This Is How You Sell Wide-Angle Lenses
It’s extremely rare to find a tasteful ad campaign that uses sex and clever humor to perfectly define the qualities of a technology product. This series of print ads for Omax wide-angle lenses is one of them:
The campaign was created by Publicis India, showing alternative uses...
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Linking Raw Cookie Dough to an E. coli Outbreak
Contaminated raw cookie dough wasn’t on anyone’s mind as my public health colleagues and I were searching for the cause of a multistate outbreak of E. coli infections.
I’m one of the Epidemic Intelligence Service officers in CDC’s Enteric Diseases Epidemiology Branch, which monitors and investigates foodborne...
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First Drive: VW Passat Ling Yu – The technology of tomorrow in the car of today
Filed under: Hydrogen, Volkswagen, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Green Daily, First Drive
Volkswagen Passat Ling Yu – Click above for high-res image gallery
In many ways the automotive world – like most industries – runs like 19th century Europe: wars, skirmishes, diplomacy, assignations,...
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Conflicting portrait of NC terror suspect emerges (AP)
AP – Daniel Boyd may have spent the past three years traveling to the Middle East, secretly buying guns and training for jihad with a group of aspiring terrorists as federal authorities claim, but people on his cul-de-sac said Tuesday he also made plenty of time...
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Like Torture? New Vegas Attraction Offers Real-Life ‘Saw’ ExperienceHave you ever wished that you could be chained to a basement floor, or forced to stick your arm in a box with a circular saw, or dunked in a vat of liquefying pig cadavers? Then have we got the Vegas vacation for you! Fright Dome,...
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fashion:: surfs up!
Surf’s up and who says wet suits can’t be fashionable as well as comfortable and functional . Diddo designed his wetsuits with style in mind, yet with a quirky twist. His new line of these form fitting suits are funky and JUST COOL as well!
Diddo’s four original designs consist of a rusted...
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I HATE VERIZON
When I got home yesterday, my internet wasn’t working, so I did all the things that usually re-start it, and it still didn’t work. So I took a stiff drink and called Verizon. After about 10 minutes of voicemail hell, I finally got ‘Joe’ who is probably really Sidhar in India....
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Meizu M8 in the Wild! PiggyNannan.com exclusive
-Nanjing, China 6.03.09
Walking around in Nanjing, China I stumbled upon the street Zhujiang Road (spelling may be off). This place happens to be the electronic hub of the entire city. In one particular store, and hard for foreign eyes to spot, was a warehouse sized mall enveloped...
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