May 31st, 2007 by mdThis is truly hilarious…a cadet at the Air Force Academy caught dancing in his room alone. He didn’t know that his roommate had rigged up a video camera to catch it all for us to see. Most of the versions of this have been pulled down from YouTube for copyright infringement (I guess because the […]
May 29th, 2007 by mdThere was a hilarious sidebar in today’s NYT that recounted a focus group exercise conducted in Md — here’s the scoop…
From the New York Times, May 29, 2007:
Imagine that the top presidential candidates are all at an airport trying to get on a flight. There is one seat left on the plane and there are […]
May 29th, 2007 by mdMy good friend and former colleague Jeff Jordan just was named CEO of OpenTable, the online reservation agent for dining out. This is a huge coup for OpenTable and the beginning of a great new adventure for Jeff. I was very lucky to work with Jeff both at Disney back in the mid-1990s and then […]
May 28th, 2007 by mdThere is a really sobering piece in today’s NYT (“As Allies Turn Foe, Disillusionment Rises in Some GI’s” - Michael Kamber, pA1.) on the rising disillusionment among GI’s who’ve discovered that Iraqi army soldiers — who’ve been receiving weapons and training from the US — are among the insurgent forces attacking US forces and civilians […]
May 25th, 2007 by mdI don’t know why feral pigs are so interesting. To me, the pictures of them lying next to their killers are oddly compelling. I wrote about Hogzilla a while back and saw this AP story on Drudgereport today (one of the best sites on earth.) Truly a shocking story and image. I can’t wait for […]
May 23rd, 2007 by mdRecently we had a good discussion of an interesting topic in Creating Infectious Action — a course I co-teach at Stanford. The conversation was about widgets and the unbundling of cool content from the url where it originated. Widgets — small, portable units that are essentially mini-windows onto an application or pieces of content — […]
May 23rd, 2007 by mdI am not sure if I feel proud, sad, nervous, or what. I just hope they don’t take it out on the nice ladies in the dumpling factory that I wrote about.
May 19th, 2007 by mdWhen I was in Hawaii, I discovered some great musicians. Check out Rusted Root, and Israel Kamakawiwo’ole. I especially like Hawai’i 78 by Israel K. and Send Me on My Way covered by Rusted Root.
I also have been overplaying Joni Mitchell’s version of Both Sides Now, from Dreamland. Thanks, Todd for turning me onto that […]
May 19th, 2007 by mdMy colleagues Bob, Perry, and I went for a week to the Higher College of Technology in UAE to teach a short seminar on Innovation and Product Design to a group of students and executives. It was a long, but really fun trip. The students were about 80% nationals, the remainder from elsewhere in the […]
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