Entries from October 2009

October 23, 2009

Who’ll pay for Hulu?

Heard on the radio today that Hulu is going to start charging a subscription fee for its site. They already show commercials. Why would I want to pay money AND watch commercials? Oh, that’s right… I don’t want to do that.

October 19, 2009

Oh, it’s a lady!

Okay, so I stole theĀ  title line from Leon Phelps (aka the Ladies’ Man from SNL)… I wanted to share this video that shows women depicted in art over 500 hundred years. Not only did I find it interesting, there were a lot of times in the video where some of the women in the [...]

October 9, 2009

Friday Funday

Just wanted to a take a quick minute to wish everyone a happy Friday and a fun-filled weekend. Here’s a video from a Volkswagen campaign. They took an ordinary subway staircase and transformed it into a piano. Might not have *much* to do with driving a VW, but it is about brand awareness. They try [...]

October 8, 2009

Shameless Plug for Books for Cameroon

My friend Wendy is stationed in Cameroon, West Africa, as a grassroots micro finance volunteer for the Peace Corps. After her first few months in a village without running water or paved roads, she realized that a lot of the kids in Cameroon can’t read and don’t have access to books. When Wendy contacted an [...]

October 1, 2009

Mad Men according to Sesame Street

AMC’s Mad Men is officially cultural phenomenon. Not because it won a ton of awards. Not because every blogger and Twitterer writes about them. Not even because Banana Republic launched a line of clothes inspired by the show. Mad Men has rocketed in the uber phenomenon status because cute little muppets are now teaching kids [...]