Rachel Ray = Terrorist?

Yesterday Dunkin’ Donuts pulled a commercial featuring Rachel Ray wearing a black and white scarf that they thought could be portraying her as a terrorist sympathizer.   Dunkin’ Donuts, really?  Really?  They were afraid that the ignorant American public would confuse her scarf with a keffiyeh, a symbol for murderous jihad.  See for yourself.  I think the ad makes it clear that Dunkin’ Donuts is declaring a jihad against rational Americans, not to mention a jihad against good tasting coffee (but I think that just might be a west coast bias…).

Say goodbye (again) to plastic bags

A recent law passed in San Francisco places a ban on plastic bags being given away by chain pharmacies (eg Walgreens & Rite Aid). This comes on the heels of the recently inacted ban on plastic bags in grocery stores. This story has begun to sweep the country & world with additional cities jumping on to help reduce waste. Such cities include Oakland, CA: Portland, Or; New Haven, Ct; London, England; and Paris, France.

Don’t follow me

Here’s the latest video from The Odd Couple.  Gnarls and Danger Mouse continue to put together some of the most progressive tunes from whatever-genre-you-might-consider-them.

I hope you’re as captivated by this video as I was.

Craigslist founder to give UC Berkeley commencement speech

Read more about it here.

More interestingly he said he’s going to “ad lib” his speech, saying:

“Never read a prepared speech unless you’re really good at it; for a genuine perspective on corporate life, read Dilbert; and brevity is the soul of wit.”

I think if you’re able to set up a web server that receives more than 9 billion page views per month (56th in the world) with 24 employees…you’re allowed to just throw together any old speech off the top of your head.

Update: If your world headquarters looks like this even though you serve > 450 cities in 50 countries you’re allowed to ad lib the speech.

Radiohead…whoa

I’ll let the video speak for itself – its from Radiohead’s first US show this tour Monday night.