At the etsy shop SwissPaperBeauty you can find handmade stationery made from old calendars and photos, a lovely touch for a sweet letter to a special someone. The envelopes are old photos; the cards a matching color with a blank white interior card for writing. Here are a few pictures:
Full disclosure: the shop owner and stationery maker is my godmother.
I’ve had some success with beer butt chicken in the past, but having color transfer from can to chicken and reading the experiments reported on Naked Whiz and genuineideas made me rethink. About that time, we had a surplus of wire hangers, and an idea was born:
Wire hanger chicken (or domestic chicken, as Janet calls it) is every bit as tasty as beer butt chicken, but it’s cheaper (unless you drink a can anyway) and safer (no spilling hot beer when you try to get the chicken off the hanger onto a carving plate). And if you still feel the need to stuff the inside of the chicken, use fresh herbs instead.
Fun stuff you can do with robots #53: drones that can’t fly on their own, can hover together. I’m sure there’s material for at least two sermons and a half-dozen devotionals in the analogy.
I’ve owned the New Rules of PR and Marketing for long enough that mine’s a hardcover, and that on first reading the titular adjective didn’t feel out of place. Now, having re-read it six years after publication, a lot no longer sounds new but common sense, and even a little dated at times. Mostly, that means David Meerman Scott was right, and that the book is a good collection of online business dos and don’ts. Here is a very short summary of ideas I took down:
It’s up to you to make and sell something now!
There are more photos up for your viewing pleasure. We’re currently experiencing difficulties with our video camera, so it’ll take some time until you get videos again.
An alternative to Google Maps – particularly for people who want to find our apartment – is Skobbler. Unfortunately, it isn’t perfect either: try to get a route from Hejistrasse in Fiesch, Switzerland, to Lax, Switzerland, the neighboring town…
Most creative opening pitch I’ve ever seen. Never in a thousand years would I have thought of this move, much less of attempting it. And you know how an attempt would have ended…
On the way to work, I came by a poster hawking beach tennis. I imagined lots of aces, but wikipedia tells me I imagined wrong, and it’s more like beach volleyball with rackets. Still, I had to marvel how adding the word “beach” to any staid sport will suddenly, magically make it cool. In order to increase global coolness (my contribution in the fight against climate change), I hereby present a few sports that could stand an extreme beach makeover.
Any ohers you’d add to the list?
…buy a car with a snug seat, or so a recent paper would have you believe. “Four studies tested whether certain bodily configurations—or postures—incidentally imposed by our environment lead to increases in dishonest behavior.“ Apparently, the answer is yes…
My cousin recently introduced me to Geoguessr.com, and I think I must have spent the last 20 minutes looking at StreetView pictures and guessing where in the world they might be. The best I did was 12’388 points, but I’m sure that can be outdone!