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Don’t get into a debate with this guy, he’s got a Masters in Communication.  Doesn’t the Tea Party need a Presidential candidate?

Thanks to Chris for sending me the link.

I love this viral Samsung ad.  My company SoftTiles sells mats just like the one featured in this video.  In many ways this is a much better ad for my product than a cell phone.

NYTimes.com: Uncle Lends Steady Hand in Nadal’s Unsettled Life

One night, Nadal, his uncle and his publicist, Benito Pérez-Barbadillo, decided to dine at their hotel’s rooftop restaurant. As Toni Nadal recalled, on the elevator ride up, Pérez-Barbadillo noticed that Nadal was wearing long shorts and told him that there was a dress code but that the restaurant would surely be willing to relax the rule. Toni Nadal said he turned to his nephew and said, “Rafael, you must go change.”

And Nadal did.

“When you think you are the king of the world,” Toni Nadal said, “you are really stupid in my opinion because in this life every person is important.”

Cincinnati.com: 9/8/10: From the locker room

A quote from Bengals coach Marvin Lewis regarding Chad Ochocinco and Terrell Owens Twitter feeds:

“I get copies of their stuff each day. I don’t follow him because it’s just a bunch of nonsense. I don’t really care where he goes to eat and so forth or who he buys dinner for. But I guess [for] a lot of people that gives them something to do during the day. I have no problem filling my day up.”

I’m not surprised that the Bengals monitor Twitter feeds, but I find the idea of Marvin Lewis getting a printout of their tweets kind of amusing.

Via Kottke.org: New celeb status item: your own servers at Twitter

The nice thing about Twitter is that you choose who you follow and no one I follow talks about Justin Bieber.

If a praying mantis were attacking BP headquarters, who would you root for?

This kid, before age 4 is way cooler than I’ll ever be!  I love watching the pure joy he gets out of playing the drums.

Boston.com: Hackers’ delight — A history of MIT pranks

A pictorial history of some of the MIT pranks.  Good stuff.

BuildingCincinnati.com: Old St. George hotel proposal needs $65K

I was reading about the proposal to turn the Old St. George Church in Clifton Heights into a boutique hotel.  It reminded me of a hotel, the Malmaison that I visited last year in Oxford, England.  It’s a hotel that was that was created not from a church but an old prison.  Instead of completely gutting it to the shell, they left in quite a few aspects of the prison.  The jail cells are the rooms, but larger, combining multiple jail cells to create rooms fit for paying customers.

The old stairs and walkways really give the hotel the prison feel, which is a fun contrast from the lush carpet and furniture.

It would be nice if the plans for St. George kept some of the elements of what makes it unique.

CNN.com: Chilean miners to create shrine inside mine

Also, according to medical records, there are at least nine miners who would be too overweight to fit through the proposed shaft to rescue them, Manalich said.

The miners are believed to have lost about 8 kg (17 pounds) so far during their time in the mine, and officials expect that the overweight miners will be able to be rescued by the time the shaft is completed.

“Believe me, they will lose weight,” Manalich said.

So far this story is turning out better than the other cave-ins, but this ordeal is just beginning.  I can’t imagine what it would be like to be trapped with 32 others for three months in a space the size of a studio apartment.