Taste Savant: Find the place for your next date.  I’ve been looking for social review sites like this for a while. I know everyone except for me has been into Yelp for years. But I feel like Yelp is full of crazies. I tried to get into it, but I just can’t trust crazies for reviews. Plus, most restaurants have so many mixed reviews that I end up feeling just as undecided as when I went to Yelp to begin with. Which is why I’m excited about Taste Savant. You sign up, fill out your profile and get curated reviews from trusted sources. You can even filter based on neighborhood, cost or occasion. It’s only in NYC for now, but I’d imagine it will be coming to other cities soon. High-res

Taste Savant: Find the place for your next date. 

I’ve been looking for social review sites like this for a while. I know everyone except for me has been into Yelp for years. But I feel like Yelp is full of crazies. I tried to get into it, but I just can’t trust crazies for reviews. Plus, most restaurants have so many mixed reviews that I end up feeling just as undecided as when I went to Yelp to begin with. Which is why I’m excited about Taste Savant. You sign up, fill out your profile and get curated reviews from trusted sources. You can even filter based on neighborhood, cost or occasion. It’s only in NYC for now, but I’d imagine it will be coming to other cities soon.

The curiosity landing already has a meme: NASA’s ‘mohawk guy.’ The dude with the awesome hair was Bobak Ferdowsi, in case you hadn’t heard already. Apparently for big missions, he gets a new hairdo - this one voted on by the rest of his team. “The hairdo, its empiric awesomeness aside, was also a visual symbol of the humanity at the core of NASA’s achievements… Ferdowsi’s mohawk served as a reminder of the individual people — the quirky people — who make all that progress possible,” writes Megan Garber for The Atlantic. High-res

The curiosity landing already has a meme: NASA’s ‘mohawk guy.’

The dude with the awesome hair was Bobak Ferdowsi, in case you hadn’t heard already. Apparently for big missions, he gets a new hairdo - this one voted on by the rest of his team. “The hairdo, its empiric awesomeness aside, was also a visual symbol of the humanity at the core of NASA’s achievements… Ferdowsi’s mohawk served as a reminder of the individual people — the quirky people — who make all that progress possible,” writes Megan Garber for The Atlantic.

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You are (probably) wrong about you. Think you know yourself better than anyone else? Heidi Grant Halvorson throws that theory out of the window in her latest post for Harvard Business Review. And I have to admit, I tend to agree. So many of our decisions are made on a subconscious level that it’s often hard for us to decipher why something went well or why it didn’t - and why other people are often better at describing us than we are. After writing Nine Things Successful People Do Differently (originally a blog post), she’s now following up with a diagnostic which tells you which of the Nine Things you may need to work on. As she says herself, it’s not about taking her online diagnostic, but instead understanding that we all need feedback. High-res

You are (probably) wrong about you.

Think you know yourself better than anyone else? Heidi Grant Halvorson throws that theory out of the window in her latest post for Harvard Business Review. And I have to admit, I tend to agree. So many of our decisions are made on a subconscious level that it’s often hard for us to decipher why something went well or why it didn’t - and why other people are often better at describing us than we are. After writing Nine Things Successful People Do Differently (originally a blog post), she’s now following up with a diagnostic which tells you which of the Nine Things you may need to work on. As she says herself, it’s not about taking her online diagnostic, but instead understanding that we all need feedback.

Regrets as street art.  Started earlier this year, the artist behind the Regret Project takes peoples regrets and turns them into pieces of art around NYC. It feels like a bit like Frank Warren’s project, Post Secret, in that the regrets are often intimate and anonymous. So why regrets? Says the artist, “My hope is that getting our regrets out into the open (albeit anonymously) will be a cathartic experience and might strike a few individuals that come across them. Perhaps they will even act in a way that better represents the people they wish to be.”  High-res

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Regrets as street art. 

Started earlier this year, the artist behind the Regret Project takes peoples regrets and turns them into pieces of art around NYC. It feels like a bit like Frank Warren’s project, Post Secret, in that the regrets are often intimate and anonymous. So why regrets? Says the artist, “My hope is that getting our regrets out into the open (albeit anonymously) will be a cathartic experience and might strike a few individuals that come across them. Perhaps they will even act in a way that better represents the people they wish to be.” 

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The Chick-Fil-A Confessional: A way to atone for your sandwich sins. I know, I know - Two weeks in a row I’ve managed to get Chick-Fil-A into The Tuesday Ten. [If we had Nando’s in the US, I wouldn’t care nearly as much.] So if you, too, were feeling bad about your Chick-Fil-A habits last week, this one’s for you. After selecting what you ate at Chick Fil A, you can “right your lightly breaded wrong” by agreeing to a penance, like donating to a LGBT organization. Thanks to Ramzi for sharing this gem with me. High-res

The Chick-Fil-A Confessional: A way to atone for your sandwich sins.

I know, I know - Two weeks in a row I’ve managed to get Chick-Fil-A into The Tuesday Ten. [If we had Nando’s in the US, I wouldn’t care nearly as much.] So if you, too, were feeling bad about your Chick-Fil-A habits last week, this one’s for you. After selecting what you ate at Chick Fil A, you can “right your lightly breaded wrong” by agreeing to a penance, like donating to a LGBT organization. Thanks to Ramzi for sharing this gem with me.

We work. Almost every day. At least Monday-Friday. And work can be exhausting. And hectic. And even annoying. But then, sometimes, you work on a project that really gets you excited about what you do. That labor of love that reminds you why you work crazy hours, why you put in that extra 10%.

For me, that labor of love (well, part of it!) is finally public, as of today! So go ahead and check out these videos we made for Dentyne, showing how their Split2Fit pack fits just about anywhere - including this guy’s dong sarong. [Yep, a client-approved video with ‘dong sarong’ in it - How cool is that?!] Next week, we’ll be releasing some cheeky instructoart graphics that will show you how you can better fit in this summer. (Just in case you need some help!)

We’ll be releasing more videos (and more instructoart!) for the rest of the year, so if you find yourself running to the store to buy a banana hammock, give Dentyne a ‘like’ on Facebook or show some love on Twitter. Because you’re cool like that, right?!

Dentyne Split2Fit Shorts: Banana Hammock (by TheDentynegum)

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Mantry: a curated selection of items for the modern man. While it’s hard to figure out exactly what Mantry will include, it bills itself as a subscription service and guide for the modern man. Prices haven’t been disclosed just yet, but I’d expect to see it somewhere in between Birchbox ($10/delivery) & Quarterly ($25/delivery.) Complete with a logo that could be from Hipster Branding and a well-designed Tumblr, this is something to watch. High-res

Mantry: a curated selection of items for the modern man.

While it’s hard to figure out exactly what Mantry will include, it bills itself as a subscription service and guide for the modern man. Prices haven’t been disclosed just yet, but I’d expect to see it somewhere in between Birchbox ($10/delivery) & Quarterly ($25/delivery.) Complete with a logo that could be from Hipster Branding and a well-designed Tumblr, this is something to watch.

United Noshes: one meal per UN member, Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.   United Noshes is a project that aims to cook one ‘feast’ from every United Nations member and permanent observer from A-Z. After carefully researching recipes, the food is prepared in traditional ways and shared with friends. To see the countries and feasts thus far or to sign up to attend a meal with these Brooklyn-dwellers, visit UnitedNoshes.com. High-res

United Noshes: one meal per UN member, Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.  

United Noshes is a project that aims to cook one ‘feast’ from every United Nations member and permanent observer from A-Z. After carefully researching recipes, the food is prepared in traditional ways and shared with friends. To see the countries and feasts thus far or to sign up to attend a meal with these Brooklyn-dwellers, visit UnitedNoshes.com.

This desk will be disappointed if you don’t draw all over it.  Whether you’re a meticulous note-taker or a seemingly random doodler, the “Post-Itable” desk is for you. Only problem? It was created a few years ago as part of a competition. If you’re not up for a DIY project, Miguel Mestre, a Lisbon-based designer, has a similar desk that he created, with prices available upon request. High-res

This desk will be disappointed if you don’t draw all over it. 

Whether you’re a meticulous note-taker or a seemingly random doodler, the “Post-Itable” desk is for you. Only problem? It was created a few years ago as part of a competition. If you’re not up for a DIY project, Miguel Mestre, a Lisbon-based designer, has a similar desk that he created, with prices available upon request.

Source The Atlantic