From Cookies to Donuts to Bagels Everything in there was just delicious!

its finds like these, that remind me why I love travel.

“GetIn Bank” ??!!

A subsidiary of GetIn Holdings, the bank’s tag line goes

“Many Ways, One Bank – GetIn Bank“

Of course, as one can guess, GetIn started life as..

Gornoslaski Bank Gospordarczy

But since 2004, the Polish Bank changed its name and never looked back!

More: GetIn Website

WowVee Episode 2: The Starbucks Mug

It’s a rant but why do they ALWAYS insist on giving you paper cups?

WowVee Episode 1: The Truth About Fish

Where does Fish come from? I take Jenny, a chinese friend, to Tesco in Prague to find out!

Source: New York Times

Birds following an Ultralight? This scene somehow made me think of Ace Ventura (classic Jim Carrey by the way) and all his wacky attempts to blend in among the animals.

The pilots of these ultralights never speak and are always dressed in their all white outfits when around the birds.

Its serious business though as these pilots and ultralights are reeducating these Whooping Cranes about the business of migrating south (to Texas!) for the winter. With their population dwindling, many young cranes are left without adult cranes to take them on their 1st Migration South.That’s where these pilots, silent and dressed in all white, in.

Wow.

Link: Operation Migration

Of all the reasons not to use biofuel, and there are plenty (including the idea that it diverts grains that could feed deserving children), this one takes the cupcake (sorry, I had a craving today). 

Dubai-based news channel Al Arabiya reported last week that Sheikh Mohamed Al-Najimi, in a message targeted at young Muslims living abroad, warned that using Biofuels… could violate their religion’s prohibition on alcohol, and hence, be a sin.

The faithful that listen might even take the warning as doctrine with the Sheikh being a member of the Saudi Islamic Jurisprudence Academy.

What the?! 

What is more ridiculous is that this story was picked up by the Christian Science Monitor which reported it with tones that the Sheikh (and hence by association his brand of Islam) was against Biofuels (and hence renewable energy, and hence our efforts to ‘save the planet’).

It gets worse, an early comment on Al Arabiya’s article declared: “THE MORE STUPID THE PEOPLE BECOMES THE MORE THEY ARE AWAY FROM DEMOCRACY”

I initially wanted to pick this up as a Sustainability story for EvolvingChoice but just could not because of the way the story might be perceived. But hey, its still enough to make me go “Wow”.

Anyway, today was different, there it was, an ad for “Metrosexualo.com”. Its official, I’ve been identified as a potential target. Do I need to change the lifestyle I’m posting up on FB?

Of course the term has crept into the vernacular but a .com ?! are you serious? I wonder if there’s a Homosexualo.com (I just checked, there isn’t, so… anyone want to sit on a domain?)

But what IS MetrosexualO.com? The site that has ‘unique & stylish clothing you won’t find anywhere’ ? Its website proclaims that ‘MetrosexualO’ is ‘Metrosexual’ in Spanish! (no way!) OK.. so its a latin american / spanish group? 

But wait.. the payment system points users to a “go.kr“ address, Korea? 

So.. its Asian / Latin but targeting consumers in the Czech Republic? Right.

But seriously guys, “HomosexualO.com” anyone? I’m tempted. Though I might start getting letters for insensitivity. What with MILK nominated for 8 awards at tonight’s Oscar’s.

Complete with a String, just in case you need to hook it onto anything while your hands are busy?, and sometimes a Free Knife in the plastic.

What is it? Its a Saucisson! Or a “Meat Lollipop” as my French buddy, Pierre Mourier, put it to us.

Try it, you’ll love it.

In a leaked design brief by the Arnell Group which also talks about the Pepsi Logo’s “Gravitational Fields” and compares it to the Golden Ratio and the Mona Lisa.

For the full brief of lunacy: Link Here

Katherine also mentions this in her Post: “Cola Wars of the Senses” @ BrandCurve

Now we all know that advertising is EVERYWHERE these days, every little object we own is branded in some way and every single bit of public space is slowly being taken over by messages urging you to buy this or do that.

But a Catherdrale? I can’t be the only one that thinks this is taking it a little too far.

Maybe St.Martin’s Catherdrale in Brastislava really did need those funds for restoration (where was the government?) but what kind of narcissistic brand would want to be ostentatiously put up in stained glass in a Church?!

Katherine also blogged this: Link Here