Archive for December, 2008
You Choose – Naughty or Nice?
Life can get crazy around the holidays – especially if you wait until the last minute to buy gifts for your loved ones. So forget the malls and the crowds. Here’s something special that you can give to someone special.
On this fun little microsite you’ll find just the thing for everyone on your shopping list. Just because you don’t wear footie pajamas anymore doesn’t mean that giving handmade, redeemable coupons isn’t still a great gift. After all, the true meaning of the season isn’t about spending money. It’s about spending a bit of yourself to show others you care.
So head on over to the site, check out our naughty and nice ideas and pass them along to friends and family. Let us know which are your favorites – or if you come up with some wickedly clever ideas of your own. We know you have it in you.
Blessed?
But I get turned around
I mistake some happiness for blessing
But I’m blessed as the poor
Still I judge success by how I’m dressing”– Faith My Eyes, Caedmon’s Call
I’m not sure I understand how I have been blessed.
Don’t get me wrong, I know I am blessed, but I’m not sure which good things in my life actually count as blessings.
Is it a blessing that I have a nice home? A nice TV and Xbox 360 to play on that TV? A car that runs? My health? A wife who loves me? The fact that I was born to loving parents in the most prosperous nation in the world (at the time) and have had countless opportunities afforded to me?
While those are all good things, I’m afraid to claim them as blessings. Not because I’m not grateful or disappointed in what I’ve been given, but because of what my claiming those as blessing implies.
If those things are indeed blessings, what does it say about those people who don’t have those things? Are they not blessed? Are they just blessed in different ways?
Help me understand what it means to be blessed.
UrbanSpoon Serves Up Wichita
Urban Spoon, the wildly popular iPhone app, has finally launched in Wichita. Let the rejoicing commence!
This app’s brilliance is found in its simplicity, doing one thing and doing it well. As the iPhone commercial says, it answers the age-old question “What are we doing for dinner tonight?” And it does a pretty decent job of offering up viable suggestions. Combine its functionality with a clean, fun interface and there’s little wonder why it’s one of the top 10 most popular apps.
But our favorite aspect of UrbanSpoon is that it’s powered by people. Is your favorite Thai restaurant not showing up? Go to UrbanSpoon.com and get it added. Is there a restaurant that keeps showing up in an incorrect category? Go to the website and make a suggestion. It’s truly community-driven.
We’re pumped that the time spent on our “where-are-we–going–to-lunch-today” conversations are about be cut in half – now we just have to make sure we don’t fill that time trying to master TapDefense.
How Pepsi does poor taste
Check out this new ad campaign from Pepsi, highlighting their one-calorie PepsiMax beverage. (Click the images for a larger view.)
“One very lonely calorie.”
I’ve always thought there was too little suicide imagery in advertising today, haven’t you?
I don’t think I’m too conservative when it comes to things like this, but even I think this is in very poor taste.
If the Motrin Moms can go crazy over a relatively tame ad, I wonder what the outcry will be over something like this?
What do you think of the campaign?