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.
Craigslist.org: Lost: One Baseball Season (St. Louis, MO)
Ah, the despair in St. Louis. Great time to be a Reds fan!
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.
I’ve lived in Cincinnati most of my life and I finally made it to The Cone in West Chester. I’ve driven by the distinctive ice cream cone shaped building many times, but when I’m actually in the mood for ice cream, The Cone always seemed too out of the way. But, tonight after dinner in the Union Centre area we decided to make a trip over. 
It was a busy night at The Cone with a large gathering of people enjoying ice cream at the outdoor tables. After looking at the extensive menu of sundaes and dipped cones, I opted for something simple, a large cone with a vanilla/strawberry swirl.
This is the best tasting soft serve ice cream that I’ve had in Cincinnati. The strawberry was much more natural tasting than what you would expect for soft serve. It even had little specks of strawberry in it! My expectations for soft serve are pretty low because in my experience, it’s served out of convenience rather than taste.
This is the best tasting soft serve ice cream that I’ve had in Cincinnati. The strawberry was much more natural tasting than what you would expect for soft serve. It even had little specks of strawberry in it! My expectations for soft serve are pretty low because in my experience, it’s served out of convenience rather than taste.
But, even though the ice cream was great, the large cone is still a little more ice cream than what I needed. I got taken in by the .50 cent up sell from the small.
The dipped cones came in all sorts of interesting colors. We saw a girl eating a dipped cone with electric blue “magic” shell. It’s a favorite of the kids, but a nightmare for clothing and car seats.
If you’re in West Chester, definitely stop by the The Cone. I know that I’ll by stopping by again in the future.
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.