Nordstrom

Props to Nordstrom STL for having a twitter account and is using it actively.

http://twitter.com/NordstromSTL

St. Louis tops the chart again

Top 10 unhappiest American cities

1. Portland, Ore.
2. St. Louis
3. New Orleans
4. Detroit
5. Cleveland
6. Jacksonville, Fla.
7. Las Vegas
8. Nashville-Davidson, Tenn.
9. Cincinnati
10. Atlanta

Read the BusinessWeek slideshow here.

And to compare and contrast, check out this slideshow on the The World's Happiest Countries. Of course, US is no where on the list.

Lumière Place

A bunch of us are going to the no-longer-newly-opened Lumière Place tomorrow for dinner. According to the website there are couple of restaurant to choose from:

• SLeeK
• Burger Bar
• The Kitchen Buffet and Bistro
• Asia
• Peet's Coffee and Tea
• House of Savoy

Have you:
1. Been to Lumière and what is the dress code?
2. Been to any of the restaurant above?
2. If yes, what do you think of the food? price?

path blocked

I knew it was just a matter of time before the water spills out to the road. Sure enough as I was heading to work WB44 traffic was backed up past Bowles exit. The 141 exit off I44 is closed and north highway drive is packed with drivers thinking that they can bypass the traffic and was forced to turn around at the "Road Closed" sign right outside my office building.

empty reader

My Google reader is empty and I need something to read when my mind needs to take a break.

Right now my RSS subscriptions consist of:
Auto
1. German car blog
Fashion
2. Sartorialist
3. Life in a venti cup
Home
4. Apartment therapy
5. Ljcfyi
6. Blue art studio
7. This young house
8. How about orange
9. Ikea hacker
10. Making it lovely
Misc
11. Design and production tips & techniques
12. St. Louis real estate
14. Rasa Malaysia
+ other personal blogs

I need some recommendations. What other site(s) should I check out?

seahorse rescue

My sister is a long term volunteer at a non-profit organization (Save Our Seahorses) that are committed to saving seahorses in the southern part of Malaysia, in the state of Johor.

There are plans to build petroleum storage around the area, and will greatly threaten the environment surrounding as well as the future of the seahorses. One of my sister's task is to educate the local people. More information can be found on the Save Our Seahorses website.

There is a online petition that my sister is hoping that they will get 5o00 signatures and the current count is 4621 (at time of posting). I'm not sure that 5000 signature will be enough to stop the harm, but I want to give my sister all the support I can get.

If you have a moment and would like to learn about the petition and maybe sign it, visit the petition link at "Seahorse in perils"

Thanks for reading.

social media world map

Came across this link from jowyang's twitter.

Social networks: different audiences according to continents'

Click on the map above to see it in full size.

Some translation via babelfish to help decipher the map:

• Par pays: By country
• Etats-unis: United States
• Corée du Sud: South Korea
• un quart des inscrits dans le monde: a quarter of the registered voters in the world
• un tiers des inscrits dans le monde: a third of the registered voters in the world

Some "hmm, wow" moments for me:

• Despite its popularity in the U.S., Facebook was not listed in the Top 5 in Asia.
• Orkut's popularity
• Cyworld and where it ranked in S. Korea AND in Asia
• How unpopular myspace is in Asia.

Personally, I have accounts in facebook, myspace, orkut, multiply, and Friendster. Friendster is probably the only one that I keep up-to-date and is linked to my friends.

What accounts do you have? Do you use them regularly?