About a lifetime ago (read: January) I cashed in some saved up Karma and won an 11-day trip courtesy of the Travel Channel. I wish I could give more insight as to why my boyfriend and I were chosen, but I have no idea. To date my best guess is that they were intimidated by Read More...

By Max Rutherford The Billion Dollar Roundtable’s (BDR) research has found that the advertising industry represents a dynamic and inventive area of global business in which huge dollars flow in spend from major corporations to advertising and communications companies and agencies. Conversely, it has also discovered that diverse agencies and other historically underutilized companies in Read More...

I heard myself saying these words yesterday, “Well, really, it’s advertising. It’s not as though there is a right or wrong answer. Advertising is subjective.” And for whatever reason, those words stuck with me throughout the day, and I began to question whether this statement was actually true. Is advertising subjective? Am I actually in Read More...

(image via NYT/Blog) Remember MapQuest? Remember how useless it was? How it was decidedly user unfriendly? Remember how it was the butt of map jokes, if there were map jokes? Well this is MapQuest’s lucky day because they are no longer the suckiest map maker out there. It’s now Apple. A few months ago when Read More...

Truly amazing. Once again, science is the coolest thing around. The article at TPM says the folks at Argonne Lab are able to “cancel the effect of gravity.” So now we know how the aliens are able to hover their spaceships over cornfields. Next stop, the far side of the galaxy.

                      Who knew being bad felt so good? I certainly didn’t because in every game from Mass Effect to Fallout New Vegas I chose the path of upright citizen fighting for truth and justice. I took care of the little guy and defended villages from Read More...

Via What if? Answering your hypothetical questions with physics, every Tuesday Once again, science is cool. After about 70 nanoseconds the ball arrives at home plate. The batter hasn’t even seen the pitcher let go of the ball, since the light carrying that information arrives at about the same time the ball does. Collisions with Read More...

Amazing video. Great production. Drama. Excitement. Danger. Nerds! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, “Science is so cool!”

Science is so cool. via The Dish What you’re seeing: If a slinky is hung by one end such that its own weight extends it, and that slinky is then released, the lower end of the slinky will not fall or rise, but will remain briefly suspended in air as though levitating. Explained: [T]he best Read More...

This is Scout and I spoil her. This weekend I spent two hours researching dog food simply because she seemed indifferent to the food I was feeding her. I figured she must not like it very much so I set out to find something she would like. Big mistake. Once I started looking into dog Read More...