hey hey! it looks like it was annoying central in west hollywood the other day at millions of milkshakes when spencer pratt, heidi montag, the kardashian sisters (kim, kourtney & khloe) and perez hilton (looking like a golden goose in his awful yellow outfit - the pants and the top totally clash - what was he thinking?!?) were serving up brand new personally inspired milkshake flavors with an extra dose of gross (obviously for an appearance fee - they certainly weren"t making milkshakes for free!) .
Now don"t get me wrong - i love milkshakes but the thought of spencer, heidi or perez (also promoting his new "book" - which would probably make my eyes bleed....) making my milkshake totally turns my stomach - whoever thought it was a good idea to garner a bit of press with this lame ass group seriously needs to have their head checked! popbytes over & out for now....xoxo
Hamas and Israel reached a cease-fire in June 2008 under the guidance of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. The cease-fire is now over and there an all out ware there Gaza. Each side is blaming the other for breaking the cease-fire. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Saturday blamed Hamas for breaking a cease-fire with Israel. Palestinians are claiming that it was Israel who broke the cease-fire.
CNN is doing a little fact check. Please watch
I think I have decided that I love Dallas Clayton (& Sri for introducing me!). You should totally subscribe to his blog. He writes stuff like this.
GETTING QUIT
When was the last time you painted your face?
Not for any reason, or special day,
just for fun, to look like an animal you appreciate
or to give yourself a cool moustache
or a teardrop, like a prisoner who has killed someone.
How would your boss feel about that?
He"d probably think it was awesome and give you a raise.
And if he didn"t?
Well, that"s not the kind of place you need to be working anyhow.
& this.
BEST
Just before bed
I kiss my son
and ask him what he thinks he will dream about.
He responds:
"About a forest, with a big pond, and rainbow, and there are unicorns there
under the rainbow and they are playing tag with me, and my dad is there too."
I consider this a victory for the forces of good.
....Once you have subscribed to his blog, you should read An Awesome Book by him. I’m telling you, it’s an excellent way to kick off 2009. It starts like this.
University of Pennsylvania’s Authentic Happiness site has lots of tests you can use to measure your satisfaction in various areas. Honestly if you’re not sure where to begin this year, or what to tackle, these tests might help you out a lot. Props, Dr Martin Seligman! You are awesome!
Ahoy, I spy a saccharine beast!
Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke. An oldie but a goodie.
Nice things & good ideas: LOVE Revolution. Really good… see?
I want to start a revolution. Not the kind of revolution we"re used to; not a loud one, not a violent one, not one that makes headlines or one that leads to fame and glory. I want to start a revolution in me, and you, everyone who reads this blog, and your family and your friends and the people you meet every day from now on. I don"t want a lot from you, it doesn"t take a lot, it only takes love.
Faking Fashion is a cute Livejournal community (you’ll need to join it) with lots of fashion editorials. I like this Lingerie shoot from A4. It makes me think of a wide-eyed girl who has just moved to the big city & is in her first apartment.
Your Astrological Sign May Not Be What You Think It Is! Hmmm… I do have a lot of Leo traits. How about you? Does shifting back a sign make more sense to you?
Want to go raw in 2009? Raw Food Blog is an awesome resource for absolute beginners. The group blog at We Like It Raw is fantastic too!
Tarotscopes by HiC for 2009. I love HiC, he is amazing, & his tarotscopes fill me with wonder, excitement & hope.
How To Feel Like The Incredible Hulk In 2009 from Tim Ferriss. In 17 minutes, he explains exactly how he conquered his fears of swimming, language learning & ballroom dancing by questioning "obvious" guidelines & dogmatic teaching. Woo woo! Use his knowledge to achieve your own amazing goals this year.
Ever wanted a t-shirt of Obama riding a unicorn? I know you have! Chris Bishop has got your back!
Oh my god! AUDREY PUT HIS BLOG TOGETHER! YAY! I know you’re all excited, & for god’s sake, please pass the URL on to the boys you know who need his help. Boy Therapy is the new jam.
A girl went through a break-up & made a three-part mixtape: sadness, bitterness & acceptance. You’ll need to join the community to see it, but it’s worth it, I promise!
I love Ellen Von Unwerth.
69 Questions To Ask To Review Your Blog. Thanks, Darren! We bloggers LOVE you for all your hard work & extreme awesomeness.
Check out your horoscope at AstrologyZone! I LOVE Susan Miller’s horoscopes, they are SO GREAT, & my one for January almost gave me palpitations from excitement!
Her Balloon Happiness is the best Flickr pool ever! Ever ever! Sometimes I wonder if it was started by a fetishist, but who cares, it’s cute & it makes me smile.
Balloons & Fireworks is a good one too.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, Windows users! There is now a version of Poladroid for you! Just what you need to tide you over until you get a Mac… Hee hee hee… Evil plans!
Steve Pavlina just wrote two mind-blowing posts about his marriage — which he has been in for 15 years — & his decision to explore polyamory. I like him even more than I did & I think he is completely awesome for sharing all of this stuff with the world. He is not the only person who is in a committed relationship & feels like that, so I think he is doing the world an enormous service by being so open & authentic. Check out 2009 Focus – Intimate Relationships first, & then Polyamorous Relationship Q&A. I am so excited for him having made this decision & I’m really looking forward to reading about how it’s all going. Maybe next year when I see him at the Blog World Expo he’ll have five women on each arm, like a true spiritual player!
“The truth is that I love connecting with Erin physically and emotionally, and I want to enjoy that kind of connection with other women too. I can use self-discipline to try to deny those feelings, but that would require turning my back on the principle of Love, which is a big no-no. In this case I have to follow my heart.”
A new year’s wish from Neil Gaiman.
Tim Ferriss writes about Things I’ve Learned & Loved In 2008.
Okay, that’s all I have for you today. I hope it keeps you busy this weekend! Big love!
License Plate Bags.If you are looking for a unique bag, then here is something which will interest you: "License Plate Bags". These bags are made from car license plates and each of this is unique (no two are the same; all the plates are different) as correctly stated by designers of Little Earth show on their website. They start from 45 euros (plus shipping and handling).
Dave Cheong had an interesting piece this week on bootstrapping. It was a nice, simple review of the concept.
"A bootstrapper is someone who uses his own time, money and resources to get a business launched....," Cheong writes. Then he asks every bootstrapper's favorite question: Isn't that crazy? I had to laugh, but I love his answer:Maybe, but there is a method to my madness. Raising money with outside funds may be appropriate for some businesses, but..... If I was starting a company which required lots of initial funds (eg massive infrastructure, marketing, people, tools etc), then I wouldn't be able to bootstrap.But the real art in his article was his summation of the attraction of bootstrapping:When you have less money, you have less bull-crap. We don't have 10 people in meetings that last for 3 hours. We don't spend 2 months writing design documents before we start coding. We don't go on expensive trips to meet clients or chase a sale. We don't need to appease investors.
Madonna is planning to adopt - again, according to reports.
The Material Girl - who divorced husband Guy Ritchie in November - controversially adopted David Banda from Malawi in 2006.
And she is now to add 4-year-old Mercy James - whose grandparents are too poor to care for her - to her brood.
The singer, 50, has already signed the adoption papers - and is set to fly to the poverty-stricken country with her rumored lover Alex Rodriguez to pick up the tot.
A source tells Star magazine, "She"s hoping to bring the toddler home by early next year."
"It breaks our hearts to know she will leave us, but adoption is best for her," Mercy"s grandfather, Saxon Maunde, said.
Until the the star adopted David, Malawi had not permitted foreign adoptions. Madonna has since moved back to New York City with son Rocco, 8, and daughter Lourdes, 12.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM). Started by First Lady Betty Ford, a breast cancer survivor herself, and her daughter Susan in 1985, NBCAM has made great strides both by increasing early detection of this disease and erasing the stigma that was once attached to it.
A number of pink ribbon products are promoted during October with a portion of the proceeds going to help eradicate breast cancer. One that's particularly attractive for wine lovers is this wine opener and wine glass set from The Wine Enthusiast. The set includes two Riedel Vinum Pink Rose Wine Glasses and the all-in-one lever style Pink Rabbit Corkscrew Kit. Fifteen percent of Riedel's proceeds are being donated to the Living Beyond Breast Cancer Foundation. Five percent of Metrokane's proceeds are being donated to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
To learn more about NBCAM and to download a variety of free material, visit the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month Web site.
Leonardo DiCaprio reunites with Titanic co-star Kate Winslet as they take pictures together at Paramount Vantage"s premiere of Revolutionary Road held at Mann Village Theater in Westwood, California on Monday Night.
Leo, now 34, was a mere 23 when he filmed Titanic! Kate is now 33 and was only 22 during her Titanic days. Where has the time gone?!?!
First time I met Sarah in the spring of 1995, she jumped away from me and sprinted out a half open door. I finally caught up with her in a neighbor"s backyard a few houses away. Since that moment, she"s been my near constant companion and friend, showing an uncommon loyalty and dedication I"ve never before have witnessed.
Our first big adventure was a cross country trip to Idaho late that same summer. In no particular hurry, we took to the back roads, sleeping at natural forest campgrounds and even out under the stars in empty cow pastures. Despite being August, the nights in the mountains were chilly, and Sarah would climb into my sleeping bag and settle down by my feet. I worried she would suffocate so I would open the bag just a bit at its far end, and she would poke her head out. I found it comical the idea of a two-headed sleeping bag.
That fall, I took Sarah backpacking at the Selway River with some other graduate students from my department. At one spot, an enormous boulder loomed 3 meters above the churning whitewater. We took turns jumping off the rock and into the river. On my second go, I surfaced to see my friend"s frantically gesticulating towards the water where to my shock, I saw Sarah furiously dog paddling towards me. She had leapt off a 3 meter rock into furious whitewater to follow me. I grabbed her by the collar and swam hard for the shore before we could be swept over a series of rapids downstream. On shore, and breathless, I hugged her and whispered to her "You crazy, crazy dog. You are amazing!" I knew she was something special.
The rock from which Sarah leapt
A few years later I was waterskiing at Squam Lake in New Hampshire. As the boat towed me by our dock on Cotton Cove, I saw Sarah"s head bobbing in the water at least 100 meters from the shore. She had swum out to follow me while I was waterskiing. I quickly dropped the tow rope and swam over to her. That was Sarah. She could not bear to be apart from me. She always insisted on being next to me on the couch, on the bed and at my feet in the office.
Sarah in the Virgin River
So at least two times she had risked her life to be with me, but she would also save me from risking mine. One spring break, we drove to southern Utah to backpack up the Pariah River. Early in the evening, after I had set up camp, and we hiked up one of the side canyons to the mesa top. There was no trail, just a series of jutting red sandstone ledges haphazardly staggered along the canyon wall. Frequently I had to carry Sarah up a ledge, but within an hour we made it to the top. From there we enjoyed a marvelous view of the Pariah river sweeping down the canyon, as the sun set over the canyon rim to the west.
At the mesa top
However darkness threatened and I did not relish the thought of stumbling down a slot canyon at night. We started making our way down, but I quickly became confused and lost the "trail" we had come up. At one point Sarah refused to continue. I stood at the base of a ledge pleading with her to come so I could lower her to the next level. Increasingly frustrated and anxious about the approaching darkness, I cursed aloud and yelled at her vociferously. But she would not budge. Finally I scrambled back up the ledge and tried to grab her, but she darted out of reach. She continued back up the path we took, ever staying just out of reach, as I cursed her furiously. Suddenly I recognized an odd rock formation and realized I had come the wrong way. I continued to follow Sarah and to my amazement she led us down the correct trail and back to camp. I"ve often thought that, had continued down the wrong trail, I would have stumbled off a cliff in the night.
The portal thru which Sarah found our way back
So it was, she followed me in the mountains of the Rockies, on the streets of New York, in the woods of New Hampshire, and the deserts of the Southwest. She shared with me all that is beautiful in this world. And when things were rough, she was there to comfort me.
In Death Valley
Thirteen and a half years after we first met, Sarah finally succumbed to cancer. For two years and two courses of chemo, she battled valiantly. Our oncologist would marvel at her resiliency, saying Sarah was "amazing" and that she was a "wonderdog". In the end, the cancer could not be stopped. I had hoped for a good death, but I don"t know if there is such a thing. Some must be better than others, but in the end, this was harder than anything I"ve ever done. She lost her appetite, and even steak would not entice her to eat. Soon she was unable to stand on her own, but the hardest part was that she was still lucid and, I imagined, happy to be here. I held her up to drink from her bowl and she wagged her tail vigorously. I knew we needed to say goodbye, but I couldn"t let her go.
The next morning at the vet I told her I was sorry.
And now she"s gone.
Such a long, long time to be gone and a short time to be here.
Roll-up Mousepad with Speaker + USB Hub.Here is one of the USB combo gadget: mousepads with built-in USB hubs. The roll-up mousepad features four ports and a speaker that can be connected to portable audio players, laptops and other digital products using a standard 3.5mm audio interface.
Product Specifications:
* USB 1.1, 4 ports hub * Dual speaker, can be connected to MP3 or MP4 players * Roll up mouse pad for convenience use * On / Off button * Volume control * Size: 280*220*40mm * Weight: 190g
The Roll-up Mousepad with Speaker + Hub costs $22 and is available with gadget4all.com.
