Some people thought the Dunkin’ Donuts “Doing things is what I like to do” ad was annoying because it depicted silly coffee-fueled enthusiasm and had a silly theme.
They will not like the new Folgers’ ad “Happy Mornings” either. You should watch it all the way to the end, for the tagline “Tolerate Mornings,” and the joyous choral repitition of the song’s chorus, “Wake up you sleepy head, you can sleep when you are dead!”
I’ve updated (for the first time in what seems like forever) my left-hand column. Those of you who read this page through aggregators may wish to visit the actual page, especially because there are now pictures, sort of: I have embedded my stylefeeder fashion thumbnails in the page. This feature will soon be available to the general public using Stylefeeder, so go sign up for an account and try it out.
In the spirit of the live-action Simpsons intro video, check out this live-action Katamari Damacy video, or this one, done in stop-motion clay animation.
Famed Microsoft-blogger Rober Scoble just bailed from MS, and so we at Top Ten Sources updated our Scoble’s Top 10 Sources page. And while we were doing that someone asked, “Hey, can anyone find a better picture of him? He looks like Phillip Seymour Hoffman in this one.” Answer: No.
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If you hate the task of stopping for food, if you find meals interfere with your video-gaming or workaholism, check out this guy’s project to subsist only on monkey chow.
Memorial day parade, Davis Sq. 02144
Awhile ago, Becks at Unfogged posted on some contradictions of “natural family planning,” notably that it actually causes more fertilized eggs to be lost than using condoms and backing them up with abortions. She suggested that the religious right ought to come out and admit to wanting a -on Quiver-Full policy toward fertility.
The Savage Love Straight Rights Update from last month has a similar warning: the right wants to take away your right to birth control.
Sure enough, Boston Catholic hardliner Domenico Bettinelli Jr. has begun to advocate exactly that. (He’s also got a rather interesting post about how any depiction of gays that doesn’t involve anal sex and bondage is a lie because we all know that they’re all violent angry unhappy people. Or something like that.)
Next up, a campaign against self-abuse, just like the good old days.
If there is a one percent chance of any one car being stolen in Somerville, but nobody knows which car it is, the insurance market is good. But if an insurer can know in advance which car will be stolen, they won’t insure it. And if you wait until your car has already been stolen to buy insurance for it, you are committing insurance fraud.
This week I am buying health insurance. Health insurance makes sense if you have 100 people, each with an equal, but low, chance of having a heart attack or getting hit by a car and needing expensive care. But it makes very little sense to sell accident insurance to someone who just got hit by a car.
Nonetheless, that’s just what I’m doing. Because it’s health insurance that I am buying through my employer, I can get insured against chronic conditions I have already developed.
People who don’t have employers with health plans can’t get affordable coverage, and that’s horrible. Insurers, meanwhile, are stuck with freeloaders like me, which is unfortunate for them but deeply satisfying for everyone else. And until we fix the entire model, we seem to be stuck with this kind of situation where nobody is happy.
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