What an easy scheme to bring traffic to your site, get up bunch of floozies with low self esteem to send pictures and allow the world to judge them. Disgusted or Loving it, it’s WORKING.

We’re looking for a brand new bum (the best in the world!) to be the new “face” for our always expanding intimates and briefs lines. The winners will be flown to LA, photographed and featured online. Send in a close-up photo of your backside wearing American Apparel panties, bodysuits or briefs for consideration and vote for your personal favorites.

American Apparel | Best Bottom Contest

“Adobe is not going to take Flash’s exclusion from the iPad lying down.”

Adobe Busts Out Porn in iPad Flash Crusade : Gizmodo

The digital juggernaut continues its mindless destruction of analog classics, with the latest brand to throw in the towel being venerable club favorite Technics. Manufacturing parent Panasonic has apparently issued a statement blaming “low sales globally in analogue turntables” for the demise of the Technics 1200 and 1210 decks, which it will cease producing in February 2010.

Read More : Slashgear.com

“…Use tactics like doing a Google search on the text of whatever error message you get (searching Google groups as well as Web pages). This might well take you straight to fix documentation or a mailing list thread answering your question. Even if it doesn’t, saying “I googled on the following phrase but didn’t get anything that looked promising” is a good thing to do in e-mail or news postings requesting help, if only because it records what searches won’t help. It will also help to direct other people with similar problems to your thread by linking the search terms to what will hopefully be your problem and resolution thread.

Take your time. Do not expect to be able to solve a complicated problem with a few seconds of Googling. Read and understand the FAQs, sit back, relax and give the problem some thought before approaching experts. Trust us, they will be able to tell from your questions how much reading and thinking you did, and will be more willing to help if you come prepared. Don’t instantly fire your whole arsenal of questions just because your first search turned up no answers (or too many).

Prepare your question. Think it through. Hasty-sounding questions get hasty answers, or none at all. The more you do to demonstrate that having put thought and effort into solving your problem before seeking help, the more likely you are to actually get help…”

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
by Eric Steven Raymond

When you’re just starting your business, there are a lot of benefits to being small. You’re nimble, fluid, you can adapt quickly to new situations. But for every advantage, there’s a challenge. It’s hard to stand out, hard to land important meetings, hard to get people to deliver things when you need them. It’s even hard to negotiate pricing with vendors because you can’t offer them any true sort of scale: If you own a small cafe, you’re probably not paying the same price for your vegetables as is TGIFriday’s (assuming, of course, that TGIFriday’s actually serves vegetables).

Diary of a Social Venture Start-up: The Importance of Being SMART

E-Waste that the tech saavy west dumps in Ghana. Shot by Andrew McConnell.

Obama Patiently Explaining Things to House Republicans

thanks paule.

Angelina Jolie by Brad.