The last time Maybelline pushed make-up for men...short fad

Joost

Joost went live. I have invites. Holla at me if you want one.

If you don't know what it is you better ask somebody.

creating...intimacy?

we all saw barrie, alexis and chopski/schilling's strategy come to life rather nicely with the TLC work. after reading a recent article about how no one wants to travel here (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10436518 -i know! i have to learn how to create links. i'm re-re.), i wondered to myself, "whatever became of 'See America'?"

upon visiting SeeAmerica.org, i was saddened because it seemed as if it was exactly the same...but, wait...there's more...

http://www.eusatravelguide.com/welcome.php?lang=en

they've included a link to a separate site that utilizes some of our recommendations (albeit in a terribly art directed/designed/copywritten way). i.e., emo maps along with featuring info and pics on the various regions, a la Australia. you can also click onto a guide that features one of the logos designed by the awesome design kids (i love you merkin.) it's totally ugmo, but i guess it's a start. hopefully, it's just a start.

and then randomly, there's a "Discover America, Sweden!" site.(http://www.discoveramerica.se/).

so, in other words, it all still sucks.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I Found Robert!

However, Caroline is still M.I.A.

Super Secret Location

This is the Tourist Club. Pretty famous out here. It's an Austrian Beer Haus in the middle of Mir Woods. It's about an 1 1/2 hour hike up and up through the Redwood Trees. Once there you are greeted with other hikers, weird cured meats, boardgames on the huge communal tables, and some of the most amazing views ever.
Apparently they have live bands play in the summer. It's amazing. Come and I'll show you.

treasure

ok. domenique introduced me to this. i can't take full credit.
this blog is one of the best things ever. no really, it is. not like when tom says that legends is the 'best bar ever.' because that's just a total lie.

the author lives in brooklyn, has an amazing cat that has digestive problems and a huge attitude problem, and he writes about bad TV shows as well as other ridiculousness on TV. not like some gossip blog. it's intelligent and quick witted.

i highly recommend wasting a ton of time on it.

amazing blog of incredibleness

the good old days

it's amazing what you think is totally normal when you're little.
for instance this show.

it don't make no sense.

my post of the week

So, who's going to SD in August? I'm planning on driving from SD to Seattle, maybe Canada. Anyone want to hop in the car with?

Remember these shows?





Increase your productivity...

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/05/33-rules-to-boost-your-productivity/

Nuke it!
The most efficient way to get through a task is to delete it. If it doesn’t need to be done, get it off your to do list.

Daily goals.
Without a clear focus, it’s too easy to succumb to distractions. Set targets for each day in advance. Decide what you’ll do; then do it.

Worst first.
To defeat procrastination learn to tackle your most unpleasant task first thing in the morning instead of delaying it until later in the day. This small victory will set the tone for a very productive day.

And, we just got a new painting last week at our long table/open plan/collaborative workspace. Cooooool.



That took me less than five minutes to post.

Mandatory Posting Day

Can you peeps post some more stuff on this blog? I think this should be a mandatory posting day. In or out. Everyone needs to post something.

Did ya'll ever watch this show? Best show ever. I miss it. And if anyone (besides Felix) can name the show you get extra credit.

Happy Spring

It's finally getting warmer here.

The wife: It drips a lot of oil, doesn't it?

Capt R: All diesels do that.

Martin Short: All diesels do that, honey.

Capt R: Diesels love oil like a sailor loves rum.

Martin Short: Yes! Why is that, Captain Ron?

Capt R: Nobody knows.

Why Fenke loves Planning...

Update: I was driving home today and realized that some people may not know Mark Fenske. So, I've pasted a picture of his Adcenter bio at the bottom of the post.

About 70 students showed up to Mark Fenske's session this afternoon. I was impressed with the amount of people who attended from all tracks. I tried to take as many notes as possible. Please take into account that I missed some parts, but I was able to scribble all of his major points. He used the Elmo for his presentation.

My Love of Planning

What I Like:
1. Planners don't try to make an ad out of everything.
People don't like ads.
Planners possess a natural curiosity, which seeks the core of every new thing, which looks and appraises each product, each subject as if it could move what they must believe.

2. Planners converse
Argument is a means to wisdom

3. Planners tell the truth
...The most fertile ground is away from the doctrine. That land is all trampled in peoples minds.

4. Planners are schlubs
Planners don't try to be better than the rest of us. Real people don't live in NY, go to clubs, stay at La Mondraine, or drink $100 bottles of wine

5. Planners cry
Feelings are first. Feelings trump. If you ever want to win an argument, feel something.

6. Planners are ad people
"I'm not a planner." John Steele

Planners are good writers. ("I've met two that write better than me," Mark Fenske)
Planners know the game.


Read the rest here...

http://dalynnf.blogspot.com/2007/04/school-4.html

The Eyewear Company

I think we got a B on this project...

http://adverlab.blogspot.com/2007/04/polaroid-and-word-of-mouth.html



My friend Rekha told me about this optical shop up at Harvard Square called Eye Q Optical. They recognize that choosing the right frames can be a difficult job. They do a smart thing. They take a Polaroid snapshot of you with the glasses on so that you can show it to your friends and see what they think. Word of mouth by design.

boring, work-related question...

does anybody know of any focus group facilities in oklahoma city?

doesn't matter if you've used them or not. i've got nothing...

Look at this happy chap!

Enlighten me.

Maybe I'm just old, or maybe I'm just distracted by all of the new vocabulary words with the root "twitter," but I seriously don't understand the appeal of this. For me it seems like wasted time that I could've actually just called, IMed, or texted a friend to tell them about an atrociously awesome quote from ANTM. And if you don't know what that even means, then why would you want to be notified of it when I actually did twitter it?

At first I thought I was just missing something, but Kate assured me that I wasn't alone in this confusion.

It has 100,000 participants, which I realize isn't a lot in the grand scheme, but it's still enough that it's weird.

read the Twitter link

Seriously? Luggage tag day?

Went to a Mets game this Saturday. Super day. Sun was out, Mets won!

But you know how you go to games and sometimes they have free t-shirt day, or bat day, or hat day or something, when everybody gets something free.

Well, Saturday was free luggage tag day. I'm serious. Luggage tag day... what a crock!

The good times as they once were, the good times as they will be again

I love you all.

An email from an old professor at Tech:

Dear ACIS 3314 Students,

My family's worst fears were confirmed a few hours ago. My daughter, Austin Michelle Cloyd, was one of the victims in Norris Hall. She would have been 19 years old next Tuesday. My family hurts deeply for the loss of our precious baby. We ask that you pray for us and for the rest of the Virginia Tech community that has suffered so greatly. At this point I don't know how or where our class will continue. The guest speakers scheduled for April 25 and April 30 may carry on, but in a different location. Expect to receive an email from Professor Brown or an announcement on Blackboard about this.

If we don't meet again, your final assignment from me is perhaps the most important lesson you will learn in life. Go to your mother, father, brothers and sisters and tell them with all your heart how much you love them. And tell them that you know how much they love you too. Go out of your way to make good memories. At some point, these memories may be all you have left.

May God bless you all,

Bryan

a Felix birthday

Felix!
Originally uploaded by tokyohanna.

It was so good. We drank a lot (champagne included). We also told some QUITE interesting stories about classmates. If you're reading this, hey, we may have talked about you. Nothing bad though, don't worry :) It was Felix, his friend Jaime, Kristen M, Amy N, Kate and myself @ Highline in the Meatpacking District. Delicious. We wish you all could have been there.

16 April

Happy Birthday Felix!

Vanguards

Newcomers who are changing New Orleans


Editor's note: Susan Roesgen is a CNN correspondent based in New Orleans. She has more than a decade of experience covering New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.

I'm tired. This town is tired. Tired of waiting. Tired of the run around from the insurance guy, the FEMA guy, the Small Business Administration guy, pick your guy. We're too worn out to be fed up. It's like, whatever.

The people who keep track of things like worn out New Orleanians did a survey. They found that about half the people who've made it this far after the hurricane are seriously considering throwing in the towel. The big indignities -- like crime -- and the little indignities -- like the hole in the street that won't ever get fixed -- are just too much. We survived the hurricane because we said we'd never leave New Orleans, but honestly, other cities are starting to look pretty darn good.

Lucky for us, reinforcements have arrived. Bright, well-educated, and eager. We could hate them if we had the strength. Instead, we're glad to see their new ideas and new energy, and they say they're here to stay. Here are a few:

Pastor Ray Cannata from New Jersey. He turned down a cushy job in San Diego to take over a Presbyterian church that was down to just 15 members after the storm. Ray's real world philosophy -- "God is messy; a Christian's job is to go where the pain is" -- and his real world work ethic -- the church has gutted more than two hundred houses -- is winning new converts. The congregation is at a hundred now, and growing.

John Alford, whiz kid from New York. Harvard MBA grad. Where is he today? Trying to hire teachers to reopen a flooded New Orleans school. He fell in love with the city's jazz and food, but says the schools here are "a horror." His goal is to start with one fifth-grade class to help spur a new wave of smart kids in what's left of one of the shabbiest school districts in the nation.

Sherrita Bishop. Criminology degree from the University of New Mexico. Did the tourist thing in New Orleans a month before the hurricane, then waited for the water to go down so she could come back and strap on a gun. She's one of the first 30 new police recruits since the storm. Why? "I don't know why," she says. "I just found a niche. I want to do what I can to help people."
Who are these misty-eyed idealists? Locals call them the new "vanguard." Tim Williamson, a New Orleans native, founded a company that matches investors to budding entrepreneurs. He says the newcomers will change the city.

"They believe that New Orleans is one of the greatest challenges in their lifetimes. How could they sit back and go to New York, Boston, Atlanta, when they have this grand opportunity in New Orleans?" he says.

Their "grand opportunity" may be the city's salvation.

alligatoroo

life was so simple then

Dear Future Me:

Its like PostSecret, but notes that you send to your future self.

futureme.org

i've been licking my screen all morning

this test REALLY works. it WILL NOT work unless you put your tongue on the screen.

"We've been licking our screen all afternoon and still can't figure out the insane new technologies behind the Barbarian Group's latest addition to the Milwaukee's Best Light microgames site. All we know is the T Scan 2000 Biometric Taste Analyzer knows us better than we know ourselves. Simply place your tongue on the screen and click the box to scan the science stuff in your mouth. It'll let you know if you have a man's taste and dispense the prescription: a cold beer. If it doesn't work the first time, fiddle with the settings a bit to adjust the Zone Recursivity or Moisture Threshold. If you've got a tough time keeping your tongue on the screen and finding the button to click, call a friend over. And for heavens sakes wipe the monitor before he or she has a turn."

UPDATE: With a collective group of people. we finally figured it out but still a good joke to play on friends.

mikekarnj (3:02:30 PM): its triggered for timed responses
mikekarnj (3:02:43 PM): bc if u cheat and dont put your tongue down, you tap scan
mikekarnj (3:02:50 PM): when u put your tongue on, you hold it down
mikekarnj (3:02:59 PM): so if you hold it down, it works every time after the first time
mikekarnj (3:03:04 PM): bc the first time, everyone cheats

seriously?

http://wkstudio.typepad.com/studio/2007/04/rock_steady_cre.html

color me jealous. now that's a party.

Big Wheel Keep On Turning

San Francisco pretty much just kicks ass. After my Adult Easter Egg hunt a bunch of us walked the two blocks to the always tourist trappy Lombard Street where the 7th annual Bring Your Own Big Wheel event was to take place. It's a bunch of silly ass adults wearing crazy costumes who bomb down the crazy crooked road. That's it. It isn't sanctioned. It stops up all traffic for about an hour (they do three runs) and is pretty insane- they get those little wheels rolling. The one cop that was there pretty much just asked people to move out of the way of the Trolley.
Here is a link to a rather long video of the event.
http://www.sfist.com/archives/2007/04/09/big_wheel_keep_on_turning.php

I had trouble getting my hands on a big wheel (they were understandably scarce in the week preceding). Just a WTF or maybe Why The Hell Not kind of thing that makes living here always interesting.

Riddle

Brain stumper.
Who's been in more random movies than Luis Guzman?
Major roles do not count.



I'll send the winner beads from New Orleans.

End of the Week

Has anyone seen the Chapelle lost episodes? They are 'hilarious like Nick Cannon', funny.
http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/chappelles_show/index.jhtml

Meet Zeus Jones.
http://www.zeusjones.com/

Quote of the Week.
'My answer is get out my car'
(Bet you can't guess what show that is from)


Song of the Week.
(This video is actually good)

What's your favourite cover song?

I've been listening to a lot of covers lately and would like to know what your favourite cover song is.

According to the Rolling Stone, the best cover songs are:

* Jimi Hendrix: Bob Dylan’s “All Along The Watchtower”
* Johnny Cash: Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt”
* The White Stripes: Dolly Parton’s “Jolene”
* The Fugees: Lori Lieberman’s “Killing Me Softly”
* Eric Clapton: Bob Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff”

Here is one with Ben Folds doing Such Great Heights


And Mat Weddle doing an acoustic version of Hey Ya.

yes or no? yay or nay?

a little bird (named danny burke) heard that they were changing the name of adcenter...to the "brandcenter"...um, yeah, gross.

true or not true? what have you guys heard? what do you guys think?

Ok, so ideas trump polish.

Maybe this is systemic of my total abhorrence for presentation flourishes, especially those that are created in anything over three minutes, in anything ending in note or point (how topical!), but this is a really sweet example of an idea done simply, and done well.

http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/

It's for a new book. Done by the author (probably?). No, I haven't read it.

Powerpoint Sucks

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/04/03/1175366240499.html


Anna Patty Education Editor
April 4, 2007

If you have ever wondered why your eyes start glazing over as you read those dot points on the screen, as the same words are being spoken, take heart in knowing there is a scientific explanation.

It is more difficult to process information if it is coming at you in the written and spoken form at the same time.

The Australian researchers who made the findings may have pronounced the death of the PowerPoint presentation.

They have also challenged popular teaching methods, suggesting that teachers should focus more on giving students the answers, instead of asking them to solve problems on their own.

Pioneered at the University of NSW, the research shows the human brain processes and retains more information if it is digested in either its verbal or written form, but not both at the same time.

It also questions the wisdom of centuries-old habits, such as reading along with Bible passages, at the same time they are being read aloud in church. More of the passages would be understood and retained, the researchers suggest, if heard or read separately.

The findings show there are limits on the brain's capacity to process and retain information in short-term memory.

John Sweller, from the university's faculty of education, developed the "cognitive load theory".

"The use of the PowerPoint presentation has been a disaster," Professor Sweller said. "It should be ditched."

"It is effective to speak to a diagram, because it presents information in a different form. But it is not effective to speak the same words that are written, because it is putting too much load on the mind and decreases your ability to understand what is being presented."

The findings that challenge common teaching methods suggest that instead of asking students to solve problems on their own, teachers helped students more if they presented already solved problems.

"Looking at an already solved problem reduces the working memory load and allows you to learn. It means the next time you come across a problem like that, you have a better chance at solving it," Professor Sweller said.

The working memory was only effective in juggling two or three tasks at the same time, retaining them for a few seconds. When too many mental tasks were taken on some things were forgotten.

he has my eyes!

he has my eyes!
Originally uploaded by tokyohanna.

Saturday morning was very joyous for me - I bought a bicycle! It was from a guy named Carlos, at an East Village flea market. He is from Puerto Rico and I warmed to him immediately. Anyway, the bike is a boy, and I named him Tony. We bonded all day in McCarren Park and other parts o Williamsburg and Greenpoint. I'm excited for more of this bicycle weather. Who in NYC has one too? Tony needs friends.

Happy Friday

Eric Boyd and I have named him Herman.
He is totally bizarre looking and yet fascinating.

The future

This one is longish, but worth it I promise.

A few times a year I stumble across something that changes my perception of community and social networks, and a few other times I discover some art form or movement that compels me to talk about it incessantly. Yesterday I found something that is both.
http://www.wefeelfine.org/
This is the latest iteration of social amalgamation on the web. It was just unveiled out of beta at the TED conference last week. The idea behind sites like this, and others like www.moodviews.com, and offline works that are displayed online like http://postsecret.blogspot.com/, is that there has to be a way to show, on a mass scale, how people are feeling. With the explosion of blogs and the leaps of technology Spiders have made in the past few years, it is now totally possible to troll for specific keywords on a global scale.

Wefeelfine.org would be cool if that was all it did. The interface alone is fun, and if you play with the key on the lower left hand side of the window when you run the applet, you can find tons of info to spark your imagination, but it is the gallery that truly offers something amazing:

http://www.wefeelfine.org/gallery/index.php

I say amazing because what you are seeing is completely honest and unflinching. It is without a conscious author. The site simply crawls blog pages for sentences that have the words "i feel" and places them against the closest picture available. It doesn't take into account flow, or structure, it just cuts and overlays.
Some of the art that comes out of this is, well, go see for yourself.

There is a broader message here, a beginning of something that has to do with web identity, and humanity as art, and I think that this is going to convalesce in new and striking ways- that inspire everything from universal communication to design to the squashing of racism and xenophobia. Maybe I'm stretching a little here, but I don't see how this movement won't rise to fundamentally change the individual viewpoint.

Time to Celebrate

OK, since we are in advertising and since I KNOW you would want to be reminded...... today is my birthday! And as it is my birthday, I want to say to all of you that my life is unbelievably great a) because I got it together enough to have three great kids, b) I had the amazing experience of working with all of you ... plus about 85 more of you from other years and c) because I made the decision to design my life and move my ass to California. What a great idea that was! Anyway, blessings to all of you and I hope you all come here to see me tonight with a cake... cheap airfares right now don't cha know. Don't bother with candles - they don't make cakes big enough to put them all on....

GAH.

It's really fucking hard to concentrate when it's so gorgeous outside. Half of the office is doing work on our fire escape.

hey you crazy kids

take this survey.
it's about being a planner and your personal situation.
it tallies all of the answers and then sends them out to everybody.
in the end we will hopefully see the places that suck, the places that totally rule and the places that are only good for paying for your chipotle.

here's the link to the survey
and then here's the link to receive the results

i know y'all have 3 minutes of time, or else you wouldn't even be spending time here.

congrats to my true love!

I would like to be the first to congratulate sweet sweet Danielli about her brand new job.
She will be going to Carmichael Lynch and I'm so happy for her.
I love you homz.

Cheer up, Barrie. It's not that bad.

Happy berfday Barrie!! Isn't it awesome to be closer to 30 than 20? It could be worse. You could be as old as Tom.

I miss you. Can one of you NYC peeps go buy Barrie some iced animal crackers for me please?

happy birthday, barrie!

to my lover and partner in crime. oh, and my other baby's mama. hope your day is fab. love you!

Tell me that's not Kumar with 2 hands up!

Before I got into advertising...

I used to be an actor.

Featured in classic hits such as Hook, Moesha and Hangin' with Mr. Cooper. Now you can say you know someone famous.

Rufio, Rufio, RUFFIIOOOOOOOO!

Friday Fun

Bored at work? Here's some entertaining shit for yo' ass!

Bonner - Did W+K have any play in putting this together? Rakim is back, watch out!



Kevin and I are the top free agents of the season. Check it out here

And Arnold!

Nike Plus

Felix R/GA made the coolest website for Nike Plus. I have wasted about thirty minutes "interacting" with it. Does anyone want to race? They have this cool feature for challenges.

tom's ex girlfriend.

tom's ex girlfriend

So, you think you have game...

I know I sent some of you the info for our NCAA pool. If you would like to join just send in the filled out bracket and moolah to 9307 Cherokee Rd., Richmond, VA 23235.

I sent it to Fenske, Just, Coughter and few students. This could get pretty big so join in.

And Kevin...VT is NOT going all the waaaayyyyyy!

2007 NCAA Basketball Championship
Gentleman’s Pool

The rules are as stated:
1. All brackets turned in by 9pm 3/14/2007
2. If within Richmond, all $5 donations are to be received in-hand by 9pm 3/14/2007
3. If outside Richmond, we will honor your entry as long as your donation is post dated by 3/14/2007. Call for address.
4. Can play as many brackets as you like as long as a donation accompanies each one.

Scoring:
1. First round correct choices are allotted 1pt.
2. Second round correct choices are allotted 2 pts.
3. First round regional correct choices are allotted 3 pts.
4. Second round regional correct choices are allotted 4 pts.
5. Semifinal correct choices are allotted 5 pts.
6. National Championship correct choice is allotted 6 pts.
7. Final scores from both teams will be added together in National Championship for a final tiebreaker number. The winner with the most points and number closest to the final combination will be chosen the winner, with other two finalists following same regulations.

Winner:
1. First Place-70%
2. Second Place-20%
3. Third Place-10%

Judging;
In order to be biased, there will be two judges, Glenn and Jesse.
Glenn (202) 321-8925, glenn224@hotmail.com
Jesse (804) 514-4905, jrandall6127@hotmail.com

Go here to download the bracket.

http://www.madduxsports.com/2005-march-madness-bracket.html

Friends with benefits

I still can't figure out if this is a good or bad idea. Saw ad/link for this when I logged out of myspace a couple of minutes ago.

http://www.myspace.com/friendswithbenefits

Mindstickers?

I don't know why this campaign ever went away...

300

I'm really jazzed about seeing 300 this weekend, and i've read a couple movie reviews. This one is hands down my favorite review so far:



"I just saw a movie that’ll give your eyes boners, make your balls scream and make you poop DVD copies of THE TRANSPORTER. It’s called 300. I don’t know what the title has to do with the movie, but they could’ve called it KITTENS MAKING CANDLES and it’d still rule.

It’s about these 300 Greek dudes who stomp the sugar-coated shit out of like a million other dudes. I have a feeling that a lot of high school sports coaches are going to show this film to their teams before they play. Also, gay dudes and divorced women are going to use screen captures for computer wallpaper.

The movie takes place about a million years ago, and it’s sort of like a prequel to SIN CITY. Except way less guns and cars but twice as much skull splitting. If you watch this movie and go into a Taco Bell, and say to the cashier, “I need some extra sauce packets” guess what? You’re getting twenty sauce packets because your face will punch him in the brain.

I can’t spoil the plot because THANK GOD THERE ISN’T ONE. Just ass kicking that kicks ass that, while said ass is getting kicked, is kicking yet more ass that’s hitting someone’s balls with a hammer made of ice but the ice is frozen whiskey.

TWO COOL THINGS ABOUT THE MOVIE AND ONE THING I DIDN’T LIKE:

COOL THING ONE:
HEAVY METAL DURING BATTLE SCENES

Who gives a shit if the music isn’t historically correct? LORD OF THE RINGS could’ve used some Journey. This movie has that chu-CHUNG kind of metal that you hear in your head when your shift supervisor at Wetzel’s Pretzel is telling you that you’ll have to stay for clean up and you wish you had a sock filled with quarters in your hand.

COOL THING TWO:
FOES, MINI-BOSSES AND A BIG BOSS

Basically, the Greek dudes are fighting these Persian dudes, but the director, who must have a dick made of three machine guns, does it all like a video game. The Greeks fight every death metal video from the last ten years. There’s wave after wave of giants, freaks, ninjas, mutants, wizards, and a hunchback who looks like he’s got Rosie O’Donnell on his back.

Would I have been happy if Dom DeLuise from HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART I had shown up? Maybe, but this movie more than makes up for that glaring oversight.

NOT SO GOOD THING:
DUDE NUDITY (“DUDE-ITY”)

These are Greek times, when there were a lot of naked women around. And there are some naked women in this film, but almost every naked woman scene has a muscular dude giving the screen an ass picnic. Dude-ity is something directors put in their movies so people will think they’re serious, I guess, and not just throwing in naked hotties.

Any directors reading this – IT’S OKAY TO JUST THROW IN NAKED HOTTIES.

Can’t someone make a movie about naked Amazons and call it PAUSE BUTTON?

My final analysis is 300 the most ass-ruling movie I’ve seen this year, and will probably be the King of 2007 unless someone makes a movie where a pair of sentient boobs fights a werewolf."

The Medici Effect...

I found out about this from a city magazine in Baltimore called The Urbanite. The magazine is doing something called The Urbanite Project, which is based on the book "The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures," by Frans Johansson.
An excerpt from the project reads:

Let me ask you a question. What is the connection between termites and architecture? Shoe designers and car engineers? Lollipops and sea urchins? Or butterflies and mobile phones?

The connections may not be too obvious at first, but each of those combinations represents a remarkable innovation, and an incredible idea. Those who find such unique connections (almost all of us) and dare to pursue them (a lot fewer of us than should be) are the ones who are breaking new ground. Those people who can step into an intersection of different fields or cultures are those who will change the world.

It may seem quite counterintuitive at first—but the fact is that you have the best chance of breaking new ground if you combine what you know today with ideas or concepts from other fields or cultures.

If you guys find this interesting, there's more about the Urbanite Project (involving the writer of HBO's The Wire) at: http://www.urbanitebaltimore.com/sub.cfm?sectionID=4&articleID=625&IssueID=46, and Frans Johansson's blog is: http://themedicieffect.typepad.com/.

More graphs

http://indexed.blogspot.com

Love Chart

Blades of Glory

Is anyone else excited about this movie? I saw a trailer for it over the weekend.


The Story:
"When rival figure skaters Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell) and Jimmy MacElroy (John Heder) go ballistic in an embarrassing, no-holds barred fight at the World Championships, they are stripped of their gold medals and banned from the sport for life. Now, three-and-a-half years on, they've found a loophole that will allow them to compete: if they can put aside their differences, they can skate together - in pairs' figure skating."

sweet.

have you ever gotten the theme to fraggle rock stuck in your head and can't get it out?

Uma (wonder if that's her real name?)

So they're filming some movie in our office today through the weekend called Accidental Husband, or something?

But sweet sweet Uma Thurman's gonna be coming in tomorrow, not sure if she's playing an ad person or something?

Anyway, i hear she has a thing for planners...

Got a case of the Mondays?

yea, me neither.

"milton....what's happening?"