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Share your drinking habits with a Guinness-activated QR cup

emergentfutures:

Paul Higgins: Clever - go to the original story to see the pictures

Winner of a John Caples International Marketing Award, advertising agency BBDO’s cup reveals a QR code when filled with the Irish stout — lighter colored beverages need not apply as the darker tint is required for readability. Once the liquid is up to the brim, the code can be scanned to download exclusive Guinness content and promotions and even send notifications about your pint to Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare


Full Story: The Verge

You’re born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you’re up in the rarefied atmosphere and you’ve forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake son.
For the sake of self-improvement, I think I’m going to go through iTunes “Intro to Computer Science” from Harvard. I’m going to actually do all the homework and such. 

I usually pick lessons here and there from various courses (how can I turn down a class lecture by Robert Schiller about insurance, or learn how to pitch a company), but I will actually try to follow through on this whole course. Even if I don’t complete (not because of difficulty but because of time) the course, I’m sure I’ll have improved myself beyond had I not tried in the first place.

So even though I have a full time job and trying to get a side business going, I’ll always be a student

For the sake of self-improvement, I think I’m going to go through iTunes “Intro to Computer Science” from Harvard. I’m going to actually do all the homework and such.

I usually pick lessons here and there from various courses (how can I turn down a class lecture by Robert Schiller about insurance, or learn how to pitch a company), but I will actually try to follow through on this whole course. Even if I don’t complete (not because of difficulty but because of time) the course, I’m sure I’ll have improved myself beyond had I not tried in the first place.

So even though I have a full time job and trying to get a side business going, I’ll always be a student

This video sums it up perfectly

thesociologist:

F. Scott Fitzgerald; Photographer Unknown.
(via arreter)

thesociologist:

F. Scott Fitzgerald; Photographer Unknown.

(via arreter)

If you don’t know the rules, you aren’t going to win