We can ignore it all we want, but our history eventually always comes back to haunt us.
Image via Wikipedia Even if you’ve never watched TV show “Mad Men”, chances are you’ve heard a colleague chatting about it at the water cooler. AMC’s sleeper hit set in the 1960s world of Madison Avenue advertising executives has taken the world by storm – and for good reason. “The New York Times” called the [...]
Getting into the video gaming business?
Image via Wikipedia Publishers are hungry for new ways to generate sales as they cut back on the number of book titles published annually. Economic pressure is likely to grow in coming years as the sale of electronic books, now an estimated 3% to 5% of total book sales, becomes increasingly significant. E-books are expected [...]
VitraHaus
Image via Wikipedia A showroom on the inside and a showpiece on the outside. Look closely…you haven’t seen anything like this. Perhaps this could happen to be one of the wonders of Alice’s Wonderland! A pretty complex and astounding structure, this is the VitraHaus building which looks like a collection of stacked houses magically balanced [...]
Shame in Spain Comes Mainly With the Pain.
Image by quaziefoto via Flickr Embarrassed when a man in a tuxedo and top hat follows you into a restaurant and silently joins your lunch date? Mission accomplished. Mortified when a trio of rotund men dressed as superheroes asks your neighbors for donations to help your financial situation? Juan Carlos Granda sees his job as [...]
Teachers, Keep On Teaching and preachers, keep on preaching!
Image by takuya miyamoto* via Flickr I was at the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco a couple weeks ago, and had a great time talking to tea people and foodies who are tea curious. I kept getting the same questions I’ve heard repeated over my 5+ years in the tea business – “How do [...]