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• Tuesday, February 28, 2006

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     1. {03012006}
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     1. Steve's Outfit

     2. This is the uniform for aspiring billionaires, cult leaders, and reality distorters everywhere?

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• Sunday, February 26, 2006

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     2. {10:25:02 AM}

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     1. They did it at the All Star game and no one noticed!

        (Blog Maverick)

     2. Mark Cuban: "[W]e added microphones to the floor so the entire arena could hear the sneakers squeaking on the court. We turned up the mics on the rim, so the arena could hear the grunts and guys talking on the defensive side. We brought in the Maniaacs to clap and cheer and encourage the fans to get involved. It didnt work. The energy wasnt there. We got far more complaints than compliments. So we shelved the experiment. We went back to music, prompting and energy and the feedback improved considerably."
        Interesting experiment in crowd manipulation by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. Clearly, the spectacle aspect of a live sporting event trumps even the game itself... for the fans, though not the media. This probably explains why the people who complain most about steroids, bad officiating, possible game-fixing, and the like are reporters, and not fans. I honestly believe that the majority of fans don't care. They come for a show, and they watch on TV for a show. I've maintained for a while now, the actual fan experience of an NBA, NFL, or MLB game is fundamentally no different than that of pro wrestling, or ballet for that matter. The fans are there to be entertained. I don't think they care that much about performers' backstories. We live in a jaded world, so people need to be dazzled, not bored.

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• Thursday, February 23, 2006

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     1. Colony Sportswear

     2. For the NBA enthusiast, Colony Sportswear has developed an entirely new line of menswear we call 52nd.
        What's the line from Disney's Dumbo, sung by the crows: I've seen a horse fly. I've seen a dragon fly. I've seen a house fly. But I done seen about everything when I seen an elephant fly!"? Well, in my book dress clothing festooned with NBA logos is my idea of elephants flying. Can someone please make it stop. I don't care how well-made the clothing might actually be. This is about taste. But then again, maybe we live in a tasteless society, and I just didn't get that memo.

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• Tuesday, February 21, 2006

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     2. {07:55:25 PM}

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     1. Building a business based on copyright infringement

        (Jason Calcanis blog)

     2. Flickr is a community for people who create content, YouTube feels like a community build off people stealing content.
        A-ha! Isn't this the essential riddle, and criticism of the blogosphere, and, essentially, this digital age we live in? That is, no one -- not even this writer -- actually creates new content. They just remix or mash-up someone else's material and call it new. But what can you do, in a world where there truly is nothing new under the sun, and where there aren't audiences sophisticated enough to really appreciate or seek out geniune originality? In this kind of environment, the value of a copyright must be redefined.

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• Tuesday, February 14, 2006

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     1. {02142006}
     2. {08:53:07 PM}

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     1. The 'Lost 1984' Mac Clips

        (Mac Essentials)

     2. Here's a collection of videos built around the original Macintosh 1984 commercial, clips like the commercial itself, tape of a young-looking, bow-tie-clad Steve Jobs speaking to shareholders about changing the world, and a multimedia preso of the developer team building that very first Mac. Freaks and geek, for real, but this ad campaign was the holy grail of Super Bowl, and, well, television advertising, the Mac itself is perhaps sine qua non of brand building where the promise actually lived up to the delivery.
        
        b/w: growabrain.com

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• Monday, February 13, 2006

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     1. Bottled water, a natural resource taxing the world's ecosystem

        (PhysOrg.com)

     2. "Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing, producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy," according to Emily Arnold, author of the study published by the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington-based environmental group. Although in the industrial world bottled water is often no healthier than tap water, it can end up costing 10,000 times more...the rapid growth in the industry has also ironically led to water shortages in some areas, including India where bottling of Dasani water and other drinks by the Coca-Cola company has caused shortages in more than 50 villages.
        Today, we buy water...at mega-multiples of its natural price, since this life-giving substance, of which our bodies our mostly composed, should actually be free. The waters of the world's rivers, streams, lakes, rains...belong to everyone. Right? Tomorrow, we'll probably have to pay for our air. For now, though, have an Evian or a Coke and a smile, muhf*cka!
        
        b/w: digg.com

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     2. {11:15:14 AM}

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     1. In which I attend the Grammy Awards

        (johnaugust.com)

     2. August: "To begin with, Music's Biggest Night is actually music's longest afternoon. They give out awards in 108 categories. Of those, only 11 are televised. The other 97 are passed out during the pre-telecast ceremony, which begins at 1:30 p.m. We left the house at noon to get there in time."
        Screenwriter John August, whose credits include Big Fish and one of my campy-town lady favorites, Charlie's Angels, provides a real travelogue of what happens at the Grammies. It must be fun watching celebrities trip over power cables taped to the floor. Da camptown ladies sing dis song, doo-dar, doo-dar...

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• Saturday, February 11, 2006

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     1. Implicit Association Tests

     2. Explore your own biases.

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• Wednesday, February 08, 2006

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     1. Grammy Awards

        (GRAMMY.com)

     2. Maybe it's just me, but live music on television (even in HD) isn't the same as being there. The show was so-so. It was great, however to see both Dave Chappelle, and later, Sly Stone, who played a few bars while thirty or so top pop performers backed him up...and then left three minutes before his own tribute medley was finish. Dude must been bl*nted!

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     1. {02082006}
     2. {10:59:41 PM}

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     1. Songbird

        (Boing Boing)

     2. The "open source iTunes killer," flies today: instead of connecting to one locked store full of DRMmed goods, it can connect to any and all available music (and video) on the internet.
        Definitely worth a look. The presence of a viable open-source alternative in any category is probably a good thing, since the market leaders have to keep innovating their pay product, or lose customers.

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• Saturday, February 04, 2006

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     1. {02042006}
     2. {09:23:12 AM}

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     1. SuperBowlAds.us

     2. Banned ads from Super Bowl Sundays past.

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