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 [...]

LapDome? Get off your computer and enjoy your freaking vacation instead

Product ads with paradise settings come along every day. Often times, I’m left wondering if the image is a statement about where the product or service can take you or if the people doing the advertising are hoping that your purchasing the product or service will afford them the lifestyle they depict. The [...]

Harvard Magazine ~ Autism: ‘Probing the roots of a devastating disorder’

The January/February 2008 cover of Harvard Magazine (the Alumni Association’s magazine) has been sent out and has this sunset cover on the topic of autism:

It’s a mother and her son walking on what appears to be a beach at sunset.  They are disjointed by a lightning bolt and some strange puzzle pieces.  The image shows [...]

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 [...]

Sun Chips ~ Same great taste, unoriginal new packaging

Frito Lay has given Sun Chips a whole new look. The colors are bright and attractive, but the sun-over-the-ocean look is a little tired. The wheat theme is important to the product, and I would almost rather see something like the Bank of America farmland “Jeffersonian” grid logo using these colors. I may feel somewhat [...]

Free private island from Sprint ~ only costs you $10.5 million for the BlackBerry

Sprint has done some really nice things with their “Sprint speed” light drawing campaign. I have been searching for signs of gratuitous paradise in their commercials for a while now, and they have pretty much avoided adding in the fluff of palm trees. The closest that I came to was a light-drawn sun as a [...]

Star Gazing in Italy ~ Why the Sun Shines

The article “Princeton scientists confirm longheld theory aboutsource of sunshine” states:

“Our observations [of low-energy solar neutrinos] essentially confirm that we understand how the sun shines,” said Frank Calaprice, a professor of physics and principal investigator of the Princeton team. “Physicists have had theories regarding the nuclear reactions within the sun for years, but direct observations [...]