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about Sarah Palin Disney Trailer

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

An Alaskan hockey mom becomes Vice President in the wackiest family comedy of the year! Sound familiar

about T-Mobile G1

looks familiar...

about [The Wired Ones] Advice for People Building Brands

when peter asked me to do these videos I jumped at the opportunity. I think what he has done is great for the DC scene, and we need more people like him to get the ball rolling.




Episode #3 includes:

Peter Corbett, iStrategyLabs, (host)

Hooman Radfar, CEO, ClearSpring

Leslie Brandshaw, President, JESS3 and CM/PM at New Media Strategies

Nick O’Neill, Founder, Social Times

Mae Coughlan, Designer, Bates Creative Group

Jesse Thomas, CEO, JESS3

Matt Goddard, CEO, R2i

about Damn It Feels Good to be Banker

Bankers vs. Consultants.
http://www.leveragedsellout.com

about You want to be Captain croissant?

Overheard in New York

***

Mom pushing stroller: May I have some of your croissant?
Little girl in stroller: Yeah, but not daddy.
Mom: Oh, you don't want daddy to have any of your croissant?
Little girl: Yeah.
Mom: You want to control who gets to eat your croissant?
Little girl: Yeah.
Mom: You want control of your croissant?
Little girl: ...yeah.
Mom: You want croissant power?
Little girl: (silence)
Mom: You want to be Captain croissant?
Little girl: (silence)

--Park Slope

about Dream a little dream

This explains so much. I have a small tv on my desk, and have lots of computers, some of which I watch The Office episodes on itunes all the time.

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Jonah Lerher on daydreaming and the human brain's default network. Creativity, especially with regard to children, might be stifled by too little daydreaming and too much television.

After monitoring the daily schedule of the children for several months, Belton came to the conclusion that their lack of imagination was, at least in part, caused by the absence of "empty time," or periods without any activity or sensory stimulation. She noticed that as soon as these children got even a little bit bored, they simply turned on the television: the moving images kept their minds occupied. "It was a very automatic reaction," she says. "Television was what they did when they didn't know what else to do."

The problem with this habit, Belton says, is that it kept the kids from daydreaming. Because the children were rarely bored -- at least, when a television was nearby -- they never learned how to use their own imagination as a form of entertainment. "The capacity to daydream enables a person to fill empty time with an enjoyable activity that can be carried on anywhere," Belton says. "But that's a skill that requires real practice. Too many kids never get the practice."

But television isn't the default network that Lehrer is referring to:

Every time we slip effortlessly into a daydream, a distinct pattern of brain areas is activated, which is known as the default network. Studies show that this network is most engaged when people are performing tasks that require little conscious attention, such as routine driving on the highway or reading a tedious text. Although such mental trances are often seen as a sign of lethargy -- we are staring haplessly into space -- the cortex is actually very active during this default state, as numerous brain regions interact. Instead of responding to the outside world, the brain starts to contemplate its internal landscape. This is when new and creative connections are made between seemingly unrelated ideas.

Cheers to kotke for the linkage

about GOOD: Choose Your Vice

about Cool Kids - "Delivery Man"

about Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on SNL

check this image shabooty posted

about Social Ad Summit

Nick and I put on Social Ad Summit in NYC yesterday, and it was such a success. Nick did a great job of getting some really smart speakers, and the venue was amazing. The food was really well done.

about Online News Association - ONA08

I gave a workshop at the ONA conference in DC last week. It was great, leslie did one right after me, hers was on Twitter. Both went really well!

Scoble was walking around, he had done the keynote earlier in the day. My good friend Frank Gruber was on a panel too. Great crowd.

about Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

the guy who made this was at a panel at techcrunch50

good stuff

about Why every guy should buy their girlfriend Wii Fit.

check the LA Times story

about techcrunch50

im in SF for techcrunch50.





















Chris Saccas is my new role model.

about Leslie on C-SPAN

leslie has been on C-SPAN talking about the social media reactions to the conventions

about looking back

the last 6 months have been amazing.

about Rage Against the RNC

09.02.08 (Performs Acapella in Crowd)

h/t to Zvi




and the classic testify video

about soldiers of jah army

local arlington va group

about Google Chrome (BETA) for Windows

http://www.google.com/chrome/

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

no mac version. FAIL

about Backflip Darkslide

about super paint ball gun

Adam and Jamie, hosts of the known mythbusters show compared a CPU vs a GPU to explain parallel processing and the GPU drew an ACTUAL mona lisa drawing using paint balls in 80 milliseconds!

skipi to 70% into the video