Nature's sore eye

Vreau sa ma dispensez in mod ecologic de plasticul, hartia folosita si tuburile consumate de deodorant care imi populeaza viatza. Cum procedez? Are cineva informatii despre centre sau sisteme de reciclare in Bucuresti sau Iasi?

If you do, please share.

A quiz

In your opinion this image should be used as:

1. A visual metaphor describing Romania and its people;
2. A visual metaphor describing the victorious outcome of the chinese cheap products invasion over the traditional Romanian brands;
3. The "ARO" entry in the Hilariously Illustrated Brand Trust Index;
4. Other... (please contribute).

The return of a classic

... ne-am reintalnit in Gara de Nord, dupa vreo cincisprezece ani, absolut intamplator. Ne-am atins si fara sa vrem, ne-am amintit impreuna despre acele vremuri in care marketingul inca mai avea ceva de-a face cu piatza, fie ea si de zarzavat.

Este ea, sora sacosei de plasa pentru cartofi, vara cu suportul de plastic pentru sticle de lapte, casatorita cu diplomatul in care Nea Marin isi ascundea prazul, matusa coshului zilnic al lui Vacaroiu, bunica gentilor Louis Vuitton de astazi.

Ea, punga de un leu, calul de povara al consumerismului socialist.

Mourning becomes Electra

God is a DJ

Atonale sunt trackurile lui...

I've been... (II)

... spotted at B'Estival.

"I've seen lots of wonderful people in the audience tonight, especially the red-headed girl in the front round, together with her boyfriend or husband..." (Paul Godfrey, Morcheeba).

Needless to say: I was just accessorising Adonai.

I've been ... (I)

Gand cu anotimpuri

Stiti ce face iarna, cand se induioseaza?
Lapovitza! :)

The truth about Irak

...
Totoro: nu... da mai am oleak si o trag de par pe vaca asta
Corin: Totoro
Corin: zen
Totoro: mda
Corin: gandeste-te la pasarele
Corin: pe o creanga
Corin: in lumina blanda a diminetzii
Totoro: nu pot
Totoro: kkt
Totoro: ma imaginez mai degraba intr-un FPS
Totoro: in firma
Totoro: me with my gun and everybody else
Corin: atunci gandeste-te la un hipopotam mort, cu o bucata de conducta roz in fund
Totoro: :))
Totoro: now this is funny
Totoro: you know funny
Totoro: this is funny
Corin: eu sunt sigur
Corin: absolut sigur
Corin: ca a murit facand niste lucruri
Corin: si ca de fapt in Irak
Corin: nu Al Qaeda saboteaza oleoducturile
Totoro: :)
Totoro: ci hipopotamii
Corin: ci grupuri de hipopotami
Totoro: hehehe
Corin: care vin noaptea acolo, in cautarea tevilor. .. :)

I beg you to reconsider

Cameron Diaz apologized Sunday for carrying a bag with a political slogan that evoked painful memories in Peru.

The voice of Princess Fiona in the animated "Shrek" films visited the Incan city of Machu Picchu in Peru's Andes on Friday carrying an olive green bag emblazoned with a red star and the words "Serve the People" printed in Chinese, perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong's most famous political slogan.

The bags are marketed as fashion accessories in some world capitals, but in Peru the slogan evokes memories of the Maoist Shining Path insurgency that fought the government in the 1980s and early 1990s in a bloody conflict that left nearly 70,000 people dead.

"I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended. The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China and I did not realize the potentially hurtful nature of the slogan printed on it," Diaz said in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press.

Hurting

Happy, happy, joy, joy!

Over your shoulder

Despre tari

Romania / Qschi

Qschi: stai ca-mi aleg o sonerie pt telefon
Qschi: ca suna in birou 3 telefoane la fel
Qschi: ma gandesc sa-mi pun Aura Urziceanu
Qschi: dor de viata
Qschi: da' ma tem ca o sa se tavaleasca lumea de ras
Qschi: are un intro super ciudat
Corin: :)
Corin: de ce sa se tavaleasca, habar nu au romana
Qschi: nu de asta
Qschi: da' intro-ul suna a muzica bananiera
Qschi: ca e lung
Corin: pai Romania e exact o tzara bananiera, dar fara banane.
...

Brazilia / Panamea

Corin: bai, arata ca in pescuitul miraculos.
Corin: io cred ca tre sa curga lapte si miere in tzara aia.
Panamea: da, si caprioarele vin la tine, iti smulg pusca, isi trag singure un glontz in cap....
Panamea: Dupa care isi baga un batz in fund si se duc sa se invarta incet deasupra focului, din proprie initiativa...

Small cars as a pure reason

Stiti de ce 99,99999(9)% dintre barbati nu ajung nume importante in filosofie? Pentru ca trebuie sa fii Kant, ca sa poti sa dai la sase ani raspunsul gresit la intrebarea:

Ei baiete, ce iti doresti tu mai mult si mai mult, cunoasterea universala sau o masinutza rosie?

How Brands Collide II

Where is the love?

Va mai amintiti de surprizele de la guma de mestecat Tipi-Tip? Invariabil, se incheiau cu oftatul personajului principal, care dupa ce facea un lucru incredibil de stupid pentru a-si demonstra dragostea, isi spunea resemnat: "Things we do for looove..."

This movie is about the evil twin of Tipi-Tip, who gets into advertising...

Gaza turns into a comic strip

Associated Press, June 14, 2007:

"...In the southern town of Khan Younis, Hamas militants surrounded a security headquarters and warned everyone inside to leave or they would blow it up, witnesses said. The building was then destroyed by a bomb planted in a tunnel underneath it, said Ali Qaisi, a presidential guard spokesman.

An Associated Press reporter saw defeated Fatah fighters streaming out of the building after turning over their weapons to Hamas militants. Hamas took weapons, clothes and vehicles and flew a green Islamic flag over the building, then celebrated by firing in the air and passing out candy...."

They were passing out candy :)

If HSBC would ever dare open a branch in the Gaza Strip (who knows, maybe they will get into islamic banking after all), this would be a great subject for their "HSBC - The world's local bank" ad campaign (also check out British in China, Commuter in New York, Biker in Brasil, The italian girl). It must be one of those cultural differences that get westerners killed in the Middle East...

I can imagine what is going to happen when Hamas finally defeats Fatah: they will sit around eating cake and drinking smoothies...

We meet again

To quote my friend T.:
"there are little airplanes, flying around us..."

The frenchies did it again

"... Although the more or less official term for vehicles of this type is UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), a French word [from Greek roots] for a plane without a pilot has been coined - "gnopter". The word comes from the Greek words: "gnosis" meaning knowledge, "gnome" meaning intelligence and "pteron" meaning wing.

This word sums up the machine's mission. The gnopter is a device that can increase information on, or knowledge of a given location. The machines can also be adjusted in real-time, to fulfill a given mission."

I can imagine the jokes. A british Lynx helicopter friendly advice to an american F-15 fighter, about the gnopter: stay away from that frenchie girl, she has gonorrhea!".

So much about NATO interoperability... :)