about How to get del.icio.us links posted on your WordPress blog everyday:

How to get del.icio.us links posted on your WordPress blog everyday:

1. Sign up or Login to your del.icio.us account
2. Start bookmarking and tagging favorite web pages. I recommend using the “post to del.icio.us” bookmarklet on this page by dragging that bookmarklet directly onto your bookmark toolbar. The “post to del.icio.us” button allows you to post your current page to del.icio.us, and allows you to enter tags and a brief description of the link.
3. In del.icio.us, click Settings and look under Blogging, then click on the link that says “daily blog posting”
4. Click “add a new thingy” and some obscure form appears
5. Enter the following into the form, and enter your relevant details in the [boxes]
   job_name : WordPress Daily Post (or any title you want)
   out_name : [Your WordPress Username]
   out_pass : [Your WordPress Password]
   out_url : http://[Your Blog URL]/xmlrpc.php
   out_time : 4 (the GMT that you want the post to happen. 0 = 8pm EST)
   out_blog_id : 1 (might not matter to WordPress)
   out_cat_id : 1 (Regardless, it’ll probably post to the default WordPress category)
6. Hit “Submit Query” and you’re done!

about How to Hire the Next Michael Jordan

If you want to recruit superstars -- the best of the best -- then you have to find them differently, evaluate them differently, and offer them jobs differently. Here's a short course from John Sullivan, the Michael Jordan of hiring.

ARTICLE LINK

about MC Rove

about a goldfish tank…in the deep fryer.

This was unexpected, but is just waiting for a commercial application. You have to watch the video to believe it, but this restaurant** in Japan has a goldfish tank…in the deep fryer.

Because oil floats on water, despite the massive heat (163 degrees Celsius) the goldfish simply stay away from the surface and all is well. They eat the crumbs of croquettes and other fried foods that fall to the bottom, and can live in there for 5-10 years** as they happily clean away, ignorant to the fact that certain death awaits any potential escapees.

This one is hidden away back in the kitchen where customers can’t even see it, but it could easily be made for display near the dining area for everyone to see. No word on whether they turn cannibal and devour their battered bretheren when they’re chucked in along with some potatoes.

**Update** Just a little clarification on this. This fryer (from the WaterFryer company) is specially designed to allow the water inside without blowing up (sugei!). The location is not clear, however. As one commenter noted somewhere, it took the guy 10 years to create it. As for how long the fish can live in there, I was lazy in my translation and made a mistake. I suppose they could live in there anywhere from ten years to 10 seconds, depending on how foolish they are.

By Michael Keferl

Via The Best of Toretama

about chicken police

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about Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones

Photographer Bill Atkinson reveals the wondrous textures within the semi-precious stones. (Check out more examples from his recent book "Within the Stone"). Mr. Atkinson was one of the original developers of the Macintosh computer, responsible for Finder, QuickDraw, and HyperCard, among others. He is now an amazing nature photographer who is also working on next-generation printing technologies.

















































"Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" (Samuel R. Delaney)

about red light green light

Valkieser Capital Images made a great one for Snickers.
Then see how they made it.

about The Lions Roar

Very cool video for Hush Sound’s song - The Lions Roar.

about Nick Delaney

Nick Delaney cool site, cool work.

about flexible love

Don’t know how comfortable it’d be but I do know that I want one!
Link.

about Good ideas being drowned out by a flood of bad ones.

Consumer engagement may be the marketing mantra of our time, but Laurent Florès sees a fundamental problem: Good ideas can be drowned out by a flood of bad ones.

Consumer panels, both online and live, have become popular ways for companies to float and road-test new ideas. Online panels are often run like beauty pageants, where consumers vote for ideas that a company is considering. This shows the relative popularity among a limited set of ideas; but what if none of the ideas put forward by the marketing department are very good? (INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE)

about nero cd burning software

nero 7 ultra edition serial Number
1C82-0000-19E5-MAAX-4006-8183-8546


i searched for this, and in 5min I found this.. it works.. you can download the nero 30day trial and then use this..

about john at wombat

my fearless leader

about viral advertising in tokyo for a yahoo killer

in Japan

Goo genius!

about viral keys

Nissan’s latest marketing stunt should stir some interest, or at least some confusion. The company will intentionally “lose” 200,000 sets of keys in bars, concert halls, and other public facilities in order to promote the Altima’s keyless ignition system. The tag attached to the keys states: “If found, please do not return. My Next Generation Nissan Altima has Intelligent Key with push-button ignition, and I no longer need these.” The campaign was created by True Agency in Los Angeles, for a reported sum of only $100,000.

about Hunter S. Thompson interviewing Keith Richards

about rushing the stage

the idea is that a crowd of bloggers can instigate a rush of customers to the itunes store wherein rising the status of the selected independent artist. We would like to believe that the motives of selection are fair. It is a cool idea, always fun to see authentic movements.

about mugen

MUGEN is a piece of software which is treasured by a significant part of the gaming community. This 2D gaming engine created in 1999 allows you to create your own levels, characters and game objects thanks to a set of interpreted text files, graphics and sound compilations. It has spawned a multitude of fighting games and original characters and even a number of wildly surrealist mashups just like this invasion of Marios Bros country by Godzilla:

about What are you doing with Twitter?

I recently signed up for Twitter, a new service alot like dodgeball. And no not the dodgeball from gymclass. Twitter is a global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing?

If you haven’t tried it yet, Twitter is a service that allows you to post one-line messages about what you’re currently doing—via the web interface, IM, or textmessage. You can limit who sees the messages to people you’ve added to your buddy list, or you can make the messages public. It serves as a mini blog with nano messages. Twitter merges a number of interesting trends in social software usage—personal blogging, lightweight presence indicators, and IM status messages, public and private. It reminds me of my old textamerica account, in which I would post images from my cell phone to the account, which would then show up on my homepage. It also sounds alot like the feeling I got when I realized I could post to my blog or flickr from my cellphone. This hysteria around twitter reminds me of the early days of blogger. But it sounds alot like the text messages on my cinguar cellphone from myspace and facebook.. I dont know if I need a whole new service to do what the facebook feed does for me and my friends now.. "Friends" still isn't the right word.

Like a good party, if your friends are not on Twitter or you arent particularly voyeuristic.., I can't imagine it would be that interesting. The sad reality is there can be only one true answer to the question: "I'm typing to tell twitter what I'm doing right now..." Twitter seems to work equally well for busy people and not-busy people. It allows folks with little time to keep up with what their friends are up to without having to email and IM with them all day.

Twitterholic tracks the top 100 Twitter users in terms of followers. This does seem like a grade school popularity contest. And in a way it is.. Scoble is at the top of the list.. to be expected, we all know he has an open door policy about adding the masses to his friends list.

twittervision .a world tour of recent Twitter messages. Just sit back and watch the updates come in one at a time, displayed on a world map.

There is a wordpress widget also.

if you want to twitter me, check http://twitter.com/jessesaves

about heavenly pleasure

Japan's ever-inventive sex industry's latest innovation is an adaptation of the facial -- a mud pack for the penis, according to Spa! (3/27).

Authorities have in recent years taken a harder line on the flesh trade, prompting operators to come up with up an increasing variety of services aimed at providing pleasure but circumventing the long arm of the law.

The mud pack for the penis, which follows a wine bath for the gonads, is part of an Italian-style esthetic treatment offered by a Tokyo-based service called The Aromani.

"A whole lot of operations similar to ours sprung up in a short time and Wine bath for the nads, mud pack for the sack pledges heavenly pleasurewe needed to provide a service nobody else was offering and this was it," The Aromani's boss tells Spa! "Our sales point is that we also offer variations, including having the service performed by multiple workers (groups of two or three women), or you can have it performed by a shy woman or another who'll do it while talking dirty."

The Aromani's boss says the service began with the motto of "providing health and beauty to the willy and anus."

The service involves using a hotel sink or face-washing basin and filling it with warm water and wine. This is aimed at improving the circulation. Instead of inserting the face, however, the client places their bottom in the bowl, allowing the penis and anus to be soaked in the suds of their sommelier.

Spa! notes that the washing is performed by at least one woman, who The Aromani insists must be in her 20s or 30s at the oldest.

Once the basic basin service has finished, the genitals are swathed in a chunk of mud supposed to cleanse the skin. Once they are completely covered, the woman (or women) providing the service, then show their handiwork, so to speak, until the client reaches climax, or what Spa! calls the "ascent to Heaven." (By Ryann Connell)

about Ricky Gervais vs Africa PSA

More total genius from Ricky Gervais. This mock PSA is from Friday’s Comic Relief 2007 in the U.K. As Stephen Merchant says, “The real money is in adverts!”

about Amy Winehouse

Rehab and Back To Black and He Can Only Hold Her
Taken from the album Back To Black on Interscope (2006)

about Artomatic 2007

Artomatic is back. I showed my work 2 years ago in artomatic. It was the first time I had ever printed my work, and the event has a special place in my heart. The space is in rosslyn this year, I already signed up. So should you! http://www.artomatic.org/ I setup the facebook group, so add me there if you are on facebook.

about The McCain Show

John McCain launches an Internet-based "reality show." on youtube

The Los Angeles Times had a great piece about the explostion of online video in politics. The articles looks both at how both campaigns and activists groups are using viral video to try to impact the 2008 Presidential election.

The whole piece is worth reading, but I found this tidbit about the McCain campaign particularly interesting:

McCain is planning his own Web version of reality TV. He has hired a videographer to record behind-the-scenes campaign moments of the senator in relaxed settings.

"What the campaign can do in a Web video is show a more personal side of the candidate," said Spencer Whelan, who works on McCain's online communications team.

Straight Talk Express in Manchester and Concord, NH

about science fun!

The Hurricane Balls


NASA vacuum experiments with water and air


Amazing physics


anti-gravity (magnetic toy)


Science fun (Turn sound off)

about free vector downloads from hydro74

http://www.hydro74.com/Hydro74_Free3.zip
http://www.hydro74.com/Hydro74_Vector3.zip
http://www.hydro74.com/Hydro74vector2.zip
http://www.hydro74.com/Hydro74_Skull.zip

about the photo of the day

Flickr user philliefan_99 is a photographer after my own heart with this image of the crescent moon and Venus in the evening sky.

about The Raconteurs "Steady, As She Goes"

about Apple: America's best retailer

Fortune: ‘Why Apple Is the Best Retailer in America’

Jerry Useem in Fortune:

“One of the best pieces of advice Mickey ever gave us was to go rent a warehouse and build a prototype of a store, and not, you know, just design it, go build 20 of them, then discover it didn’t work,” says Jobs. In other words, design it as you would a product.

This is a terrific article, with a lot of insight into just how much thought went into these store designs. According to Jobs, they abandoned their first store mockup because it was organized by product, and they realized it would be better to organize it by activity. The Genius Bars are patterned after hotel concierge desks; they got the idea after asking 18 people what their best ever customer experience was, and 16 of them said it was in a hotel.

about buying a church

This "12th century chapel and priory," located "between Poitiers and Limoges in the Vienne region of France," is for sale.

The property "includes cellars, seven bedrooms, eight main reception rooms (!), a small library, bathrooms, kitchen, double garage and further attics capable of conversion. The chapel’s porch is registered as a Historic Monument. It has central heating and a security system. The grounds extend to some 3000 sq m and is planted with a range of trees etc."

about super offices

I want to build a super studio.. with the most cutting edge technology and all that...


Barco, a Belgian company which specializes in designing and developing solutions for large-screen visualization. A leader in professional markets, they have equipped the control rooms of NASA, traffic management centers, national power grids, broadcast studios, military combat rooms, and the FIFA World Cup international media center.

They even supplied the LED technology for Millennium Park's Crown Fountain.


(The Athens Water Supply and Sewerage Company)


(Kabel Deutschland)


(CCTV Control Room, Camden County Council, UK)


(National Grid, UK)

So from multiple case studies found on their website, it becomes easier to visualize the control room of our very own Super-office. Wall-to-wall cinematics, endless streams of numbers, thousands of hours of hydrological voyeurism saved for the archives or for later viewing and efficiency analysis.


(Florida Department of Transportation Distric 4)


(TV Master Control Room, Reuters)


(COBB County Electric, Georgia, USA)


(JMO Brno, Czech Republic)


(MERO Middle European Raw Oil, Czech Republic)

about Traffic Tricks & Drudge's Spin

Valleywag reports that while the "Drudge Report may be the most successful independent news site on the web... (more than 1.2m unique visitors from the US in February, according to Comscore)... devotees may not check the site quite as often as Matt Drudge would claim."

How'd Drudge do it? VW: " A site's 'meta refresh' setting is a web page's meta tag used to specify a time-interval after which a web browser will automatically refresh the page. Most sites leave it to readers to call for the latest version of a page; but popular news sites often assume that visitors will leave their pages open, and ensure the page is reloaded so that the latest headlines show. Nothing wrong with that -- except that the Drudge Report is automatically refreshed way more often than the frequency of new stories would justify. At 20 times an hour, Drudge is twice as aggressive in his use of this tactic as the next news site we checked."

Hmmm. Readers are taking note. It is a popular site, but, as loucabron notes: "These numbers smell."

posted by: Leslie

about sucka free guatemala

(Photograph from Reuters/STR New, illustration by Paul Hannan/National Geographic Digital Media)

According to National Geographic News, “the reportedly 330-foot-deep (100-meter-deep) sinkhole swallowed about a dozen homes and is so far blamed in the deaths of three people—two teenagers, found floating in torrent of sewage, and their father, who was pulled from the chasm.”

about Bikini Girls with Machine Guns

about the future generation of Japanese youth

about cassetteplaya

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about firework drawings

These large works on paper are made by exploding and containing live fireworks, resulting in bursts of saturated color that are overlaped and collaged into abstract compositions. By Rosemarie Fiore, born in New York State and lives and works in New York City.

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about letting them eat cake

I really enjoyed this film.... It was visually stunning.. and I thought quite well acted..

about the simpsons movie trailer..

I waited 18 years for this..

about gates vs jobs

Here’s a rare public appearance of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates together at the recent D: All Things Digital conference. (with Walt Mossberg and Mitch Kapor)

about looking at this chart and say the color, not the word

Oldie but goodie

about the best of the best

Precious Images is an Oscar-winning short film by Chuck Workman, featuring 500 movie clips in seven minutes.

about chinese math

One of the classic mistakes in business is the optimistic use of "Chinese math":

An entrepreneur considers a potentially giant market and says, "Think of how much money we'll make if we can sell our widgets to just two percent of the population!"

Seth Godin explains why that doesn't work.

about quote of the day

Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film. They advertise memories.

- Theodore Levitt

about a second life killer from sony

Good news for the PlayStation camp, full details of Sony's PlayStation Home have been revealed, and it ain't no slacker. Alongside those avatars and achievements we heard about earlier, the "service" seems to be a new-gen Second Life killer, with public hangouts, personal apartments (to show off those fancy prizes you've been racking up in recent frag fests) and voice chat. The seeming-MMO even includes casual games such as pool, bowling and arcade machines embedded into the world, but at any time you can invite a fellow resident to join in on any PlayStation Network-capable game. As for user-generated content, PS Home allows you to hang your own pictures on your apartment walls and share videos with friends. You can of course dress up your avatar in assorted virtual clothings -- for a price -- all while enjoying "dynamic advertising" of some sort. A large scale beta goes live in April, with the full product to be launched this fall.

about keeping up with the joneses

"Peter van Stolk, the 40-year-old founder of Jones Soda, was quick to learn the rules of the industry and then ignore them. Since he began selling his iconoclastic drinks out of ice chests in snowboarding shops and tattoo parlors in 1996, he's sold 187 million bottles. In explaining the runaway success of the brand, van Stolk is the first to admit, "The world doesn't need another soda." But what young cynical consumers apparently did need was a brand with which they could identify. Unlike the slick Madison Avenue spin of huge competitors, Jones Soda -- without any money for advertising -- created a cool under-the-radar appeal by urging fans to send in photographs to the website to use as bottle labels. The Seattle company now has over a million submissions and has used 4,372 of the photos."
-- Business Week

about do you remember the lacoste logo..?

Here's "an attempt to evaluate the actual power of brands by making Austrian people draw a total of twelve logos (nine international, three typically European) from memory, 25 people per brand."

about Town Changes Name In Exchange for Free Satellite TV

"Back in the 1950s, Hot Springs, N.M., was renamed Truth or Consequences, N.M., after a popular quiz show. During the dot-com boom of 2000, Halfway, Ore., agreed to become Half.com for a year.

This week, Clark, Texas, morphed into DISH in exchange for a decade of free satellite television from the DISH Network for the town's 55 homes. Residents in Santa, Idaho, meanwhile, are weighing the pros and cons of changing to Secretsanta.com, Idaho.

Across the nation, small communities are being courted by large corporations who say renaming a town provides a marketing buzz that can't be bought in television ads. Though some worry about corporate America's increasing influence in local government, many towns seem eager to accept."
-- ABC News


"An online poker site wasn't bluffing when it offered $100,000 to have its name stamped on a community. Officials at PokerShare.com are offering that sum if the western Kentucky hamlet of Sharer - which has no city council, no grocery and no post office - changes its name to PokerShare.com."
-- My Way

about Blackboard Networks Academia

Blackboard's new Scholar "social bookmarking" service lets Blackboard users save and classify bookmarks and searches; share resources with faculty, students, and administrators from other institutions; automatically update courses with dynamic content feeds; and enable student contributions to course collections.

The service is available to all users of the enterprise versions of the Blackboard Learning System, including Vista and CE licenses. Blackboard users can access the service right through BLS. It's also open to the public at http://www.scholar.com.

Read more.

about Makers of Sodas Try a New Pitch: They’re Healthy

Healthy soda?

That may strike some as an oxymoron. But for Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, it’s a marketing opportunity.

In coming months, both companies will introduce new carbonated drinks that are fortified with vitamins and minerals: Diet Coke Plus and Tava, which is PepsiCo’s new offering.

They will be promoted as “sparkling beverages.” The companies are not calling them soft drinks because people are turning away from traditional soda, which has been hurt in part by publicity about its link to obesity.

read the full nytimes article here

about starting a business

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

about Carone ads

Advertising Agency: Foot Cone Belding >> Agency Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina >> Art Director: Juan Donalisio >> Copywriter: Nicolas Gomez Cal >> Agency Website: www.fcb.com >> Headline: There are more interesting problems than the ones of any used car. Carone, guaranteed used cars.

about matches dont need to be boring

Blush, the German brand of Lingerie is back with another new innovation. After the innovative Blush Bag and the really cool Blush Signpost Teaser Campaign, this matchbox is sure to light up a party or two. Great work by BBDO in Berlin.

about LIFT07 conference animation

about ann coulter calls edwards a faggot at CPAC

whoa...

about Speed Painting

Time lapse speed painting in Photoshop. 3 hours of work, 5 minutes to watch it

about A conference about the challenges and opportunities of technology in our society

check out this link liftconference.com/videos for the rest



Lee Bryant is Director at Headshift. He presents about "Collective Intelligence inside the enterprise" at the LIFT07 conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on Thursday, February 8, 2007.