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Margaret Moore, CEO of Wellcoaches Corporation, explains ways to de-stress and de-clutter your mind so you can perform at your cognitive and creative best.

“At one time I prided myself on being knowledgeable about good wine. But over the years I just drank so much of it that I didn’t care anymore. Late one afternoon, after I’d finished a round of golf, a guy sent over an expensive glass of port. I was drinking Absolut vodka on the rocks, and as the guy watched, I poured the port right into my Absolut. He came over to me in shock and said, “Man, that was a $15-a-shot port I sent over here.” And I said, “Oh, I’m sorry. We drink these all the time. We call them Aborts.””

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Mickey Mantle talking to Sports Illustrated back in 1994.

Mantle, while his crippling alcoholism was tragic, was also very creative with his names for alcoholic beverages.

Oh yes.

Happy Grilled Cheese Day.

They say if you build a better mouse trap the world will beat a path to your door. And the same will probably hold true for the first coffee shop to adopt this clever spoon-securing NOTA coffee mug designed by Lee Hae Seung Scott. More »

Oh, cool.

(via @aschepsman)

My obsession for bar carts started several months ago when I saw the one on the picture just above on the website of designer Tamara Kaye Honey.

Mon obsession pour les bars roulants a commencé il y a plusieurs mois de cela quand j'ai vu celui juste au-dessus sur le site de la décoratrice Tamara Kaye Honey.

I fell in love with this object that had been forgotten and that was considered outdated, that had been set aside for a while but that now came back into our interiors. I like the idea of always having at hand a drink to offer to guests and especially to have everything so beautifully presented on a magnificent bar cart! For me, on the ideal bar cart there would be pink and colorful drinks, pretty paper straws, beautiful glasses and some carefully chosen decorative accessories. But for that it is still necessary to find a nice bar cart that will make the difference ... Well guess what, I found mine!

Je suis tombée amoureuse de cet objet que l'on croyait oublié et désuet, que l'on avait mis de côté mais qui a su s'imposer de nouveau dans nos intérieurs. J'aime cette idée d'avoir toujours à portée de main une boisson à offrir à ses invités et surtout d'avoir tout si joliment présenté sur un magnifique chariot ! Pour moi, sur le bar roulant idéal il y aurait des boissons roses et de toutes les couleurs, de jolies pailles en papier, de beaux verres et quelques accessoires de décoration bien choisis. Mais pour avoir tout cela encore faut-il trouver un beau chariot qui fera toute la différence... Et bien devinez quoi, j'ai trouvé le mien !!!

And here it is! I was lucky to find this little gem, a superb bar cart for less than 50 €! I just had to clean it entirely but as you can see it is in perfect condition.

Et le voilà ! J'ai eu la chance de tomber sur cette petite merveille, un superbe bar roulant et ce pour moins de 50€ ! J'ai simplement dû entièrement le nettoyer mais comme vous pouvez le voir il est en parfait état.

So now I just have to find the right accessories to have a lovely bar cart to welcome my friends! I'll show you soon pictures of it ...

Alors maintenant je n'ai plus qu'à l'accessoiriser pour avoir moi aussi un joli bar roulant pour accueillir mes amis ! Je vous montrerai bientôt les photos...

 

 

Images source 1, 2, 3, 4 to 6, 7, 8

yeah, good call man.

“Ugh, this new Pope is awful.”

- Sean Connolly, on the closing of Google Reader

growltiger:

There is a shoe company called “Daddy’s Money.” Go explore their website. It’s okay, I’ll wait. Yup. It makes KACHING KACHING noises as you mouse around it. If you watch their videos, you’ll learn that Daddy’s Money produces sneakers with secret wedges inside of them so that your body will look like you’re wearing heels (boobs out, back arched,  calves stretched) while you’ll give off the appearance of wearing comfy ol’ sneakers.

They did some sort of massive media buy all over the channel because their spots air constantly. Judging by their tumblr, their slogan appears to be “Who wants Daddy’$ Money?”

I mean. I know this is an imperfect world and there’s so very much we need to do to give tween/teen girls the power and self-confidence they need to grow up into happy, healthy ladies. But perhaps we could start with not naming our secret wedge shoe companies “Daddy’s Money.”

NOTHING SAYS SECRET LIKE WEDGES.

Apparently, it is Paddy not Pattys for the upcoming holiday...:

But really who the fuck cares?

“Ultimately, people forgive and forget and remember the good stuff you did. Is it hard to do? Yeah. But Clinton did it — he loves to work, he loves people, he loves to hustle. He’s a hero of mine. He’s a tough guy, he’s smart, surrounded himself with good people. And ten years later, he’s president of the world. It can be done.”

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Lance Armstrong, on the inevitability that the public will forgive him.

Hahahahaha screw off, Lance.

Yep, nope.

The Big Question:

Q: What day most changed the course of history?

Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker

June 28, 1914. Franz Ferdinand’s carriage driver took a wrong turn and they ended up in a cul-de-sac, giving the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip a chance to kill the archduke. This was the first in a set of dominoes that put in motion the two largest wars in world history—and it all came down to a wrong turn by a carriage driver.

Timothy Snyder, Professor of History, Yale University

On December 11, 1241, the Mongol warrior Batu Khan was poised to take Vienna and destroy the Holy Roman Empire. No European force could have kept his armies from reaching the Atlantic. But the death of Ögedei Khan, the second Great Khan of the Mongol empire, forced Batu Khan to return to Mongolia to discuss the succession. Had Ögedei Khan died a few years later, European history as we know it would not have happened.

Christina H. Paxson, president, Brown University

The day Johannes Gutenberg finished his wooden printing press in 1440, Western civilization turned onto a path toward more efficient, accessible communication of knowledge. The ensuing democratization of ideas had a profound impact on societies in the second half of the second millennium.

FastJammies™

Williamsburg Bridge in 1980 and then in 2010. 

The Life and Death of an Iconic Detroit High School

Built in a style of gothic construction at the beginning of the 20th century, Cass Tech was a symbol of success for one of Detroit’s only magnet school; it was demolished in 2011.

Between the move and the time when the building was torn down, the once majestic building was left to decay. A fire swept through its floors in 2007, devastating abandoned rooms once filled with life.

theonion:

Obnoxious Friend Won’t Stop Attaining Major Life Milestones: Full Report

sometimes google provides you with that moment where you realize that you don’t need to necessarily know the answer to a question as much as you just want to verify that it’s a question many other people also have.

laughingsquid:

Jerzy Gwiazdowski, Punniest of Show at the 2012 O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships

I missed out on love but I am not going to Michigan.

“Our fondness for stuff affects almost every aspect of our lives. Housing size, for example, has ballooned in the last 60 years. The average size of a new American home in 1950 was 983 square feet; by 2011, the average new home was 2,480 square feet. And those figures don’t provide a full picture. In 1950, an average of 3.37 people lived in each American home; in 2011, that number had shrunk to 2.6 people. This means that we take up more than three times the amount of space per capita than we did 60 years ago.”

- Living With Less. A Lot Less (via azspot)

stevekovach:

Google at its best. 

More on BuzzFeed.

Whooaaa! 

If you like to get your money’s worth out of your purchases, it’s best to stay far away from the 64GB Surface Pro.

Microsoft is confirming to various news outlets today what we’ve for so long feared: In terms of free storage, the Surface Pro is a really bad deal.

Owners of the device will be left with a paltry 23GB of usable space after the installation of system files and onboard apps, which together take up over 60 percent of the device’s 64GB. 

While the situation is a bit better with the 128GB Surface Pro (which leaves users with 83GB of storage) the 64GB model’s numbers are actually worse than those of the 32 GB Surface, which only offers 16GB of useable storage.

Microsoft isn’t alone here, of course, as just about every device ships with less storage space than advertised. The problem is that the Surface Pro takes that trend to a more troubling extreme: $800 for 23GB of usable space is simply an awful deal for consumers.

To rectify the problem, Microsoft recommends that Surface Pro owners turn to things like USB storage, microSD cards, and SkyDrive. Those solutions, however, don’t address the all-too-clear reality: Microsoft is misleading customers by advertising one product and selling them something very different.

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“Wait, so what is that?”
“This is Google Glass™. It represents the latest in augmented technology eyewear. It is designed to be unobtrusive and liberating, helping you connect your digital world to the physical one.”
“Ok, so, give me an example.”
“It tells you the time constantly.”
“What else.”
“It tells you the temperature if you ask it.”
“Like my phone and my skin, what else?”
“You know all of those times you take pictures for instagram?”
“Yeah, like two or three times a week?”
“Now you can do it with just 8 easy words in a voice command.”
“So its like Siri on your face?”
“Well, not exactly. It’s designed to fully integrate into your life.”
“…Will it hurt more if I punch you in the left or right eye?”

Today I'm back with an easy and very fast DIY because this should not take you more than 5 minutes to complete this fashionable camera strap!

Aujourd'hui je suis de retour avec un DIY facile et surtout très rapide car cela ne devrait pas vous prendre plus de 5 minutes pour réaliser cette lanière pour appareil photo très mode !

To make this chic and feminine strap I simply used the strap of a handbag I had purchased  for only £6 during my last stay in London. But you can also use the strap of an old bag. The only important thing is to make sure that it is "comfortable" at the neck so it will not hurt when you carry your camera. For example here the strap I used is quite nice with the gold chain but the part at the neck is leatherette so perfect for a fairly heavy camera. Of course, do not hesitate to shorten and adjust the size of the strap if necessary because the bag straps can be quite long.

So here are the four little things you will need for this DIY:
The strap of a handbag
A camera and its strap
Scissors
Glue

Pour faire cette lanière chic et féminine j'ai simplement utilisé la lanière d'un sac à main que j'avais acheté pour seulement £6 lors de mon dernier séjour à Londres. Mais la lanière d'un vieux sac fera très bien l'affaire. La seule chose importante est qu'elle doit être "confortable" au niveau du cou pour ne pas avoir mal lorsque vous porterez votre appareil. Celle que j'ai utilisé ici par exemple est assez jolie avec la chaîne couleur or, mais la partie au niveau du cou est en simili cuir, donc parfaite pour un appareil assez lourd. Bien entendu, n'hésitez pas à raccourcir et régler la taille de la lanière si besoin car souvent les lanières de sac peuvent être assez longues.

Voici donc les 4 petites choses dont vous aurez besoin pour ce DIY.:
La lanière d'un sac à main
Un appareil photo et sa lanière
Un ciseau
De la colle

First, remove the original strap of the camera and cut it to keep only the two small adjustable straps at the ends. Remove also the strap of the handbag simply by cutting at the ring.

Tout d'abord, ôtez la lanière originale de l'appareil photo et découpez-la au niveau de la sangle pour ne garder que les deux petites lanières réglables des extrémités. Récupérez également la lanière du sac simplement en découpant au niveau de l'anneau.

You now have the strap of the bag and the two small adjustable straps that were on the camera. Run the small straps through the rings to attach them to the handbag strap.

Vous avez donc maintenant la lanière du sac ainsi que les deux petites lanières réglables qui étaient sur l'appareil photo. Faites coulisser les petites lanières dans les anneaux pour les fixer à la lanière du sac.

Paste the straps to ensure that they no longer move. Your small straps are now securely attached to the strap of the bag.

Collez les lanières afin qu'elles ne bougent plus. Vos petites lanières sont maintenant solidement fixées à la lanière du sac.

Finally, you only have to attach your new strap on your camera and voila!

Enfin, il ne vous reste plus qu'à remettre votre nouvelle lanière sur votre appareil photo et le tour est joué !

Here is your new fashionable and customized camera strap! Pretty is not it?

Voilà votre nouvelle lanière d'appareil photo à la mode et personnalisée ! Jolie non ?

Day 281, 18.02.13

scrunchy face!  it looks like someone just stuck four pieces of tic-tacs in your mouth!

Why is everybody so concerned about work-life balance?

According to one urban legend, based on 1950s pop psychology*, workaholics are greedy and selfish people who are bound to die from a heart attack.

Not really. As the great David Ogilvy once said: "Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work." This is especially true if your work is meaningful.

Most of the studies on the harmful effects of excessive work rely on subjective evaluations of work "overload." They fail to disentangle respondents' beliefs and emotions about work. If something bores you, it will surely seem tedious. When you hate your job, you will register any amount of work as excessive — it's like forcing someone to eat a big plate of food they dislike, then asking if they had enough of it.

Overworking is really only possible if you are not having fun at work. By the same token, any amount of work will be dull if you are not engaged, or if you find your work unfulfilling.

Maybe it's time to redefine the work-life balance — or at least stop thinking about it. Here are some considerations:

Hard work may be your most important career weapon. Indeed, once you are smart-enough or qualified to do a job, only hard work will distinguish you from everyone else. Workaholics tend to have higher social status in every society, including laidback cultures like those found in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, or South America. Every significant achievement in civilization (from art to science to sport) is the result of people who worked a lot harder than everyone else, and also happened to be utterly unconcerned about maintaining work-life balance. Exceptional achievers live longer, and they pretty much work until their death. Unsurprisingly, the 10 most workaholic nations in the world account for most of the world's GDP.

Engagement is the difference between the bright and the dark side of workaholism. Put simply, a little bit of meaningless work is a lot worse for you than a great deal of meaningful work. Work is just like a relationship: Spending one week on a job you hate is as dreadful as spending a week with a person you don't like. But when you find the right job, or the right person, no amount of time is enough. Do what you love and you will love what you do, which will also make you love working harder and longer. And if you don't love what you are doing right now, you should try something else — it is never too late for a career change.

Technology has not ruined your work-life balance, it has simply exposed how boring your work and your life used to be. Did you ever try to figure out why it is so hard to stop checking your smartphone, even when you are having dinner with a friend you haven't seen in ages, celebrating your anniversary, watching a movie, or out on a first date? It's really quite simple: None of those things are as interesting as the constant hum of your e-mail, Facebook, or Twitter account. Reality is over-rated, especially compared to cyberspace. Technology has not only eliminated the boundaries between work and life, but also improved both areas.

People who have jobs, rather than careers, worry about work-life balance because they are unable to have fun at work. If you are lucky enough to have a career — as opposed to a job — then you should embrace the work-life imbalance. A career provides a higher sense of purpose; a job provides an income. A job pays for what you do; a career pays for what you love. If you are always counting the number of hours you work (e.g., in a day, week, or month) you probably have a job rather than a career. Conversely, the more elusive the boundaries between your work and life, the more successful you probably are in both. A true career isn't a 9-5 endeavor. If you are having fun working, you will almost certainly keep working. Your career success depends on eliminating the division between work and play. Who cares about work-life balance when you can have work-life fusion?

Complaining about your poor work-life balance is a self-indulgent act. The belief that our ultimate aim in life is to feel good makes no evolutionary sense. It stems from a distorted interpretation of positive psychology, which, in fact, foments self-improvement and growth rather than narcissistic self-indulgence. This misinterpretation explains why so many people in the industrialized Western world seek attention by complaining about their poor work-life balance. It may also explain the recent rise of the East vis-à-vis the West — you will not see many people in Japan, China, or Singapore complain about their poor work-life, even though they often work a lot harder. Unemployment and stagnation are in part the result of prioritizing leisure and pleasure over work.

In short, the problem is not your inability to switch off, but to switch on. This is rooted in the fact that too few people work in careers they enjoy. The only way to be truly successful is to follow your passions, find your mission, and learn how to embrace the work-life imbalance.

*Friedman, M.; Rosenman, R. (1959). "Association of specific overt behaviour pattern with blood and cardiovascular findings." Journal of the American Medical Association (169): 1286-1296]

buzzfeed:

So BuzzFeed received an email from Beyonce’s publicity team asking us not to use these wire photos in our post about how fierce Beyonce was during her half-time show.

Being an internet company is hard.