Clara Peller, the “Where’s the Beef?” lady, lost her Wendy’s gig in 1985 after appearing in an ad for Prego spaghetti sauce in which she said, ”I found it. I really found it.” Wendy’s argued that statement “infers she found the beef at somewhere other than Wendy’s restaurants.”
Source: mentalflossr
Brilliant – violinist responds to concert interrupted by cell phone ring with improv on Nokia ringtone (via)
Source: curiositycounts
My school tends to get a bit crazy when it snows. Thus, the ~300-person snowball fight in the Quad.
(via fuckyeahwashingtonstate)
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Zona rosa Mixup record store. We are here to use the ticketmaster outlet to buy Lucha libre tickets.
Snowstorm Jan 2012 - a set on Flickr
Intense snowball fight @ Cal Anderson today
Werner Herzog - Encounters at the End of the World - Deranged Penguins
Happy Snow Day
Mexico Trip
Trip is locked in. All reservations made. Trav is flying in from DC tomorrow. We fly to Mexico City Thursday morning.
Four days in Mexico City. Map of desired sights & restaurants, far too much to do in 4 days.
Four days in Yucatan peninsula. Ruins, jungles, beaches, cenotes.
Detailed/impossibly perfect itinerary is done.
Back 1/29. If I’m kidnapped I’ll try to update my Facebook status with the demands.
Patagonia Men's Capilene® 2 Lightweight Boxer Briefs
These are the most comfortable boxer briefs known to man, for both active/sports and everyday use. I am slowly replacing all my cotton underwear with these. REI used to sell them for cheaper but no longer.
Apparently there is a new William Gibson book!
Breakfast in Berkeley (Taken with Instagram at La Note)
A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses it to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery. And the dominant form of snobbery that exists today is job snobbery — you encounter it within minutes at a party when you get asked that famous, iconic question of the 21st century: ‘What do you do?’ The opposite of a snob is your mother.
Alain de Botton on false standards and reclaiming the metrics of success. (via curiositycounts)
Love the credit check discussion at parties.
Source: curiositycounts
In 2011, dozens of volunteers came together to map the Deepwater Horizon oil spill using only a few basic tools: balloons, plastic bottles, and digital cameras. Now, a team of these citizen mapmakers are creating a line of low cost, DIY balloon mapmaking kits, enabling anyone to make and share their own high-resolution aerial imagery.
Source: curiositycounts
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