Continuing with the theme of “Hands-Free on the road,” my pick of the week goes to Parrot.com’s viral video campaign.
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Inspirations for SS 08’ collections this season have been neon colors and 80’s new wave meet funky 90’s nu rave. For fashion designer Alnea Miskiv her inspirations came from her background in architecture and Peg Bundy ????
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Last month Netflix announced the following: “We wanted to let you know we will be eliminating Profiles, the feature that allowed you to set up separate DVD Queues under one account, effective September 1, 2008.” Many dedicated customers were shocked by this announcement and went into action.
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If you’ve seen Coldplay on the new i-Tunes commercial then you know about their new song “Viva La Vida.” A band called Creaky Boards is accusing Coldplay of plagiarism saying that Chris Martin used their song “The Songs I didn’t Write.” The video points out the similarities in the songs, but Coldplay’s reps think differently. Source: Youtube NIECEE's TAKE AWAYS: Leveraging social networks. Creaky Boards figured they could make a point via Youtube and while gaining ...
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In this episode Leonard and Sheldon lied to their neighbor Penny so they wouldn’t have to hear her horrid singing in RENT.  Leonard had initiated the lie, and Sheldon didn’t feel comfortable because he didn’t think it was believable and that they would get caught.  Sheldon takes matters into his own hands and creates a lie that is full proof.
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Texting, IMs, social networks have led us into an acronym dialect.  OMG, WTF, ROTFL, BRB, LMAO, IDK, BFF and with each generation there are more and more difficult acronyms coming out. Eventually as you get older you start to question “what are those letters now?” My favorite has always been WTF, but with the “?!?!?!?!?” at the end.
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When I was kid growing up I had a couple of Barbies, but apparently these dolls don’t move on their own so I lost interest pretty fast.  Sorry Barbie, but Teddy Ruxpin had a one up on you, he actually talks to me.
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A store that sends you “something,” an item selected randomly among many things from our inventory, for $10 (free shipping in the US) and you will find out what your “something” is when you receive it.  How does it work?
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Last week I posted about Crimanimalz the mass cycling group that protested by going on the 405 freeway with their bicycles. Since Go Skateboarding Day was this past weekend, a friend sent me this video and have to say that's a mastermind plan to get traffic to stop for a skateboarder on the freeway.
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I attended a seminar last month, and in the consumer panel, a fashionable/hipster kid said he has “keychain swag.” What is “keychain swag??” Well quoted by the young man it's, “anything I can hook to a keychain.”
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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a sweeping ban on handguns in the nation's capital violated the Second Amendment right to bear arms. In Berlin a man named Julius von Bismarck turned a gun into something productive…kind of..
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An event that is held every year today is Go Skateboarding Day that’s done by skate brand Emerica is Wild in the Street that gives skateboarders a voice.
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I'm not big a big fan of Dancing with the Stars, but my Mom is every week when I call her she always tells me, " Oh sweetie, I have to go! Dancing with the Stars is on!" Umm.. thanks Mom!
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Cyclists have been getting a bad reputation lately.  Maybe they shouldn't be running down the LA Marathon's route the night before at 3am throwing M-80s!!
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A co-worker had approached me about joining dodgeball tournament. Hmmm, I’m a little girl and plastic balls be thrown at me may not be such a good idea.
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