Unique DUI

Check out this DUI stop. I don't think it's standard police procedure.

Open the Windows Media File here.

Beer ad

Is it just me or are the beer ads some of the best television has to offer. See it here.

Do people drink more. or stay loyal to "their" brand. because of these ads?

Few artists

"A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist."

- Louis Nizer

Lost in Translation

Something got lost in translation. At a ski lodge in Romania, a sign read:

THE LIFT IS BEING FIXED FOR THE NEXT DAY.
DURING THAT TIME WE REGRET
THAT YOU WILL BE UNBEARABLE.

from Amazing But True Ski Stories daily calendar

Gordon Moore on the current state of software

"As people make improvements in the interface, the complexity seems to grow, and I think if anything we're losing ground a bit in general purpose computing," Moore said. "They want to offer so many new functions in applications, it's difficult to simplify everything at the same time."

from a MacWorld news article 4/13/05

Simplify, simplify, simplify.

Using the familiar to do something original

"The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships."

- Leo Burnet

Physics lesson on skis

Two objects of greatly different mass zooming down a slope side by side will have the same rate of descent, but the lighter one will have the larger hospital bill.

from "Amazing But True Ski Stores" daily calendar, April, 8, 2005

As you can see, I don't look at this every day.

Turn your back on the crowd

"If you want to conduct the orchestra, you need to turn your back on the crowd." Unknown

"For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ". Gal. 1:10