Archive for December, 2006

Incredible Song

A little late for Christmas, but still worth sharing.

The music was originally broadcast on Studio 60 put together by the folks at the Tipitina’s Foundation, an organization dedicated to helping artists recover from Hurricane Katrina.  Last year they raised $500,000 for new instruments alone. If you’re feeling generous, you [...]

links for 2006-12-30

contourcase.com | showcase video
Absolutely the finest cases for iPod come from the folks at Contour. I had a hard clamshell case for my old iPod and it travel thousands of miles with me. The case is beat to hell, but my iPod looks like new. So you can imagine when I got my new video [...]

Best “Out of Office” ever

My buddy Andy from WOMMA has perhaps the best “Out of Office” message ever.
I will be out of the office at WOMMA’s Word of Mouth Marketing Summit and Research Symposium until Thursday. I will have limited access to email.1. Reporters and emergencies: Please call my cell at xxx-xxx-xxxx.2. Wife and parents: You may also [...]

links for 2006-12-27

The Viral Garden: Methinks the ‘Z-Listers’ are winning
The “Z-list” meme (the point being to share other cool blogs to help get them more traffic and attention) has gone nuts! Thanks to Mack for lighting this fire.
(tags: blogging zlist)

Happy Holidays!!

Before the Christmas festivities kick off, I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! For some Christmas fun, check out the Elf Yourself app. Too funny.
Travel safe, drink the nog, and kiss your family!

RANT: Bloggers morph into Jack Black.

Do you remember Jack Black’s character from High Fidelity? Black is a clerk at one of those fantastic There’s a great scene where Black goes nuts on a potential customer who asks for a cheesy album for his daughter. (Here’s a reminder) Rather than use this request as an opening to enlighten the customer with [...]

Quote of the week

This is a fantastic quote from Arianna Huffington from a recent Playboy interview:
"The mainstream media has ADD, and the blogosphere has OCD"
Perfect description. And see, we all fit together nicely in this nuthouse we call life.
While I’m mentioning the Playboy interview, I’ll also share their list of the Top 10 Political Blogs:

The Daily Dish
Power Line
Captain’s [...]

links for 2006-12-23

Wolfmother
I found this cool new band, Wolfmother from one of the other bloggers I read. Rough, moody, fantastic.
(tags: music)

LEGO Tattoo Collection
That’s right, fans of LEGO sometimes ink themselves with LEGO tattoos!. Check out the artwork.
(tags: fandom)

The Brain Trust does lunch

The Brain Trust does lunch

Originally uploaded by sink21.

Johnnie Moore (http://brandautopsy.com/), Spike Jones (http://www.brainsonfire.com) and I have lunch while they were in town for the holidays.

links for 2006-12-22

YouTube - AFOL Introduction video
I can’t recall if I’ve ever posted this, but if so please ignore the duplicate! I created this video a few years back as part of an effort to example adult LEGO fans to my colleagues inside the company. For the price of Adobe Premiere (oh iMovie, where wa
(tags: video LEGO [...]