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So I am told that 27 years ago today I was born into this world.  I say “I am told”, because who knows if I can trust my parents… They lied to me about Santa and the Easter bunny for years.
This really isn’t a milsetone, but then again milestones are arbitrary anyway. If we lived [...]

As recommended by a friend and source of always different and enjoyable reading/viewing material, I recently started watching “True Blood”. For those of you that haven’t seen it, I will try not to issue too many spoilers, at least none that a pre-pubescent goth freak couldn’t grasp about 12.5 minutes into the first episode.
The show [...]

Sometimes advertisers don’t seem to understand how things will look or read after they spend their 9-5 day creating the ads.

It’s very good that Jack Daniel’s would like to let us know about their expert quality controllers. I am sure they provide a lot of benefit to the end product. However, I am very very [...]

My Lonely Planet Guide for India (which was a God send of a book) had countless warnings about scams in India. Almost each city/section had special headings on the type and nature of scams in that region and spoke about how to spot them and avoid them. Aside from being a yet another fear mongering [...]

Today I show you some advertisements that came from marketing departments that are seemingly run by monkeys who are either 40 years older or younger than their target audience and/or have IQs in the single digits.

This ad advertises that mayonnaise and chicken “is McDonald’s”. Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t the definition of [...]

A few more day-to-day pictures:

The above comic was sent to me after my blog posts on Mr. Keen’s book about Internet media destroying society. The big-nosed guy on the right makes an interesting point, there will always be a need for writers no matter where we read our news.
Interestingly enough, does anyone else notice the [...]

A recent bit of feedback from a friend and fellow blogger is that my posts lack a certain graphical appeal. I therefore have decided to introduce a recurring feature to this site where I use the power of my Blackberry’s camera to bring you interesting things I encounter on my day-to-day adventures.
Today’s edition is Silly [...]

Natural selection is an interesting subject. I was thinking, many animals have developed all sorts of mechanisms to protect themselves or to detect other predators: camouflage skin, heightened smell, night sight etc.
But one thing I don’t understand is: Why the hell do they not change the way they taste? Think about it… if a chicken [...]

I don’t usually tote things on my blog. I am not much of a toter… can you verbize the word tote? Is verbize a word? Anyway, grammar lessons aside, I just watched the movie “Stranger than Fiction”. Apparently this came out last year and was recently released on DVD. I had never heard of it, [...]

Who decided what monsters look like? Why are they typically depicted as green and furry? Why do they have big teeth and growl?
Did someone decide that green was scary? I don’t envision green as scary.. in fact I have never once seen a person let out a bloodcurdling scream at grass….
And fur isn’t scary! bunnies [...]