Now for a combination '90s music video-commercial parody:

That Barq's commercial is burned into my brain, it's pretty much the perfect TV commercial. I think it was single-handedly responsible for my 6 month root beer addiction. Still great. My second-favourite 90's commercial barely ran here, I only saw it once, but it was memorable:

That's pure 90s straight into the veins! Yowza!

I'll see your now-retro commercial and raise you a now-retro music video:

"I haven't seen him that excited since he got his new heels"

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Why you should never, ever touch that hospital elevator button

Hospital elevator buttons, because they are more often touched by our built-in germ transmission devices (e.g. our hands) are ~15-25% more likely to be colonized by pathogenic and (most often) non-pathogenic bacteria than toilet surface

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So this seems like something worth sharing here.

Fireworks filmed with a drone.


I'm not sure how I feel about the rapidly increasing ubiquity of drones, but this is kinda cool.

Ironically, one of the biggest social problems currently reported at work is lack of confidence, also known as Impostor Syndrome. People with confidence try to help people fix their Impostor Syndrome, under the theory that they are in fact as smart as people say they are, and they just need to accept it.

But I think Impostor Syndrome is valuable. The people with Impostor Syndrome are the people who *aren't* sure that a logical proof of their smartness is sufficient. They're looking around them and finding something wrong, an intuitive sense that around here, logic does not always agree with reality, and the obviously right solution does not lead to obviously happy customers, and it's unsettling because maybe smartness isn't enough, and maybe if we don't feel like we know what we're doing, it's because we don't.

Impostor Syndrome is that voice inside you saying that not everything is as it seems, and it could all be lost in a moment. The people with the problem are the people who can't hear that voice.

John Oliver is killing it on Last Week Tonight. Here's his amazing two-part summary of the West's impact on LGBT rights in Uganda and his great interview with Pepe Julian Onziema:

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I'll be taking a little break due to vacation and as well as to avoid burnout. I've almost done 2 years worth of work up to this point, I think I deserve a break.