GooglePhone's "Whisper Ads"
Never been a fan of @theOnion, but this is funny as hell!
p.s. Wait for the credits to roll, so you can savor the dig at Yahoo!
Darth Vader GPS. The Perils.
I hate TomTom's iPhone GPS app but gotta give it to them, they nailed this video introducing turn-by-turn directions from Star Wars characters.
:) Like.
LinkedIn at Bay to Breakers. 2 Wins! More Pics.
Really proud of Team LinkedIn, led by @kluo, who put together the longest centipede at Bay to Breakers yesterday. Kay's description of the event reads like a real-time twitter feed.
Armen Vartanian, another colleague of mine, led a team of elite athletes to win the Men's Elite Centipede division, coming within 10 seconds of beating the world record! So close. Yet so cool that they won.
Photos by Chris Gordon.
Rampaging Star's Cannonball Run (w/ pics)
The enormity of it all. Not sure if we still get how tiny we are in the midst of all this inter-stellar chaos and how much we are yet to learn.
Have a great week. Be Inspired!
We have a stellar cluster with thousands of times the Sun’s mass embedded in a nebula furiously cranking out newborn stars. A lot of them are near the physical upper limit of how big a star can get. The whole thing is only a couple of million years old, a fraction of the galaxy’s lifespan. One beefy star with 90 times the Sun’s mass got too close to some other stars, which summarily flung it out of the cluster at high speed, fast enough to cross the distance from the Earth to the Moon in an hour (it took Apollo three days). The star is barreling through the flotsam in that galaxy, its violent stellar wind carving out a bubble of gas that points right back to the scene of the crime, nearly 4 quadrillion kilometers and a million years behind it.
If San Francisco artists ran a Red Bull flugtag in 1975
Participants:
The whole race was a gift to the community. That kind of generosity really inspired me to be as generous with my work.
I wish different kinds of art were accepted that broadly.
Amen.
An Education by Errol Morris
Errol Morris gives my third favorite commencement speech ever, while explaining to the graduating class of UC-Berkeley’s School of Journalism, what journalists and artists find in common - the singular pursuit of truth.
In the process he makes the case that Jon Stewart makes on the Daily Show every day: that all journalism is “investigative journalism” and there’s no such thing as relativity of Truth.
Truth. It has become fashionable nowadays to speak of the subjectivity or the relativity of truth. I find such talk ridiculous at best. Let’s go back to Randall Dale Adams. He found himself within days of being executed in “Old Sparky,” the electric chair in Walls Unit, Huntsville Texas.
There is nothing post-modern about the electric chair. It takes a living human being and turns him into a piece of meat. Imagine you – you the young journalists of tomorrow – being strapped into an electric chair for a crime you didn’t commit. Would you take comfort from a witness telling you that it really doesn’t make any difference whether you are guilty or innocent? That there is no truth? “I think you’re guilty; you think you’re innocent. Can’t we work it all out?”
Well, the answer is: No. We can’t. There are facts. There is a world in which things happen and the journalist’s job is to figure out what those things are. Anything less, is giving up on the most important task around – separating truth from illusion, truth from fantasy, truth from wishful thinking.
Iron Man 3
Nice hat tip w/ the cameo in Iron Man 2.
Elon Musk makes no sense — and that's the reason I know him. When I was trying to bring the character of genius billionaire Tony Stark to the big screen in Iron Man, I had no idea how to make him seem real. Robert Downey Jr. said, "We need to sit down with Elon Musk."
Motivate yourself by developing work rituals
Barack Obama. Taking care of physical fitness and family are two important elements of President Obama’s daily ritual. He starts his day with a workout at 6:45, reads several newspapers, has breakfast with his family, and then starts his work day just before 9:00 in the morning. He may work as late as 10:00 some evenings, but always stops to have dinner with his family each day.
Great piece on how productive people throughout history developed rituals to motivate themselves to get work done. These rituals make it easier to fall into the routine of work faster every single day.
No. Coffee does not count.
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