Found on Hell Yeah Bitch, "Dell Responds to the MacBook Air".
Technorati Tags: Apple, MacBook Air, commercial, funny, video
Stumbled across two great videos this morning. What a great way to start off the week!
Gabe and Max's Internet Thing
via Marc Andreessen, who also posted this gem about rogue trader Jerome Kerviel.
Google Maps Street View Extreme™
Much better than any of the Super Bowl ads…
NBC did a good job incorporating all four shows, but I wish it was longer.
Technorati Tags: That's What She Said, The Office, My Name Is Earl, Scrubs, 30 Rock, NBC, commercial, funny, comedy, YouTube
I've been following IvyGate, a blog about the Ivy League, for a few months now and I absolutely love them. Not only is it relevant (though not for long :(), but the guys who write it are hilarious. Here's some choice quotes/links:
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Grad students are, pretty much by default, creepy. Not undergrads, not yet professors, they're caught in the murky gray zone that's home to both legitimate career academics and social misfits with no job prospects. (source)
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Killer econ prof may soon learn something about the prisoner's dilemma. (source)
- An Enrique Iglesias parody about Facebook stalking
- And last but not least: Penn's reputation-demolishing stories of the year
Technorati Tags: Penn, University of Pennsylvania, Ivy League, UPenn, university, college, school
Hugh of gapingvoid has posted some "Random Blogging Notes". At first glance, it looks like a typical "How to get more traffic/become rich/etc." After actually reading it, you'll quickly learn it's typical Hugh MacLeod "f**k you and the world you live in" style (which I enjoy thoroughly), and so by definition doesn't sugarcoat any of the realities both A- and Z-listers face. Some of my favorites:
8. So you a read lot of A-Listers. Congratulations. You now know a lot of stuff everybody else knows.
9. It’s damn hard not to read a lot of A-Listers. They got to where they are for a reason.
16. The day you can write as compellingly and consistently as say, Kathy Sierra, Jeff Jarvis, Guy Kawasaki or Michael Arrington, will be the day I start taking your complaints of low traffic seriously.
40. When people ask me what the future of media is, I always answer, “RSS”. Thank you, Winer & Co. Seriously.
And to top it all off…
41. Most of the stuff on this list is wrong.
Technorati Tags: blogging, blogs, notes, a-list, gapingvoid, Hugh MacLeod
No, this isn't a religious post, it's just part of a funny conversation I had with my sister earlier today:
Me: Did your internet just go down?
Her: Yeah. Whenever that happens I think it's a message from God to get off the computer and do my homework.
Me: Well what am I supposed to do? … Oh wait, it's back.
Her: Guess he wanted you to have it again.
Technorati Tags: funny, internet, downtime, homework, conversation
I've recently begun to think Ze Frank is the funniest man on the internet. I'm catching up on old shows since I just subscribed to his video blog/vlog/video podcast/vidcast/videoqjtnbmkjg a few days ago, when I stumbled across this gem from the July 11th show:
I run out of ideas every day! Each day I live in mortal fear that I've used up the last idea that'll ever come to me. If you don't wanna run out of ideas the best thing to do is not to execute them. You can tell yourself that you don't have the time or resources to do 'em right. Then they stay around in your head like brain crack. No matter how bad things get, at least you have those good ideas that you'll get to later.
Some people get addicted to that brain crack. And the longer they wait, the more they convince themselves of how perfectly that idea should be executed. And they imagine it on a beautiful platter with glitter and rose petals. And everyone's clapping for them. But the, but the, but the, but the bummer is most ideas kinda suck when you do 'em. And no matter how much you plan you still have to do something for the first time. And you're almost guaranteed the first time you do something it'll blow. But somebody who does something bad three times still has three times the experience of that other person who's still dreaming of all the applause. When I get an idea, even a bad one, I try to get it out into the world as fast as possible, 'cause I certainly don't want to be addicted to brain crack.
Absolutely brilliant. And the song right after it is amazing as well (though it's not for kids if you care don't want them to hear "bad" words).
Technorati Tags: Ze Frank, video podcast, vlog, video blog, vidcast, video, blog, podcast, funny, ideas, inspirational
Here's a pair of links to tradition media (gasp!) prince VH1's Best Week Ever Blog.
The first video is a take on the current Apple "Get a Mac"
ad campaign, featuring a hip guy as a Mac and a nerdy guy as a PC. The second video is a take on Adam Sandler's movie career summed up in just a matter of minutes.
Technorati Tags: Apple, Get a Mac, PC, spoof, parody, commercials, trailers, Adam Sandler, movies, VH1, Best Week Ever, blog, old media, traditional media, television
Procrasinatr is an application that purports to "prioritize your calendars and regain lost time." Read on to find out what it really does…
