ideasareawesome:

IKEA’s unconventional, yet brilliant use of one of the most common features on Facebook.

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ideasareawesome: To complete this Uruguay Axe ad send a text message after 9pm for New Axe Day & Night. One is suitable for general audiences. The other one is not. (via Directdaily) This is awesome.

ideasareawesome:

To complete this Uruguay Axe ad send a text message after 9pm for New Axe Day & Night. One is suitable for general audiences. The other one is not.

(via Directdaily)

This is awesome.

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mikebrownjr: tedr: Hot Moms Club Are you a hot mom that want’s to share and learn from other hot moms? There’s a site for that: hotmomsclub.com. (The above is not code for anything as far as I can tell!) wow.

mikebrownjr:

tedr:

Hot Moms Club

Are you a hot mom that want’s to share and learn from other hot moms? There’s a site for that: hotmomsclub.com.

(The above is not code for anything as far as I can tell!)

wow.

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interstate: spendingtimewithyou: IMPOSTER!

interstate:

spendingtimewithyou:

IMPOSTER!

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live your life

Sometimes when I don’t know what to do I imagine other people doing stuff. But like people in a different time. Or like people in a different place. And I think how cool would it be to be that person for awhile. Like to know how other people I don’t know talk or do stuff. How they really live, you know? But that’s when I’m not doing stuff of my own. Which is all the time anyway.

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ideasareawesome: real vs. impostor.an attempt at creating a background that looks like a standard iphone wallpaper.

ideasareawesome:

real vs. impostor.
an attempt at creating a background that looks like a standard iphone wallpaper.

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Growing Prosperity

justgoodbusiness:

Net Impact Speaker: Supriya Banavalikar, Director of Communications and Fundraising for The Hunger Project

“If you want prosperity for one year, grow grain.  If you want prspoerity for ten years, grow trees.  If you want prosperity for 100 years, grow people.”

This is the proverb with which Supriya began her presentation.  Her organization impacts 35 million people across 13 countries using a $12 M budget.  With all of the ways this money could be spent or this issue could be addressed, The Hunger Project has decided to invest in empowering women.  These Women’s Leadership Workshops are a 3-day opportunity for the women to gather and learn the multitude of ways that they can have a positive impact on their community.  After the workshop, a “Vision, Commitment, and Action Workshop” is held so that the women can determine the greatest needs for their specific community and choose which projects they would like to tackle. 

An interesting visual that Supriya shared with us was a story about an exercise they do with all the women participants.  They are asked to draw how they see their village.  Everything is drawn in its entirety, including homes, land, children, and men.  However, the women place dots on their papers to represent themselves, admitting a feeling of insignificance in the community.

Some shocking statistics for me really drove home the need for such immediate and dramatic social change, especially in India:

  • 70% of Indian women are anemic
  • 50% of Indian babies are born malnourished
  • In 2008, there were 252 million malnourished people in India


This information takes my breath away, but there is one consolation: there are 35,000 NGOs in India (versus 11,000 in the US), and these organizations are fighting daily to put a dent in the societal inequalities that foster these hunger issues.

Go to http://www.thp.org/ for more information on the situation and the current initiatives.

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Think of a cellphone network as one giant airplane that costs tens of billions of dollars to build. The cellphone companies don’t really know how much it costs to handle a call to Aunt Suzy in Syracuse, any more than an airline can calculate a specific cost for Seat 12B.

One of the several great lines in a pretty interesting NYT piece about the madness of the American cell phone market.

Looking for a Method in Cellphone Price Madness - NYTimes.com

A couple other highlights:

  • “On average, [Americans] effectively spend about 5 cents per minute of talk time and about a penny a text message, lower than anywhere else in the developed world.”
  • “[C]arriers put great stock in a measure called average revenue per user, or ARPU (pronounced “ARE-poo.”)”  As though we didn’t already know that cell phone companies treat their customer like shit.
  • “In the first half of this year, the average wireless customer sent 518 texts a month and made 220 phone calls, according to CTIA figures. (That average, of course, is driven up by the furious texting of teenagers.)”  The use of the adjective “furious” to mean “done often, with fervor” is only ever used to describe things teenagers do with their hands that embarrasses adults.
  • “Sprint, at No. 3, has been losing customers for several years.”  I still love my Sprint Employee Referral Offer plan: about $36, including taxes and fees, for 450 minutes, unlimited texting, and unlimited data.

(via caffeinated)

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financegeek: continuum: In a time of renewed scrutiny for the banking sector, many are fighting against the tide. For consumers, managing their finances has never been so difficult - which could be why the use of prepaid debit cards is on the rise.

financegeek:

continuum:

In a time of renewed scrutiny for the banking sector, many are fighting against the tide. For consumers, managing their finances has never been so difficult - which could be why the use of prepaid debit cards is on the rise.

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ideasareawesome:

What is Google Wave?

I think email needs to be replaced, though, with something that is actually compatible with email.  Wave is a different paradigm, but how can users of it consume email and let email users consume Wave.  … I hope that makes sense.

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