the illustrated encyclopedia of sex
Jenni Ripley is cool, n’est-ce pas? she even makes sex easy. sort of. not everything on the web is funny, smart, and aesthetically pleasing. all at the same time. but Jenni is. thank you to the lord for Andrew Gallix who sent me this link and reminded me: it does happen. well, i have to go work on flashing my gang-signs while naked now.
[the reverse cowgirl’s blog]
Tapes of Shuttle’s Descent Show Dawning of Disaster. NASA has released audio tapes of the final communications among ground controllers and the crew of the Columbia. By Matthew L. Wald and John M. Broder. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
Anyone want to see my ass branded?
Back in the ’90s, during the Net boom, Fast Company published an article by Tom Peters titled “The Brand Called You.” The idea was for professionals to start handling their own lives and careers with the same approach that a company takes in managing its brand.
The term “branding,” of course, comes from cattle, and there was always something suspicious about the idea of bringing such thinking into the realm of individual lives.
Now we have a new kind of branding on the personal level: Real honest-to-god physical branding. People walking around with corporate logos and advertisements not only sewn onto their clothing and plastered over their accoutrements but actually tattooed on their foreheads.
The idea is the brainchild of a London marketing outfit. Students who agree to be branded receive $6.85 an hour for three hours of being “out and about” with their foreheads on display.
Moo!
[Scott Rosenberg’s Links & Comment]
Stewart L. Udall. “We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.” [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
Flying home to Boston from Vegas via United Airlines Flight #1216, stopover in Denver.
I have a cluster headache and am sitting in the back of the damn aircraft. What could be worse?
Off to the mixer that’s on for tonight here at the JW Marriott resort in Vegas. A very nice hotel, and am looking forward to “mixing” with friends from the last ten years…
Got the “suit of power” from Marshall Fields on, so I’m feeling pretty powerful…
