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What do animals talk about?

Brother?

This is a great viral marketing campaign from BMW. In the same vein as Best in Show and Spinal Tap, this mockumentary follows a German village as they plan to build a ramp to launch a BMW from Bavaria to America. I don't know why but the teeth kill me. Enjoy

I came across this Nike ad this morning during the coffee break at my meeting in Amsterdam. All in all, it's a fantastic ad, especially with the recent passing of his father and the great music they use.

This is a very on-point Op-Ed column in the Times today from David Brooks about the proliferation of debt in our society. Debt 'inhibits social mobility and ruins lives. Between 1989 and 2001, credit-card debt nearly tripled, soaring from $238 billion to $692 billion. By last year, it was up to $937 billion.'

What I would be thinking about if I were Billy Joel driving toward a holiday party where I knew there was going to be a piano [McSweeney's Internet Tendency]

5 things I didn't know when I woke up this morning

1. They're making a Wham! movie. [The Guardian]
2. 33% of the world's smokers live in China and 3 million people start smoking each year. 90% of China's smokers are men and the average man smokes 20 cigarettes each day. [National Geographic]
3. Zurich is the top city for expats. [Financial Times]
4. Traffic in La Paz, Bolivia is so dangerous that its mayor started a program to have youths dressed as zebras help people across the city's busiest intersections. [Monocle]
5. Brain surgeons don't hold their cell phones up to their ears. [NY Times]

'We shall never cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.'

T.S. Eliot

I'm not quite sure what to say, except that Bobby McFerrin is quite, exceptional? Although, I'm fairly certain he put his head in that woman's pumit* at the end of the second clip.

*note the first example they give after the definition. Two awesome words: pumit and trousers

Very creative commercial for the Renault Sandero, featuring a cover of 'Elephant Gun' by Beirut.

[via Danimal Owens]

Amazing video of magnetic fields that fill the air in a NASA laboratory

How clever!! A Lonely Planet guide...to MY apartment! Who would have ever thought of such a crazy idea? Oh Jonathan Stern, you're oh so f-ing hilarious!!!!!!

Saw this clip the other day and couldn't help but think that this guy does one hell of an impression of Daniel Day Lewis.

"...when it comes to the clambake, they won't be there."

Great term I heard today for the first time....'laughing at the toilet.'

As in, 'Stano had so many shots of slivovice tonight, he was laughing at the toilet when he came home.'

Michael J. Fox

Best Michael J Fox roles:

5. Michael 'Mikey' Chapman - Life with Mikey
4. Chance - Homeward Bound
3. Marty McFly - Back to the Future I, II & III
2. Alex P Keaton - Family Ties
1. Scott Howard - Teen Wolf

And with that I give to you....




*In all honesty, I never saw Spin City. If I included it, that would make me a liar, and I'm no liar.