Entries from November 2006
November 28, 2006
What do you think of the term, Cyber Monday?
The term Cyber Monday refers to the Monday immediately following Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday, the ceremonial kick-off of the holiday online shopping season in the United States between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Whereas Black Friday is associated with traditional brick-and-mortar stores, “Cyber Monday” symbolizes a busy day for online retailers, and one in which online [...]
November 28, 2006
A sign of Satan?
Have we really become so politicized that we would claim a peace sign to be evil?
Subdivision Bans Wreath With Peace Sign
Homeowner Defies Board, Faces About $1000 in Fines
By ROBERT WELLER, AP
DENVER (Nov. 27) – A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she [...]
November 22, 2006
Police Brutality, Racial Discrimination, or both?
The video is at the end of the article.
UCLA students march to police station in response to library taser incident
Hundreds of UCLA students, faculty, staff and community members gathered in Meyerhoff Park Friday afternoon to protest the multiple uses of a Taser on a UCLA student by university police.
A Taser was used five times on Mostafa [...]
November 19, 2006
Of course he’s from Mississippi
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) — For 26 years, a man known only as Secret Santa has roamed the streets every December quietly giving people money.
He started with $5 and $10 bills. As his fortune grew, so did the gifts. In recent years, Secret Santa has been handing out $100 bills, sometimes two or three at [...]
November 18, 2006
Cheesy CSI One-liners
This is a mashup video featuring all of the cheesy one-liners that David Caruso says before the CSI Miami credits roll. He basically puts on his sunglasses and says some cheesy crap every single episode. It’s a little long, so if you watch it for like the first half, you’ll pretty much get the drift. [...]
November 17, 2006
Christmas Cards
I’m looking to design some Christmas cards and get them to clients before the holidays. Sort of a chance to show off some new design work and retain current clients that I have. I’d like to have a sort of hip approach to the holiday card. Any ideas?
November 16, 2006
Keepin’ it too real.
From Us Weekly:
Rapper and noted prose stylist Kevin Federline, 28, took up his Sharpie and left behind a love note* on the shower door of his dressing room at the House of Blues in Chicago, where he performed November 8. The message, written the day after wife Britney Spears, 24, filed for divorce, reads:
Today I’m [...]
November 16, 2006
Free Katie!
Short article from the NY Post:
November 14, 2006 — IS Katie Holmes trying to deep-six her career? Sources close to soon-to-be Mrs. Tom Cruise say Fox Searchlight Pictures wanted to include her name for a possible Oscar nod on the screener of “Thank You for Smoking” sent to Academy members – but Holmes’ camp “respectfully [...]
