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Company caves to moms Motrin ad backlash -- chicagotribune.com

Did you hear the recent controversy around the Motrin baby ad?

On a Saturday, Motrin released a new ad campaign aimed at moms wth young babies. Specifcally moms using those baby carriers. You can find the add at the link below.

Anyway, by Monday it was removed after thousands of upsent moms starting twitering about the condescending ad. I thought it was kinda cute; but I'm not a mom, none-the-less many moms were offended.

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Posted: Thu, 20 Nov 2008

What is justice, and how does it fit within society. This article from the OddThoughts journal reflects on this question and the potential ramifications

Posted: Wed, 19 Nov 2008

Daily Dose: An American

From the page: "Itâ€s not just the weather thatâ€s cooler in Canada: You live next door to a clean-cut, quiet guy. He never plays loud music or throws raucous parties. He doesnâ€t gossip over the fence, just smiles politely and offers you some tomatoes. His lawn is cared-for, his house is neat as a pin and you get the feeling he doesnâ€t always lock his front door. He wears Dockers. You hardly know heâ€s there. And then one day you discover that he has pot in his basement, spends his weekends at peace marches and that guy youâ€ve seen mowing the yard is his spouse."

Posted: Sat, 15 Nov 2008

YouTube - Digital TV Conversion and Grandma

Think upgrading to DTV is confusing enough for the average user? You don't know just how good you got it!

Posted: Sat, 08 Nov 2008

We rarely focus on the moment. We are always looking to the future or drumming up the past.

In our life we may tell ourselves, we can have our rewards in the end, once we finish our 'work'. But is this really the way to think about life?

Four hour workweek author Timothy Ferris passes on some suggestions from buddists monks that may help put things into perspective.

Posted: Fri, 31 Oct 2008

Ghoulish Halloween. Fun idea for Halloween. by chocolatebite1 -- Revver Online Video Sharing Network

Here's a quick video for Halloween. The recipe - How to make chocolate covered peanut butter eyeballs.

Give it a try, there goolishly delicious!

Posted: Wed, 29 Oct 2008

Discover 9 easy tips to make your family photo way better

From the page: "Getting a great picture of your family doesn't have to be a painful experience, especially if you put a few simple photo tips to use."

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Posted: Sat, 25 Oct 2008

Lala Makes Web-Based Music Easier - News and Analysis by PC Magazine

From the page: "Lala today launched a kind of free, browser-based iTunes competitor that lets users access their music libraries from anywhere they can access the Web. It's similar in look and feel to Anywhere.FM, which is basically a Web-based iTunes clone, but Lala adds some nifty features.

The way these services work is users upload their music libraries "to the cloud," after which they can be accessed from anywhere. It's great for accessing your music from public or work computers, or from Wi-Fi-enabled devices."

Posted: Sat, 25 Oct 2008

Are you a Stumbleholic?

Of course, I'm a stumble-a-holic, What a silly question !

Posted: Sun, 19 Oct 2008

Meet a deer little handful called Rupert who was delivered by Caesarean section after his mother was killed by a car | Mail Online

Rubert Baby Deer

From the page: "The little orphan, delivered by Caesarean section, was just six inches tall and, at 500 grams, weighed little more than a bag of sugar.

It looked like he, too, would face a tough fight for survival.

But staff at Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital in Buckinghamshire believe Rupert, as he has been named, will make a full recovery after his dramatic arrival.

At five days old, he is being kept in an incubator and has just opened his eyes."

Posted: Sat, 18 Oct 2008

One-by-one | Landscape photos | landscapes with a soul

If you were walking around and seen this, would you stop and take a picture or get out of there?

Volcano

Posted: Fri, 17 Oct 2008

Seasonal Blogging, Startups and Work/life balance

Lisa Rousseau writes a great post here on Work/Life balance and startup companies. Her post, and the video from Jason Calcanis inspired me to add my own comments.

I am sure we all have experianced this pull of passions, from work (career), home life, and time for ourselves. There are so many things to focus on and it seems so little time.

As for Jason's YouTube video, here's my 2 cents

1) The notion that there are "Excellent", "Great", "Average" people I would say is incorrect. I think everyone is 'excellent' at something, and many are average at most things. The trick is probably to figure out what your are excellent at and what you are passionate about and work at that.

You can have multiple passions and not just one, but sometimes you have to focus intensily one just one of your passions, but then you need to move on to others.

The person who works 150 hours per week for 12 weeks is really no different then the person who works 40hrs for 52 weeks, they just reach their goals in different ways.

Unlike the Olympics, your life doesn't have to be a race to the finish, he who dies with the most toys isn't really the winner.

I am a fan of Covey's idea from his 7 Habits. Imagine you are at the end of you life looking back and ask yourself which would you regret most, the short term 150hrs week or the life long 40/hrs week. There is no wrong answer, it is a personal decision.

Regardless, awesome post Lisa, Glad to see you're blogging again whatever the reason!

Posted: Fri, 17 Oct 2008

B.C. paleontologists seek clues in rare dinosaur tracks

From the page: "Paleontologists in northern B.C. are poring over rare evidence that the largest dinosaur that ever lived once roamed the province.

In August 2008, a group of coal miners discovered ancient sauropod tracks at a mine near Sparwood, B.C., in the province's southeastern tip near the Alberta border.

Sauropods are a group of giant, plant-eating reptiles that roamed the Earth approximately 150 million years ago in the late Jurassic period.

Until the summer of 2008, there had been very little evidence of the giant dinosaurs in B.C., and paleontologist Rich McCrea said that's what makes the discovery of a path of sauropod tracks so rare and valuable."

Artist rendering of a giant Sauropod. (Image Copyright
AAAS/Science/ Illustration: Carin L. Cain)

Posted: Fri, 17 Oct 2008

Awesome Waterfall

This is a picture of the Rimbi falls in India, simply breathtaking.
Rimbi Waterfall

Posted: Thu, 16 Oct 2008

Fredericton Family Events Calendar (Fredkid)

If your a parent in the Greater Fredericton area, you've no doubt heard of the cool site FredKid.com.

In addition to many cool activities and listings on this site. One of the best parts is undoubly the Events calendar, which is updated on a regular basis with lots of fun family events going on the in Fredericton area for you and your kids.

On of the 'drawbacks' however is you have to constantly check the site for calendar updates. So I emailed their web master for a requst to allow users to add these events to their favorite calendar automatically.

I have, as of yet, got a reply :-(. However, I was able to find a nice work around to the problem, and have sucessfully created a google calendar of Fredericton events that is automatically updated whenever the FredKid.com calendar is updated.

You can find it at the link below and use the "Add to Google Calendar" link at the bottom to add it to you Google Calendar.

Or if you want you can add it to your favorite calendar app by subscribing to the ics link:

http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/9mkg0o49dv92g72j080k8rjrq50mq68u%40import.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

Lots of the events are Free, so have fun!

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