Fake beach website ~ a national prank in the UK
“The Official Website of Porthemmet Beach” has been drawing attention in the UK. The site calls it “The best beach in Cornwall!” Except for the fact that it doesn’t exist.
But why would anyone think that there are warm-water beaches with coral and pods of dolphins anywhere nearby? Maybe they don’t.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we [...]
Don’t worry ~ the brokers say that things are going to be okay
I have two general rules that I follow when it comes to investing: 1) Don’t trust people to give you good, sound advice if they have a stake in your making a decision in one way over another and 2) don’t trust people who have to advertise that they take "ethics" training.
For me, this means [...]
Korean funerary figures ~ Journey to Grave, Dance to Paradise
Laurel Kendall of the American Museum of Natural History gave a speech on Wednesday night in conjunction with the Korea Society. The title of the talk was “Journey to the Grave, Dance to Paradise: Shamanic Rituals for the Dead” (available here in MP3 format). The speech helps to mark the opening of a new exhibit [...]
“Welcome to Paradise” ~ a spiritually defunct town
A 2006 feel-good, faith-based film called “Welcome to Paradise” will be released on DVD in early October. It stars Crystal Bernard, of Wings fame, and Brian Dennehy. The premise of the movie is that a pastor from the big city is called to move to the small town of “Paradise” (yes, there are [...]
Adobe ~ the designers’ designers ~ don’t even get it
Anyone going to the Adobe design paradise "MAX 2007" in Chicago this weekend? This flier is what they sent out to advertise this year’s event:
It’s pretty, but not pretty compelling. You would think that people who do design for designers would reach beyond the ocean of cliches. But I love Adobe products, so I [...]
War in the paradise of the Pacific Northwest
When discussing regions of war, we often don’t think first of the Northwest — the area roughly delineated by British Columbia to Wyoming and across to Northern California. Andrew Wagenhoffer has a review here of the book Fighting for Paradise: A Military History of the Pacific Northwest by Kurt R. Nielsen.
Wagenhoffer says that [...]
Can the Lobster pinch at the iPhone?
Designs that proclaim to perhaps take aim at the iPhone deserve a look, whether they’re very good or not. Danilo Mangini a designer from Design+Wave in Italy has come up with this little number, which is called "Lobster":
I found this gadget by way of this post on the Times Eye blog, which has even [...]
Can Jellyfish.com take the sting out of shopping?
I was thinking today about writing a post on the MSN butterfly, but luckily I don’t have to. Instead I came across this little number from the shopping site Jellyfish.com:
Is that a squished MSN butterfly? Amazing! Although I’m not really sure what the heck a jellyfish has to do with a butterfly…has [...]
Chocolate ~ the one product that isn’t advertised with paradise ~ even though it’s grown there
Chocolate is rarely advertised with paradise, even though cocoa is actually grown in tropical places. Mounds and Almond Joy are the obvious exclusions, as they are actually marketed more as coconut with chocolate than chocolate with coconut. But cocoa is grown in fairly warm climates and rarely gets credit for it.
Some of the [...]
Thank global warming ~ soon you will be surfing at your beach house in upper Newfoundland
In case anybody missed out on the article “Hooray for Global Warming ~ Surf’s Up!” from James S. Robbins in the National Review on August 8, 2006, I wanted to make it resurface. It is especially encouraging for people who are investing now in Canadian beachfront property.
There are two important quotes from Mr. Robbins’ [...]
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