Archive for November, 2005
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
Le Parkour Strikes Again
Check out this really amazing video of what looks to be an amateur Le Parkour team from Russia. Other Le Parkour resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour http://www.parkour.com/ http://perso.wanadoo.fr/parkour/parkourenglish/ http://www.urbanfreeflow.com/
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
Wiki Company Etymology, Part II
In a post I made yesterday, I noted that Wiki had a pretty interesting company etymology page, which shows the origin of such company names like Adidas, eBay, etc. Well, given that Wiki is a public encyclopedia, I thought why not post the origins of the two companies I am currently affiliated with (and helped [...]
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Monday, November 28th, 2005
Company Name Etymology
Ever wanted to know the origin of company names like eBay, Garmin, or Adidas? Wiki has a page with company name origins on over 200 well-known and lesser known companies.
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Monday, November 28th, 2005
Stanford Commencement Address by Steve Jobs
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005 at Stanford University. This is among the best commencement addresses I’ve ever read. He gives 3 excellent stories and 3 excellent takeaways at the end. I was tempted to summarize [...]
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Sunday, November 27th, 2005
This is Clooney’s Year
Between the turkey and the stuffing I managed to catch two movies this weekend that come out of Section 8, a production company started by George Clooney. They were Good Night, and Good Luck, and Syriana. If you want to be intellectually entertained this holiday season, I could not recommend them more highly. In particular, [...]
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Sunday, November 27th, 2005
Keep It Simple and Content Will Be King
I came across this great article…err…blog over the weekend while I was reading another blog from Jonathan Schwartz, President and COO of Sun Microsystems. It’s a K.I.S.S. piece by Adam Bosworth (formerly of BEA, now of Google…I think). Here are a couple of highlights:
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Monday, November 21st, 2005
Useful Site of the Week
Goes to YouSendIt.com. This nifty site allows you to email files to others up to 1GB in size. How do they do it? First, rather than sending gargantuan emails through corporate email systems, they will upload the file to a secure server location. You then send an email to whomever, and in that email there [...]
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Friday, November 18th, 2005
Brazilian Girls
Just picked up their self-titled album. Terrific multi-lingual multi-toned music (as they call it, “melting pop”)…highly recommended. You can find more information about them here: Brazilian Girls Official Site NPR Interview I hope to see them if/when they come back to Nublu for a set.
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
Insert Flash Into PowerPoint
If you’re in the interactive marketing industry, chances are you been asked or have watched other people struggle with embedding Flash in PPT. Well struggle no more! Check out the following article and links from InDesize to solves these woes.
