If you want to be really inspirational and intend to motivate someone to get out of his/her daily grind, you always try to come up with a neat metaphor. Live your life. Get up and do cartwheels. Not so good metaphors, however, the one below…
The World Is Your Canvas, Paint Your Picture On It.
For instance, [...]

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Shocking News: Twitter Is Not Invincible.
Twitter is one of these Web 2.0 services that has to struggle with a non-stop growing community and obviously has troubles keeping up the servers running the way they should. Tisk. Tisk.
It happened a lot lately. Twitter is down. That’s what she said. [...]

This time wouldn’t have been the last time.
Urban citizens claim that cities have a certain flow. A flow of arts, spirit and even fashion. In the case depicted above us (my liebe Readers should know this city by now. San Francisco), I can most definitely confirm that there is a compelling vibe, an atmosphere caught in-between [...]

Santa Cruz Surfer Dude
Since I tried surfing last summer in Santa Cruz (see the surfer’s Statue to your right with parts of the SC Beach Boardwalk) and my surfing expertise looked quite semiprofessional after a 5-minutes-dry-practice, I want to keep you not-soau-courant-with-surfing guys up to date with the latest trend. Check out a video (after [...]

In the last couple of days I did some research on Australian and - as a consequence -  New Zealand Kiwi accents (Susi’s comback from Australia) and I came across with this video that I felt obliged to share with you guys. It’s fun to see the New Zealand accent explained after dark years of [...]

Before and After
No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted - Watch a film by Dove on how a Girl’s look is modified to be perfect enough to be qualified as “pin-up”. Dove has been doing pioneer work by hiring every-day women for their advertising. See more short films dealing with controversial topics like manipulation [...]

Improv Everywhere is famous for launching hilarious missions. Last January they decided to freeze 200 people inside the Grand Central Station hall. Now that the video got really popular (via youtube), people around the world (London - my favorite right after the NYC prank) were inspired and initiate similar missions. It does look like fun [...]

Literally
Ever since the Internet got accessible easily, an Avant Garde descended from Linguistic Heaven to educate us, the stupid common people, literally point at our linguistically weak Achilles’ heel. Ouch, doesn’t the usage of “literally” sound wrong to you? Well, if you are a representative of today’s online patrol on misusage of the English language, [...]