Random Thoughts and Occasionally Useful Bits of Information
Late last night we were looking for another bar and decided to try Google Voice search.
Where are the bars bitches first turned into Mr and Mrs; the second time it came out as Handlebar Switches.
It wasn’t much use but we did find a new way to create rhyming phrases. 
Cadbury has been known for their unusual ad campaigns like the Cadbury Gorilla ad from late 2007, but I have to say that their new ad campaign has stepped it up.
I’d post a video of it here, but I can’t find it hosted anywhere that has embeds so you’ll have to check it out on The Sun’s article page to watch it.
article: Cadbury’s ad raises eyebrows
According to The Sun, it’s “one of the weirdest adverts ever to appear on telly”.
It’s from the same production company as the Gorilla ad, Glass and a Half Full Productions.
The video has finally been posted… enjoy!
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Earlier today I received an email from a friend who lives in the Bay Area and who after hearing of a friend’s death in Norway put together a video remembering his accomplishments.
Her friend was a famous Norwegian mountain racer, but she wasn’t expecting the response she received.
Shortly after she posted the video on YouTube it was running on Norway’s main TV station, embedded in variety of local and European newspaper websites (one of the sites), and thank you notes from people she had never met started streaming in.
She wrote me to express her amazement and to thank YouTube for helping her connect to others.
While this story has a tragic start, it’s still fascinating to see how fast the world is flattening and it’s inspiring to be a part of a product that is so global. 
This video is hilarious.
It’s the Star Wars trilogy told by someone who hasn’t actually seen the movies.
“The planet’s really bad now because of the Dark Side. And there’s this new bad guy in town… and he’s Darth Vader!”
Originally found it here: www.fishrockit.com and Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it)
Playing around with anagram generator, Sternest Meanings, I plugged some of today’s headlines.
I’ll let you read into any new hidden meanings…
headline: Congress to attach strings to bailout money
anagram: Strongish cottages contrast. Emotional buy.
headline: Panel questions Clinton on foundation donations
anagram: Inconsequent, pliant loons. Not if an odious and not.
headline: Chrysler reportedly considers selling assets
anagram: Trendy scorcher or pridelessly. Stingless ales.
headline: French minorities push for equality post-Obama
anagram: Punish shiftier conformer. I’m a stab to opaquely.
headline: Citigroup and morgan stanley merge brokerage units
anagram: Amputate adoringly scorning. Brute geek or smearing.
headline: EU Nations may sue Russia, Ukraine over gas
anagram: I’m an usurious Yankee urinates as. Grave so.
Jack Cafferty over at CNN opened a can of worms yesterday when he asked the question: What would you ask Palin?
When I first saw the article yesterday there were already over two hundred comments, but that’s jumped up to six hundred plus! Here are a few…
Attempting to read an article on The Motley Fool this morning I mistyped the URL and was pleasantly surprised by their 404 error page:
That’s “404: File not found” for the technically inclined. For the not-so-technically inclined, that means that the link you clicked, or the URL you typed into your browser, didn’t work for some reason. Here are some possible reasons why:
The office can be fairly quiet during the holidays and occasionally people forget to remove themselves from calendar invites for meetings between Christmas and New Years.
I had a meeting like this last week… not wanting the time to go unused I still experimented and brainstormed.
Here are the meeting notes:
attendee: Jasson
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