Should be easy for designers. Sep 30, 09, 2:10 p.m.

should be easy for designers.
http://www.ironicsans.com/helvar…
might seem ridiculously easy but many people still can't tell the difference.

QBN+ Challenge 28 Apr 9, 12, 2:30 p.m.

Alright! here it is.

http://nikerunning.nike.com/nike…

what cha think? New QBN (NT) Nov 19, 07, 11:36 a.m.

just wanna know what everyone think of the new qbn or newstoday...whatever you call it. i'm just too used to call it NT.
I'm feeling a bit down because the new layout dosen't fit my my 13" macbook screen anymore :(
Maybe because of that I feel everything is all over the place. And the white bg is killing my eyes....maybe cuz my screen is too bright.

ok vegas Jan 5, 10, 9:41 a.m.

going there in couple hours.
Anything that's a must check out?
or anything that i should be aware of and stay away from?

morning! Toronto! Aug 28, 08, 7:01 a.m.

WOOOT!! just arrived toronto yesterday and gonna stay for a week
any place i Have to check out? or do?
i'm not a big fan of CN tower, Niagara and mother nature. more like a lay back drunker and impulsive buyer...
probably gonna head to "Design Exchange" today. any other similar places?

Fuck! Dec 5, 08, 1:03 a.m.

Fuck! house got broke into. Macbook is gone. Mother Fucker! i just bought new rams! altho the optical drive is broken and there is password on it but Cmon!!! steal my pc not my mac!!

FFFFound...ya... again... Feb 21, 11, 9:29 a.m.

just received an email from this guy selling found invites...

"Saw you on QBN looking for a ffffound invite.

I have a ffffound invitation and I can make an account for you, but I can't give it away for free because of how rare they are (I had to pay for mine too). Here is my proof that I have an account http://ffffound.com/home/ffffoun…

If you are willing to pay the $30 I'm offering an invite for (pretty reasonable in light of how coveted these invites are) then follow these directions.

1. Choose a username you would like and let me know what it is.
2. I will create the account for you (BEFORE you pay me) and then send you the URL for the FFFFOUND domain with your own custom username to prove that it's real. If you want even further proof that this is legit then you can send me an image of your choice and I will upload it to your account and send you you the URL to it.
3. You send $30 to through PayPal (I'm a verified member, by the way)
4. When I see that you've completed the transaction I will send you an email with all of the account information for you to log in and you can change your email/password, etc.

And yes I have a ffffound invitation but I'm only making an account for you (Your account will not have an invitation to give away)

Let me know if you're still interested"

Need advise Jan 12, 09, 9:40 a.m.

ya, some of you might know my laptop got stolen last month. so it's time to get a new computer, and need some extra cash to buy a MacBook Pro.

I'm selling my bass guitar on craig's list.
and there is this guy who is interested but he live in Granada and he is unavailable to meet me up and pay me by cash. He has suggested to pay me by paypal along with the shipping money.

This is my first time selling stuffs on craig's list. any thing i should worry about using paypal transaction?
anyone sold anything on crag's list before?
has been through the same situation?

New Kids on the Block! yo! Jun 13, 08, 10:52 a.m.

Holy Shit!! they are back!! i mean who's their fan now? some moms? or elementary kids? how old are they!? I say take out your sniper rifle, its time for some target practice!

The prduct all QBNer has been waiting for. Feb 22, 11, 1:52 p.m.

The japanese has done it again!
i bet this will sell like hot cake on QBN.
O_O...

self promotional ideas May 24, 09, 8:41 p.m.

I'm trying make a interesting self promotional mail piece to send to agencies and firms. but kept running out of ideas... need a pointer.
anyone has seen any interesting self promotional mail piece?

Chinese companies 'rent' white foreigners Jun 29, 10, 9:40 p.m.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/BUSI…

I don't even know where to begin... O_O

Beijing, China (CNN) -- In China, white people can be rented.

For a day, a weekend, a week, up to even a month or two, Chinese companies are willing to pay high prices for fair-faced foreigners to join them as fake employees or business partners.

Some call it "White Guy Window Dressing." To others, it's known as the "White Guy in a Tie" events, "The Token White Guy Gig," or, simply, a "Face Job."

And it is, essentially, all about the age-old Chinese concept of face. To have a few foreigners hanging around means a company has prestige, money and the increasingly crucial connections -- real or not -- to businesses abroad.

"Face, we say in China, is more important than life itself," said Zhang Haihua, author of "Think Like Chinese." "Because Western countries are so developed, people think they are more well off, so people think that if a company can hire foreigners, it must have a lot of money and have very important connections overseas. So when they really want to impress someone, they may roll out a foreigner."

Or rent one.

Last year, Jonathan Zatkin, an American actor who lives in Beijing, posed as the vice president of an Italian jewelry company that had, allegedly, been in a partnership with a Chinese jewelry chain for a decade.

When is being foreign a career advantage?

Zatkin was paid 2,000 yuan (about $300) to fly, along with a couple of Russian models, to a small city in the central province of Henan where he delivered a speech for the grand opening ceremony of a jewelry store there.
They have not told me what my name is today. I think it is Lawrence or something
--Beijing actor pretending to be a New York architect
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"I was up on stage with the mayor of the town, and I made a speech about how wonderful it was to work with the company for 10 years and how we were so proud of all of the work they had done for us in China," Zatkin said. "They put up a big bandstand and the whole town was there and some other local muckety-mucks."

The requirements for these jobs are simple. 1. Be white. 2. Do not speak any Chinese, or really speak at all, unless asked. 3. Pretend like you just got off of an airplane yesterday.

Those who go for such gigs tend to be unemployed actors or models, part-time English teachers or other expats looking to earn a few extra bucks. Often they are jobs at a second- or third-tier city, where the presence of pale-faced foreigners is needed to impress local officials, secure a contract or simply to fulfill a claim of being international.

"Occasionally companies want a foreign face to go to meetings and conferences or to go to dinners and lunches and smile at the clients and shake people's hands," read an ad posted by a company called Rent A Laowai (Chinese for "foreigner") on the online classified site thebeijinger.com.

It continued: "There are job opportunities for girls who are pretty and for men who can look good in a suit."

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People like Brad Smith. When Smith -- the nom de plume of the Beijing-based American actor -- answered CNN's phone call on a recent morning, he was standing outside a meeting room at a Ramada Inn in Hangzhou, a city about 100 miles outside of Shanghai. Today's job: Pretend to be an architect from New York and give design plans for a new museum to local officials.

"They have not told me what my name is today. I think it is Lawrence or something," said Smith -- unlike some jobs, no fake business cards were given to hand out.

Earlier that morning he went over his script with his Chinese "business partners" at a Kentucky Fried Chicken. "It says, 'Good morning distinguished leaders. It is my privilege to participate in this program'," said Smith, who asked that his real name not be used for fear it could jeopardize future jobs.

If Smith is asked a question, he is told to pretend to answer as his "translator" pretends to understand.

Occasionally, these jobs can go awry. Smith said 18 months ago Beijing police showed up at his apartment after a financial company he worked at for a couple of months in Xi'an, a city in western China, allegedly swindled millions of yuan out of clients.

"That company said I was the guy in charge," he said. "I didn't even remember the company's name. After that, I decided I was never going to use my passport again with these fake companies. The small gigs are much less dangerous." Sometimes companies will hire Caucasians simply to sit in the office a few hours a day near the window where clients and customers can see them.

White women are also a hot commodity, sometimes to pose as phony foreign girlfriends, or, in the case of Vicky Mohieddeen, to pretend to be an oil tycoon.

Mohieddeen, who is Scottish, took a job in 2008 to attend what she describes as some sort of "oil drilling conference" in Shandong province for 300 yuan ($44). Several busloads of foreigners, with nationalities ranging from Pakistani to Nigerian, were trucked to the event, she said. They were greeted by brass bands and feted with a sumptuous dinner.

"I was like, 'Yeah, we have a lot of oil in Scotland.' I didn't know what to say. It was a bit nerve-racking. We were guests of honor of the vice mayor. We were put in a nice hotel. It was quite fancy."

For Mohieddeen, who had just arrived in Beijing at the time, the experience, albeit bizarre, was an introduction to a side of China most foreigners will never see.

"It is part of what China is all about, you know," Mohieddeen said. "There is quite an elaborate fantasy world going on here where if everyone buys into it, it does not matter if it is the truth. Those kinds of experiences give me a fuller understanding of the way the culture works."

Panton Analyze app May 6, 09, 3:16 p.m.

is there any software that analyzes colours on an image and tells you the name of the panton that has the closest match?

waiting at airport Sep 18, 07, 1:58 a.m.

humm.....ya really damn board right now.
i'm at airport with my laptop waiting for the flight to hongkong. anything i can do to kill time?!? like trying to lick my nose? or any place cool in hongkong i should check out?

cmon people! entertain me! :P

Coca-Cola Hugging Machine Apr 20, 12, 11:15 p.m.

oh... i'd be humping that machine allll day.

http://youtu.be/-A-7H4aOhq0

(Singapore)
"A new Coca-Cola vending machine at the National University of Singapore dispenses free cans in exchange for hugs.

Instead of the usual logo, the words ‘Hug Me’ is written across the machine’s front in the iconic red and white.

The ‘Hug Machine’ is programmed to dispense a can of Coke when a person wraps their arms around it—and no, it simply doesn’t accept money!

It is part of a new campaign by Ogilvy & Mather to spread some love and well, Coke.

"Whether you were hugging the machine or experiencing the event online, our goal was the same—to put a smile on your face and share that emotional connection," Coca-Cola Company spokesman Leonardo O’Grady said in a press release.

"Reactions were amazing... people really had fun with it and at one point we had four to five people hugging the machine at the same time as well as each other!"

The company plans to install more of such machines across Asia in the coming months."

Drunk Online Purchase Dec 21, 08, 1:32 a.m.

......
does this happen to you guys?

i just bought $99 dollars laptop bag from apple.com 4 in the morning, even though i don't own a laptop anymore... and then later found out this item is none refundable....
great....i'm an idiot...

This is why you don't show off. Oct 16, 09, 4:38 a.m.

MacBook Gone Wild Dec 7, 07, 12:15 a.m.

k whenever i play a youtube video or a flash clip or video, my macbook's fan would go crazy. it sounded so loud i thought the fan is going to shoot right out or something. does that happened to every MacBook? any solution?

Street of Plenty Mar 19, 10, 4:51 a.m.

http://scoutmagazine.ca/2010/02/…

A documentary by students from University of Columbia about the sketchiest ghetto in one of the most livable city in the world. Vancouver.

"An unprecedented look into the underworld of Vancouver’s downtown east-side ghetto, this 65 minute documentary follows one man’s 30 day experiment of joining the thousands of homeless, ill, and addicted, who survive the streets of Vancouver’s cold, wet December. He starts off with nothing but a pair of underwear. Where he ends up is a place he never knew existed, even though its a place he passed by every day. This is the perfect film for anyone who wants to see first hand what life is like on Vancouver’s streets, but doesn’t want to risk murder from gang violence, contracting a fatal or chronic disease, or a life-long addiction to crack or heroin."

bad veterinarian Sep 9, 09, 1:28 a.m.

i felt bad for the squirrel... :(

http://thestar.com.my/news/story…

A KINDERGARTEN teacher who took her feverish pet squirrel to the veterinary clinic had her breasts allegedly groped by the veterinarian instead, reported Harian Metro.

According to the daily, the veterinarian had asked the 27-year old woman to place the squirrel inside her blouse to keep it warm given its “erratic body temperature”.

However, the squirrel got stuck on her bra strap when the 52-year-old veterinarian asked her to take the animal out.

The veterinarian, the report said, saw the woman’s breasts while helping her remove the squirrel and started praising her figure.

He then allegedly told the victim to take care of her body and “beautiful breasts”.

Ampang OCPD Asst Comm Abd Jalil Hasan said the veterinarian then began to demonstrate to her how to massage her breasts.

“He then took advantage by groping and sucking the victim’s breasts. The victim struggled to release herself before the doctor finally let her go,” he told the daily.

“He told her she need not pay for the squirrel’s treatment and asked her to come again. But she decided to lodge a police report,” ACP Abd Jalil Hasan told the daily, adding that the veterinarian was arrested on Monday.

The squirrel died shortly after returning home.