
Taylor Swift Makes Unprecedented Move On Instagram
[From: http://thebull.cbslocal.com/2014/09/04/taylor-swift-makes-unprecedented-move-on-instagram/]
I'll go ahead and say it for all the rude Taylor Swift haters:
- Originally posted on September 4, 2014 5:37 am
I'll go ahead and say it for all the rude Taylor Swift haters:
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Dodgers rookie Joc Pederson gets pranked by teammates after first hit
Wow. How did this (poorly written) article make it up onto Yahoo?
Article posted at Sept. 2, 2014 11:35 pm
LOS ANGELES – A couple hours before, when Joc Pederson's first major-league hit fluttered to the grass in center field, that baseball found its way to the Dodgers' dugout and now was being presented to him in the clubhouse. Adrian Gonzalez did the honors, even sold it with a hug. [?]
Pederson looked at the ball, smudged with grass and dirt from Dodger Stadium. This would go to his parents, he said. His family was at the ballpark on Tuesday night; father Stu, an outfielder for the Dodgers for a short while in 1985, mother Shelly, brothers Champ and Tyger.
He noted shyly his first name was not spelled correctly. He shrugged. No big deal.
"Oh," Gonzalez said. "That's not how you spell, 'Joc?'"
Pederson didn't want to complain. Still, he said, "You're oh for two. 'Pederson' is misspelled too."
"Sorry," Gonzalez said. "Spelling's not my thing. But congrats."
And he hit him with he hug. [<- typo]
"OK," Pederson said.
He rolled the ball in his fingers. There was an inscription.
"Fister off Fister," it said.
"Ha," Pederson said.
See, he'd singled softly off Washington Nationals right-hander Doug Fister. So it was what they call a fister. Off Fister.
If he's really very lucky, and he works his rear off, and an organization believes in him, a man gets exactly one first big-league hit. And if he's lucky, that ball comes back to him and he holds it in his hand, and it stands for something big. Forever. Little jokes on the ball, therefore, aren't really necessary.
But, hey, Pederson was happy. He'd gotten his first start. He'd swung hard. He'd had a hit. And one day he could explain to his children, even his grandchildren, how he'd stood in there against a very good pitcher on a perfect night in Los Angeles in the midst of a pennant race and sort of lined a ball into center field to start his career. (It's his story. He gets to tell it.) And then he could explain to them the whole fister/Fister thing.
"Hey Joc," clubhouse manager Mitch Poole said, "you get your ball?"
Pederson held it up. Poole, one hand behind his back, looked it over.
"Fister off Fister," he murmured. "Huh."
Pederson nodded.
Poole took his hand from behind his back. In his hand, a plastic baggie. In the baggie, a baseball.
"Here's the real one," he said, ending Gonzalez's time-honored rookie prank.
Untouched. Smudged with grass and dirt.
Pederson smiled. That one would go to his parents.
"Thanks," he said.
Article posted at Sept. 2, 2014 11:35 pm
LOS ANGELES – A couple hours before, when Joc Pederson's first major-league hit fluttered to the grass in center field, that baseball found its way to the Dodgers' dugout and now was being presented to him in the clubhouse. Adrian Gonzalez did the honors, even sold it with a hug. [?]
Pederson looked at the ball, smudged with grass and dirt from Dodger Stadium. This would go to his parents, he said. His family was at the ballpark on Tuesday night; father Stu, an outfielder for the Dodgers for a short while in 1985, mother Shelly, brothers Champ and Tyger.
He noted shyly his first name was not spelled correctly. He shrugged. No big deal.
"Oh," Gonzalez said. "That's not how you spell, 'Joc?'"
Pederson didn't want to complain. Still, he said, "You're oh for two. 'Pederson' is misspelled too."
"Sorry," Gonzalez said. "Spelling's not my thing. But congrats."
And he hit him with he hug. [<- typo]
"OK," Pederson said.
He rolled the ball in his fingers. There was an inscription.
"Fister off Fister," it said.
"Ha," Pederson said.
See, he'd singled softly off Washington Nationals right-hander Doug Fister. So it was what they call a fister. Off Fister.
If he's really very lucky, and he works his rear off, and an organization believes in him, a man gets exactly one first big-league hit. And if he's lucky, that ball comes back to him and he holds it in his hand, and it stands for something big. Forever. Little jokes on the ball, therefore, aren't really necessary.
But, hey, Pederson was happy. He'd gotten his first start. He'd swung hard. He'd had a hit. And one day he could explain to his children, even his grandchildren, how he'd stood in there against a very good pitcher on a perfect night in Los Angeles in the midst of a pennant race and sort of lined a ball into center field to start his career. (It's his story. He gets to tell it.) And then he could explain to them the whole fister/Fister thing.
"Hey Joc," clubhouse manager Mitch Poole said, "you get your ball?"
Pederson held it up. Poole, one hand behind his back, looked it over.
"Fister off Fister," he murmured. "Huh."
Pederson nodded.
Poole took his hand from behind his back. In his hand, a plastic baggie. In the baggie, a baseball.
"Here's the real one," he said, ending Gonzalez's time-honored rookie prank.
Untouched. Smudged with grass and dirt.
Pederson smiled. That one would go to his parents.
"Thanks," he said.
(from: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/dodgers-rookie-joc-pederson-gets-pranked-by-teammates-after-first-hit-062902699.html)
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
The Moment An Alzheimer's Patient Remembers Her Daughter Will Melt Your Heart
Originally seen at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/02/alzheimers-mother-daughter_n_5752676.html
YouTube user Kelly Gunderson uploaded this touching video of a visit with her mother, simply stating, "My 87 year old mother with Alzheimer's knew who I was, even if just for a moment."
The short clip shows the moment Gunderson's mother remembers her daughter's name, much to her daughter's surprise. "Didn't I name you Kelly?" the mother says.
"I thought a while ago you didn't know who I was?" Gunderson says.
Her mother tries to explain her struggle with the disease, which ultimately robs sufferers of the ability to remember names. She jokes that she has moments when, "I'm thinking, 'My Lord, what in the world am I thinking about?'"
The two share some heartwarming "I love you's" as they lay side-by-side in what appears to be a hospital bed, saying, "Oh isn't it wonderful."
Beautiful."
Friday, August 1, 2014
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Monday, March 24, 2014
This Simple & Affordable Technology Is Going To Make History: Meet The LifeStraw
(TruthSeekerDaily) "Over one sixth of the world’s population is without clean water – that’s around one billion people suffering from malnutrition at this very moment. [...]
Enter the LifeStraw, a powerful yet compact and simple water filtration system which may be the solution to world’s water emergency. Its body is tubular in shape, extending 25cm long and 29mm in diameter. How it works is simple. . . cont'd at http://truthseekerdaily.com/2014/02/this-simple-affordable-technology-is-going-to-make-history-meet-the-lifestraw/
Enter the LifeStraw, a powerful yet compact and simple water filtration system which may be the solution to world’s water emergency. Its body is tubular in shape, extending 25cm long and 29mm in diameter. How it works is simple. . . cont'd at http://truthseekerdaily.com/2014/02/this-simple-affordable-technology-is-going-to-make-history-meet-the-lifestraw/
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Burger King Hits McDonald's Where It Hurts
We probably should have seen this coming. After all, for the last few months, Burger King Worldwide (NYSE: BKW) has taken its royal crown back amid strategic moves aimed directly at dethroning its larger rival McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) . The latest policy change from Burger King threatens a key McDonald's demographic as the Home of the Whopper ups the stakes.
McDonald's getting a bad run of cards
Domestic same-store sales growth for McDonald's has gone from bad to worse. This started right around the time Burger King began its one-on-one card game with the launch of Satisfries last September. The company boasts that the fries have "40% less fat [and] 30% fewer calories than the leading French fries." The leading French fries being the ones McDonald's serves, of course.
In that quarter of the launch, McDonald's domestic same-store sales were up a modest 0.7%, which isn't terrible considering the company's already massive size. From there, domestic same-store sales gained only 0.2% in October, and the tumble began in November with a 0.8% decline. In the fourth quarter, results dropped by 1.4%, which puts the December drop in the 1.5% to 2% range. In January, the downward momentum continued with a 3.3% plunge.
Whopper-size bets
While McDonald's was busy dilly-dallying with apple slices and Mighty Wings that seemingly nobody really wants, Burger King saw McDonald's unattended Big Mac and raised it a Big King. The Big King looks and sounds like a Big Mac, with two patties, three buns, and special sauce. The company even pushes the comparison in its marketing.
Next, Burger King saw the McRib sandwich and raised it a $1 BK BBQ rib sandwich of its own, only at a fraction of the cost. This was no coincidence.Whopper-size bets
While McDonald's was busy dilly-dallying with apple slices and Mighty Wings that seemingly nobody really wants, Burger King saw McDonald's unattended Big Mac and raised it a Big King. The Big King looks and sounds like a Big Mac, with two patties, three buns, and special sauce. The company even pushes the comparison in its marketing. . .
. . .Cont'd at: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/03/16/burger-king-hits-mcdonalds-where-it-hurts.aspx
McDonald's getting a bad run of cards
Domestic same-store sales growth for McDonald's has gone from bad to worse. This started right around the time Burger King began its one-on-one card game with the launch of Satisfries last September. The company boasts that the fries have "40% less fat [and] 30% fewer calories than the leading French fries." The leading French fries being the ones McDonald's serves, of course.
In that quarter of the launch, McDonald's domestic same-store sales were up a modest 0.7%, which isn't terrible considering the company's already massive size. From there, domestic same-store sales gained only 0.2% in October, and the tumble began in November with a 0.8% decline. In the fourth quarter, results dropped by 1.4%, which puts the December drop in the 1.5% to 2% range. In January, the downward momentum continued with a 3.3% plunge.
Whopper-size bets
While McDonald's was busy dilly-dallying with apple slices and Mighty Wings that seemingly nobody really wants, Burger King saw McDonald's unattended Big Mac and raised it a Big King. The Big King looks and sounds like a Big Mac, with two patties, three buns, and special sauce. The company even pushes the comparison in its marketing.
Next, Burger King saw the McRib sandwich and raised it a $1 BK BBQ rib sandwich of its own, only at a fraction of the cost. This was no coincidence.Whopper-size bets
While McDonald's was busy dilly-dallying with apple slices and Mighty Wings that seemingly nobody really wants, Burger King saw McDonald's unattended Big Mac and raised it a Big King. The Big King looks and sounds like a Big Mac, with two patties, three buns, and special sauce. The company even pushes the comparison in its marketing. . .
. . .Cont'd at: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/03/16/burger-king-hits-mcdonalds-where-it-hurts.aspx
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
This Homeless Man Winning The Lottery Is The Greatest Thing You'll See All Day
Magician prankster Rahat wanted to give a gift to the homeless guy who lives down the block from him.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Saturday, February 1, 2014
New Footage of Space Jump
"This newly released footage of Felix Baumgartner's space jump is INSANE" - SO COOL
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Apple's New Mac Pro
The new Mac Pro is an insanely powerful, expensive computer ($3,000 and up — way up). It’s designed for high-end tasks: video, photo and music editing, for example. Medical work. Scientific simulations. Designers who want to connect five or six screens.
And it has the most Applish design Apple has ever done. It’s an out-there, controversial, very brave trashing of everything we ever knew about desktop computer shapes.
It’s not beige. It’s not plastic. It’s not even rectangular. Instead, it’s a small, silvery-black aluminum cylinder, about 10 inches tall and 6½ inches across, completely featureless except for a panel of connectors on the back.
Ask people what they think this futuristic-looking object is, and you’ll hear a lot of “ashtray,” “vase,” “trash can” and “espresso machine.” Occasionally: “the love child of Darth Vader and R2-D2.”
In the typical obsessive Apple fashion, this computer doesn’t even have a power brick; the power transformer is concealed inside for sleeker looks. All that snakes out to the wall outlet is a single black cord. (It’s worth noting, too, that this computer is manufactured in the United States. No worries about Chinese sweatshops.)
With the slide of a lock switch on the back, you can lift the shell off of the Mac Pro, revealing the crazy sci-fi guts inside (and making it easy to install more memory).
The labels for the connectors glow white for a few seconds when you move the computer — a lovely, helpful touch, especially in a dimly lit video-editing suite.
But come on: a cylinder! That’s so Apple, isn’t it? This is, after all, the company that made a transparent computer (the iMac), a computer with no keys (the iPad) and a phone with hardly any buttons.
Sometimes, Apple’s radical designs come at the expense of usability. You know, like how the MacBook Air laptop is astonishingly thin — but doesn’t let you insert a DVD or swap batteries.
That, then, is the question on the Mac Pro: Is it so artsy that it’s less useful?
In some ways, the compact, stunning cylinder is a huge improvement on the hulking, 20-inch-tall, 40-pound design of the previous Mac Pro model. The new one is desktoppable and one-hand carryable. And the cylindrical design creates an efficient chimney effect that keeps the circuitry cool but amazingly silent. (There’s only one fan — not eight, as in the old Mac Pro — and you really have to strain to hear it.)
On the other hand, the whole point of the Mac Pro has always been expandability. The old Mac Pro’s cavernous interior could accommodate added hard drives, optical drives, expansion cards and so on.
But in its embrace of the cylinder, Apple has turned its Pro computer inside out. There’s no room for anything new inside. You can’t insert a hard drive, a circuit board or a DVD burner.
You can add all of those components — externally — if they have Thunderbolt connectors. Those are tiny jacks, incredibly fast, wildly versatile; the Mac Pro has six of them. Unfortunately, there aren’t many Thunderbolt gadgets yet. (This directory lists about 150 of them, in all the usual categories — storage, video capture, chassis that can hold specialized cards, multichannel audio boxes and so on.)
So is that it, then? Apple expects you to buy the world’s most breathtaking, compact workstation and then surround it with a tangle of mismatched, cluttery, external peripherals?
Continued and more pics at : http://www.yahoo.com/tech/the-new-mac-pro-sleek-powerful-and-sooo-apple-72506916039.html
And it has the most Applish design Apple has ever done. It’s an out-there, controversial, very brave trashing of everything we ever knew about desktop computer shapes.
It’s not beige. It’s not plastic. It’s not even rectangular. Instead, it’s a small, silvery-black aluminum cylinder, about 10 inches tall and 6½ inches across, completely featureless except for a panel of connectors on the back.
Ask people what they think this futuristic-looking object is, and you’ll hear a lot of “ashtray,” “vase,” “trash can” and “espresso machine.” Occasionally: “the love child of Darth Vader and R2-D2.”
In the typical obsessive Apple fashion, this computer doesn’t even have a power brick; the power transformer is concealed inside for sleeker looks. All that snakes out to the wall outlet is a single black cord. (It’s worth noting, too, that this computer is manufactured in the United States. No worries about Chinese sweatshops.)
With the slide of a lock switch on the back, you can lift the shell off of the Mac Pro, revealing the crazy sci-fi guts inside (and making it easy to install more memory).
The labels for the connectors glow white for a few seconds when you move the computer — a lovely, helpful touch, especially in a dimly lit video-editing suite.
But come on: a cylinder! That’s so Apple, isn’t it? This is, after all, the company that made a transparent computer (the iMac), a computer with no keys (the iPad) and a phone with hardly any buttons.
Sometimes, Apple’s radical designs come at the expense of usability. You know, like how the MacBook Air laptop is astonishingly thin — but doesn’t let you insert a DVD or swap batteries.
That, then, is the question on the Mac Pro: Is it so artsy that it’s less useful?
In some ways, the compact, stunning cylinder is a huge improvement on the hulking, 20-inch-tall, 40-pound design of the previous Mac Pro model. The new one is desktoppable and one-hand carryable. And the cylindrical design creates an efficient chimney effect that keeps the circuitry cool but amazingly silent. (There’s only one fan — not eight, as in the old Mac Pro — and you really have to strain to hear it.)
On the other hand, the whole point of the Mac Pro has always been expandability. The old Mac Pro’s cavernous interior could accommodate added hard drives, optical drives, expansion cards and so on.
But in its embrace of the cylinder, Apple has turned its Pro computer inside out. There’s no room for anything new inside. You can’t insert a hard drive, a circuit board or a DVD burner.
You can add all of those components — externally — if they have Thunderbolt connectors. Those are tiny jacks, incredibly fast, wildly versatile; the Mac Pro has six of them. Unfortunately, there aren’t many Thunderbolt gadgets yet. (This directory lists about 150 of them, in all the usual categories — storage, video capture, chassis that can hold specialized cards, multichannel audio boxes and so on.)
So is that it, then? Apple expects you to buy the world’s most breathtaking, compact workstation and then surround it with a tangle of mismatched, cluttery, external peripherals?
Continued and more pics at : http://www.yahoo.com/tech/the-new-mac-pro-sleek-powerful-and-sooo-apple-72506916039.html
Monday, January 6, 2014
Amazon delivers its biggest box - with a Nissan inside
Interesting from a public-relations / getting attention standpoint
As part of a promotion for the Nissan Versa Note, Nissan revealed in September that three shoppers who bought their cars through a promotional link on Amazon would get their Versa Notes in one of Amazon's traditional brown boxes, along with a film crew to record the moment for publicity.
Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off
What if, instead of retirement, we took long breaks in between our working years? Designer Stefan Sagmeister did just that, and as a result, his creative work has benefited.
Saturday, January 4, 2014
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