Living in the City

To all my real life as well as Chinese blogger friends, Happy New Year to all of you. May the Year of the Ox bring everything but the best in all of us; prosperity, good health, meaningful lives, and love. Thanks to this and this sites for the images.

Are you willing to wear one of this? It is supposed to lift sagging butts :-) For US$30, you can get a 'biniki', for a betterlooking butt, even if you really don't have one :-) According to gen ius beau ty "butt bra has been developed in the States. American psychologist Karin Hart registered the patent for her invention called Biniki. Hart says her extraordinary bra is going to make a saggy butt look real good. Narrow straps of a new bra go around your waist and fasten under your buttocks, lifting them to create the image of athletic and neat figure". And that furthermore, "with unaffordable cosmetic surgery and wide scars left after buttocks lift, Hart challenged herself to create an underwear that could replace the effects of surgery. Searching for the best design idea, she stood in front of the mirror and tried a few options using self-adhesive tape until she found a successful one. Butt bra lifts and holds up the muscles where t...

 How much CO2 are you generating for your Google searches? I found this information on my google reader subscription. The Official Google Blog is basically stating that Google is doing its share in making every Google search as energy efficient as possible because: "In terms of greenhouse gases, one Google search is equivalent to about 0.2 grams of CO2. The current EU standard for tailpipe emissions calls for 140 grams of CO2 per kilometer driven, but most cars don't reach that level yet. Thus, the average car driven for one kilometer (0.6 miles for those in the U.S.) produces as many greenhouse gases as a thousand Google searches". And Google as an organization is: "working with other members of the IT community to improve efficiency on a broader scale. In 2007, we co-founded the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, a group which champions more efficient computing. This non-profit consortium is committed to cutting the energy consumed by computers in ha...

To Think Constantly is to Live Your Word is "Think" You see life as an amazing mix of possibilities, ideas, and fascinations. And sometimes you feel like you don't have enough time to take it all in. You love learning. Whether you're in school or not, you're probably immersed in several subjects right now. When you're not learning, you're busy reflecting. You think a lot about the people you know and the things you've experienced. What's Your Word?

Jon Favreau schooled by Jesuits Thanks to The Guardian the site where I found this information about President Obama's inagural speech writer. Also noted: Mr Jon Favreau was schooled by the Jesuits of The College of the Holy Cross . Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA and considered to be 'the oldest Roman Catholic college in New England and one of the oldest in the United States'. Meanwhile, I reprint snippets from The Guardian article here: Jon Favreau, 27, is, as Obama himself puts it, the president's mind reader. He is the youngest chief speechwriter on record in the White House, and, despite such youth, was at the centre of discussions of the content of today's speech, one which has so much riding on it. Obama has leant on Favreau, whom he discovered almost by chance four years ago when the younger man was working on John Kerry's failed presidential bid. "Favs" ...