Astrid Phillips Mayer

View part VI here .

I was reading an article which used the term "shaggy dog story," despite the fact that the rest of the article had nothing to do w...

Ah, satire, I love you so.

I'd always just assumed that Snooki is simply famous for being famous. Or notorious for being notorious, take your pick. Either way, I...

LOVE this choreography! I could watch these guys all day, they're so magnificently precise. Bonus: excellent choice of locations. I...

Watch this if you want nightmares about monstrous mushrooms out to devour you (and worse!): But if you'd prefer nightmares about wa...

I can't stop listening to these people! They are too hep for words.

    When I'm not doing micromarketing or calculating inventory, I prance about like a Bollywood star in MBA talent shows. This seems to...

Kinda Bizarre Audience-Building Strategy: Come to My Apartment Would I want 60 strangers in my apartment every week? Probably not -- but it...

This just absolutely slays me. I may perish from cute overload. Sesame Street: Anderson Cooper Reports

So, here's the latest email I've received from the madcap folks behind Mindshare : We're excited to announce the program for nex...

I had a coworker last year who persistently tried to recruit me as his tandem surfing partner. This is what tandem surfing looks like: The ...

TED Talks / Elizabeth Gilbert: A different way to think about creative genius Are we geniuses? Or does genius speak through us? Is belief ...

It was in a warehouse, downtown, after dark. I got there early and helped set up chairs. Hundreds of chairs -- dusty but light. Open bar. T...

Thanks to Parlophone , and to Jamie for pointing me in the right direction. Bonus: I now understand the term " jackanory ."

Harvard Business Review: Breakthrough Ideas for 2009 (thanks to Hugh McGrory for sending this to me) - A lot of good stuff here. I'm ...

This photo is by the fantastic Alexander Shinkarenko . Man, if I could get this poster-sized, I so would. This is AWESOME. I mean, the ga...

Simply because:

I'm about to crawl into bed, happy and full of fine bacon vodka spaghetti -- but before I do, I have to post this. I first heard this so...

This video is so beautiful it almost takes my breath away. I love the kaleidoscopic quality of the editing, the angular self-possession of ...