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Is the world ready for carbonated strawberry milk, or at least Pepsi Japan's interpretation of what such a hurl-inducing formula might taste like? Well like it or not, Pepsi Pink is coming: on November 8th, to be exact.The glitzy metallic-labeled bottles at least look nice, replete with strawberry imagery and cute polka dots meant to evoke the seed-studded skins of what must be Japan's favorite fruit. The complementary 490ml of “gorgeous pink cola” that fills each bottle makes Pepsi Pink “suitable for the winter party season,” whatever and whenever that may be. I'm quoting Suntory's (Pepsi's distributor in Japan) press release here, and it seems the suits are really hoping to make Pepsi Pink a success with the target market being Japan's trendy, cute-obsessed legions of young ladies. “Enjoy the rich aroma and refreshing taste of strawberry milk flavored cola,” Suntory subtly implores, although enjoyment is the furthest thing from my mind when contemplating the unnatural melding of Milk and Cola. It might make a good match with a curiously similar Japanese snack, Strawberry Cheetos. 
Pepsi Pink as a soft drink concept pales in comparison with some of Pepsi Japan's previous seasonal offerings, which included Pepsi Caribbean Gold, Pepsi Baobab, and going all the way back to the beginning: Pepsi Ice Cucumber. It more closely resembles Pepsi White, an innocuous concoction which invoked the subtle sweet/sour flavor of yogurt. As mentioned, Pepsi Pink will be released on November 8th, 2011, and will only be available for a limited time. Get it while it's hot; drink it while it's cold. (via Gigazine and Sakura Financial News) ----- Buyer: "Can I have a Pepsi please"? 
Adult Truths …
1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die. 2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong . 3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger. 4. There is great need for a sarcasm font. 5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet? 6. Was learning cursive really necessary? 7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on # 5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood. 8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died. 9. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired. 10. Bad decisions make good stories. 11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day. 12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection...again. 13. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page technical report that I swear I did not make any changes to. 14. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call. 15. I think the freezer deserves a light as well. 16. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lite than Kay. 17. I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option. 18. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger. 19. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said? 20. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters! 21. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever. 22. Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is. 23. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I'd bet everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time. 24. The first testicular guard, the "Cup," was used in Hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974. That means it only took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important. Quit Laughing ...
Heal the past, live the present, dream the future.
Enjoy Life!
KODAK IS DEAD
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My work is done.
Those words were some of the last penned by George Eastman. He
included them in his suicide note.
They mark an ignoble end to a noble life, the leave taking of a truly
great man.
The same words could now be said for the company he left behind.
My work is done.
For all intents and purposes, the Eastman Kodak Company is through. It
has been mismanaged financially, technologically and competitively.
For 20 years, its leaders have foolishly spent down the patrimony of a
century's prosperity. One of America's bedrock brands is about to
disappear, the Kodak moment has passed.
It is as wrong as suicide, and, like suicide, is the result of
horrifically poor decisions, a fatal wound of self-infliction.
But George Eastman is not how he died, and the Eastman Kodak Company
is not how it is being killed. Though the ends be needless and
premature, they must not be allowed to overshadow the greatness that
came before.
History testifies of the greatness of George Eastman.
It must also bear witness of the greatness of Kodak.
Few companies have done so much good for so many people, or defined
and lifted so profoundly the spirit of a nation and perhaps the world.
It is impossible to understand the 20th Century without recognizing
the role of the Eastman Kodak Company.
Kodak served mankind through entertainment, science, national defense
and the stockpiling of family memories.
Kodak took us to the top of Mount Suribachi and to the Sea of
Tranquility. It introduced us to the merry old Land of Oz and to stars
from Charlie Chaplin to John Wayne, and Elizabeth Taylor to Tom Hanks.
It showed us the shot that killed President Kennedy, and his brother
bleeding out on a kitchen floor, and a fallen Martin Luther King Jr.
on the hard balcony of a Memphis motel.
When that sailor kissed the nurse, and when the spy planes saw
missiles in Cuba, Kodak was the eyes of a nation. From the deck of the
Missouri to the grandeur of Monument Valley, Kodak took us there.
Virtually every significant image of the 20th Century is a gift to
posterity from the Eastman Kodak Company.
In an era of easy digital photography, when we can take a picture of
anything at any time, we cannot imagine what life was like before
George Eastman brought photography to people. Yes, there were
photographers, and for relatively large sums of money they would take
stilted pictures in studios and formal settings.
But most people couldn't afford photographs, and so all they had to
remember distant loved ones, or earlier times of their lives, was
memory. Children could not know what their parents had looked like as
young people, grandparents far away might never learn what their
grandchildren looked like.
Eastman Kodak allowed memory to move from the uncertainty of
recollection, to the permanence of a photograph.
But it wasn't just people whose features were savable; it was events,
the sacred and precious times that families cherish. The Kodak moment,
was humanity's moment. It was that place in time where there is joy,
where life has its ultimate purpose.
From the earliest round Brownie pictures, to the squares of 126 and
the rectangles of 35mm, Kodak let the fleeting moments of birthdays
and weddings, picnics and parties, be preserved and saved. It allowed
for the creation of the most egalitarian art form. Lovers could take
one another's pictures, children were photographed walking out the
door on the first day of school, the person releasing the shutter
decided what was worth recording, and hundreds of millions of such
decisions were made.
And for centuries to come, those long dead will smile and dance and
communicate to their unborn progeny. Family history will be not only
names on paper, but smiles on faces.
Thanks to Kodak.
The same Kodak that served is in space and on countless battlefields.
This company went to war for the United States and played an important
part in surveillance and reconnaissance. It also went to the moon and
everywhere in between.
All while generating a cash flow that employed countless thousands of
salt-of-the-earth people, and which allowed the company's founder to
engage in some of the most generous philanthropy in America's history.
Not just in Kodak's home city of Rochester, New York, but in Tuskegee
and London, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He
bankrolled two historically black colleges, fixed the teeth of
Europe's poor, and quietly did good wherever he could.
And Kodak made that possible.
While doing good, Kodak did very well.
And all the Kodakers over all the years are essential parts of that
monumental legacy. They prospered a great company, but they - with
that company - blessed the world.
That is what we should remember about the Eastman Kodak Company.
Like its founder, we should remember how it lived, not how it died.
My work is done.
Perhaps that is true of Kodak.
If it is, we should be grateful that such a company ever existed. We
should rejoice in and show respect for that existence.
History will forget the small men who have scuttled this company.
But history will never forget Kodak.
- by Bob Lonsberry
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PPS: Great pictures
