Margaritas that bite ~ Buffalo Wild Wings

Buffalo Wild Wings shows that there’s more than one way to slice a lime:

Corona knock off?  Or another round of creative advertising?
The text reads: "Margarita Mayem - Five flavors. Frozen or on-the-rocks. Be warned. They bite."
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Dangerous surfing?

Click on the beautiful image below to decide whether or not that surfer is planning on going back into the water:

Run?
The photo was captured by Felipe Antonio Caramori.
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Rich people starting to "jet pool" to private islands to help save the planet ~ gee, thanks

Necker Island, the private island retreat of Richard Branson, is the global warming locale of the moment as several celebrity-status entrepreneurs and politicians gather there to talk about a world "on fire" according to the International Herald Tribune.
The best line of the article is this: "Some of them, like [Google co-founder Larry] Page, carbon-consciously jet-pooled [...]

A new meme for butterfly cliches

This comic takes on the butterfly.  Finally.  Thank you.
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Mini Clubman ~ Etch-A-Sketch Paradise

The Clubman in the Mini line of cars has at least two paradise ads floating around the Internet.  The scenes look like this:

You can see that  no dolphins, flamingoes, or hairy-chested men in Speedos were spared from these fantastic line-art displays.
Here is the speedboat/dolphin version:

 
And here’s the Speedo/airplane/flamingo/metal-detector version:

 
In spite of the everyday symbols of [...]

New island wallpapers available at National Geographic

Bora Bora came up in the Gulfstream post, and luckily I found my way to a really beautiful picture of it on National Geographic’s website:

There is a whole series of island photos called "Patterns in Nature: Island Aerials," all of which are available for wallpaper downloading at resolutions of 800 X 600, 1,024 X 768, [...]

Palm Sunday

Churches were filled today for Palm Sunday.  Did you know that at times in the distant past when palm fronds were scarce that it was called "Branch Sunday"?  Today, hundreds of millions of palm fronds are harvested every year for US church ceremonies. 
The number is so large that major newspapers have picked up [...]

Surfwise ~ the story of one 11-member family who left behind their old world to become surf nomads

Doug Pray has a film coming out in May called "Surfwise."  It’s about Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz and the 10 other members of his family who set out on an off-the-grid odyssey in a 24-foot camper.  Here’s one [movie] trailer:

 
Here’s another trailer at Apple.  Part of the documentary’s description from that site reads: "Like many American [...]

Gulfstream G650 ~ fast trip to paradise from pretty much anywhere

Gulfstream announced a new jet yesterday: the G650 (warning: long Flash load time and bad music).  It can travel 7,000 nautical miles at 0.85 Mach or 5,000 nautical miles at 0.90 Mach.  Yes, that’s just short of the speed of sound.  But the real story here is the fine publicity shot that they chose:

Oh, yes, [...]

Warren E. Buffett sums it up ~ ‘You only learn who has been swimming naked when the tide goes out’

In his annual letter to shareholders last month Warren Buffett, Chairman of the Board of Berkshire Hathaway and the world’s richest man, summed up beautifully the state of the economy:
"Today, our country is experiencing widespread pain because of that erroneous belief.  As house prices fall, a huge amount of financial folly is being exposed. You [...]

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