Crayola Crayon Color Names ~ Rain = Pain

In case you wanted more feeling from the images that are thrust in front of you and your kids every day, Crayola has taken steps to give it to you with its new color names.  Three of them are relevant here: Best Friends, Fun in the Sun, and Super Happy.  Here they are from their [...]

Hawaii Chair ~ absolutely ridiculous (or is it?)

Back in November, we talked about the "Hula Chair" found in the SkyMall catalog.  Well, now the motorized version of the chair called the "Hawaii Chair" from a company called Perfect USA is making buzz around the Internets.  I have to say that it makes the Hula Chair look like a rocking horse in a [...]

Palm Tree Christmas Trees

Thank you to everyone who stands tall against buying lighted palm tree Christmas trees:

Although, many people might try to justify the purchase by saying, "But there’s so much more room for all the presents we buy every year."  Not that it matters this year, given the debt crisis.
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Drudge: Joy to the Beach

The Drudge Report is one of the most popular news consolidation sites on the Internet.  They often post photos of the news of the day, some of which can be jarring.  Here’s today’s photo that looks more like a family vacation photo than news:

I think that it’s meant to be something of a Christmas [...]

High School Haka Dance

15-yard penalty? It’s worth it do be able to dance like Maori warriors. It’s so important to one Texas high school team that they supposedly are willing to take a 15-yard penalty just for the chance to scare their opponents. I’m sure it works well. Here are some links:
CBS News (includes [...]

Monopoly Escape ~ WWII Game or Today’s ‘Tropical Tycoon’

Today has been awash in researching toys that are on display as part of the kick off to the holiday season. A good place to start turned out to be Amazon’s Holiday Toy List, which is a selection of their most popular items. It was there that I came across this little escape-to-paradise [...]

Miss Landmine Angola 2008

Angola has landmines throughout the county that have ripped apart thousands of lives from their destruction. One way that the society has decided to help recover its dignity and beauty is through a pageant for women who have been hurt by these mines. You can visit the very Hollywood-inspired Miss Landmine Angola 2008 [...]

Benjamin Moore ~ declare that you are a tropical flower with their Aura paints

In one of this year’s Benjamin Moore paint brochures for their Aura paints, they portray images of flowers whose colors spill directly into paint:

They have employed a good bit of Photoshop talent to get this look just right.  So if home is a declaration of who you are, are you a tropical flower or more [...]

Heroes Star Hayden Panettiere breaks down over the killing of baby dolphins

Click on the still above to watch a graphic newscast of a very controversial annual dolphin killing tradition in Japan.  Hayden Panettiere was one of the surfer protesters who went to try to stop this year’s slaughter.  She broke down talking about the experience.  Each year the tradition gains more attention.
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Palm trees after the destruction ~ Bush visits 2007 California fires on cover of The New York Times

On Friday, October 26, 2007, The New York Times ran a photo of President Bush walking through some of the destruction from the fires.  In the background are two scorched palm trees:
 
Seeing one of the symbols of Southern California in disarray like this still provides a powerful image with a link to place — sort [...]

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