Like most playgrounds, it is filled with smiling faces and laughter. But these faces have seen more of life than you might expect, and the laughter is a little more mature in tone.

Britain’s first playground for the over-60s opens today in Manchester.

Finally, something to keep them from joining gangs and running the streets at all hours of the night. Seriously though, what a great idea.

Check out the link here.

So….Do you love it?

Apple just announced the .16-inch thin MacBook Air — a laptop so thin it fits in a manila envelope. The new machine features a full-size keyboard and LED-backlit 13.3-inch display with built-in iSight, and the new larger trackpad supports multi-touch gestures. Just like the iPhone, you’ll be able to pan around, pinch to zoom, and rotate with two fingers, and move windows with a flick. Apple got the size down by using the same 1.8-inch 80GB drive that’s in the iPod classic, but you’ll be able to order a 64GB SSD as an option. The Air eschews optical media, but there’s a separate external you can snag for $99 and Apple’s also announced a feature called Remote Disk that’ll let the Air get data off the optical drive in any PC or Mac running the Remote Disk software.  On the Apple website the price is listed as $1899.

I have seen these tags a million times.

To my horror, I have never actually read one.

There is a good chance my pillow is full of old rags and fur. (Ewwwww!!!!)
Check out the link of this unlucky consumer here.

Every year Lake Superior State University releses a list of overused words from the year before.  Here is the list of words and I’m sure you will agree with most of them. The list reminds me of back in the day when I authored a decimating yet random webinar. It was post 9/11, but before Black Friday.  It was my way of giving back. What can I say? It is what it is.

Perfect Storm

Webinar

Waterboarding

Organic

Word Smith/ Word Smithing

Author/Authored

Post 9/11

Surge

Give Back

“Blank is the new Blank” or “X is the new Y”

Black Friday

Back in the day

Random

Sweet

Decimate

Emotional

Pop

It is what it is

Under the bus

Check out Lake Superior State University’s website for an Official List and the full reasonings

This is an advert for Channel [V], an international music television network. I wonder if Slash can play sitar as good as this guy…

Definition.

This classic Canadian game show was cutting edge in its day. Basically, you could give a letter (to your opponant) and take letters (for yourself) to solve the terrible puns, that if I remember correctly, viewers could mail in. My parents were actually on the show in 1986. And yes, they won fabulous prizes…like a popcorn maker, a breifcase and a toaster (among other things).