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before he cheats
Rob Little's Version of Carrie Underwood's -Before He Cheats
the carrie underwood single "before he cheats" got 4mil views on youtube..
Joe - Before I Cheat (Carrie Underwood Cover)
the carrie underwood single "before he cheats" got 4mil views on youtube..
Joe - Before I Cheat (Carrie Underwood Cover)
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always be closing
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OLPC Jabber Server for D.C. area now available
At the last meeting on Saturday, April 26th, the availability of a Jabber server for the OLPC Learning Club D.C. was announced
To setup your XO, open the terminal activity and type:
sugar-control-panel -s jabber dc.olpc.obscure.org
Restart Sugar/X (ctrl-alt-erase) and you will connect to the Jabber server.
You will then see other OLPC Learning Club D.C. users who are online in the Neighborhood View.
You can read more about this on the wiki page:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Learning_Club_D.C./Jabber_Server
To setup your XO, open the terminal activity and type:
sugar-control-panel -s jabber dc.olpc.obscure.org
Restart Sugar/X (ctrl-alt-erase) and you will connect to the Jabber server.
You will then see other OLPC Learning Club D.C. users who are online in the Neighborhood View.
You can read more about this on the wiki page:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Learning_Club_D.C./Jabber_Server
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white house correspondents dinner
Leslie will be sitting at the head table of the white house correspondents dinner at the washington Hilton.
Leslie and her boss Howard Mortman will be live twittering the event also...
"All Saturday night long, live from the fabulous and well-appointed Washington Hilton International Ballroom.
On this special WHCA Dinner Twitter channel: https://twitter.com/Leslieann44
We’ll bring you all the Passover action: live interviews with B and C level celebrities and guests, fried food reviews, silly wardrobe reviews, pre and post party observations, expected wait in bathroom lines. And so on. Twitter Snark like you’ve never seen.
Stay tuned. You won’t want to miss a moment of our Tweets.
We begin broadcasting at 5:30 p.m. Saturday — live from the lower level entrance of the Washington Hilton.
Remember: what you don’t know immediately about the White House Correspondents Dinner Association might kill you."
-----do you remember in 2006 when Steven Colbert did this hilarious skit in front of Bush!
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ZOO YORK Guru Challenge
Welcome to the ZOO YORK "Spread the Word" contest. Post your video response to show us how you get yourself out there. Play it cool, don't disrespect, and you might find your video blowing up on YouTube in a New York minute.
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Matt Biddulph, CTO of Dopplr
Matt Biddulph, CTO of Dopplr - the social network for frequent travellers
In this presentation, Matt Biddulph, CTO at Dopplr discusses how they worked with Facebook and also JavaScript (using JQuery) to create the social widgets and plug-ins that are essential to Dopplr’s make-up.
Matt also spoke about other critical stages in the development of Dopplr - including how they used the internet as a platform, and how they deal with user identities.
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Dr. Strangelove Trailer
*the Pablo Ferro trailer for Kubrick's masterpiece: Dr. Strangelove
[below excerpt from typotheque.com]
"After seeing Ferro's commercials, Kubrick hired him to direct the advertising trailers and teasers for Dr. Strangelove and convinced him to resettle in London (Kubrick's base of operations until he died there in March 1999). Ferro was inclined to be peripatetic anyway, and ever anxious to bypass already completed challenges he agreed to pull up stakes on the chance that he would get to direct a few British TV commercials, which he did.
The black and white spot that Ferro designed for Dr. Strangelove employed his quick-cut technique - using as many as 125 separate images in a minute - to convey both the dark humor and the political immediacy of the film. At something akin to stroboscopic speed words and images flew across the screen to the accompaniment of loud sound effects and snippets of ironic dialog.
At a time when the bomb loomed so large in the US public's fears (remember Barry Goldwater ran for President promising to nuke China), and the polarization of left and right - east and west - was at its zenith, Ferro's commercial was not only the boldest and most hypnotic graphic on TV, it was a sly subversive statement.
Dr. Strangelove was key to Ferro's eventual shift from TV to film. And working with Kubrick was the best possible introduction to the movie industry since this relationship bypassed the stultifying Hollywood bureaucracy. Ferro was free to generate ideas and Kubrick was self-confident enough to accept (and sometimes refine) them."
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Facebook launches real time chat
I noticed that the bottom bar of the browser now has a chat client.
Labels: facebook, social media, social networking
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Raekwon
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what happened to the eminem we all grew to love?
Eminem - Lose Yourself
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Eminem - Cleaning Out My Closet
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Viewfinder
Viewfinder is an interesting technology that wants to bring photos to a software like Google Earth and display them as part of the satellite imagery.
"Geotagged photos, geographically indexed on a world map, either manually or via GPS, are an increasingly popular phenomenon. However, current implementations treat maps, and particularly 3D models, in fundamentally different modalities than photographs. The result is that photos tend to hover like playing cards, seemingly suspended over the world, remaining 2D objects in a 3D environment, and negating the transformative experience that we think should occur when combining images and a 3D world. (...) It's possible to place a photo in a 3D model in such a way that it appears seamlessly aligned with the model."
Google has already bought Panoramio, a Spanish photo sharing site that selected around 3 million geotagged photos to be added in a Google Earth layer. In October last year, Flickr had more than 42 million geotagged photos. All these photos could be used to compose a more accurate representation of the world. Combining this with projects such as Microsoft's PhotoSynth should result in new exciting ways to explore the world.
{ via BoingBoing }
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Bill Gates Unplugged
Carnegie Mellon was the final stop on Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates' recent tour of several nationally recognized universities.really It has a really funny intro with Jay-Z!
Labels: Bill Gates, jayz, microsoft
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Each day is a lifetime
You may have already heard about the remarkable Dr. Randy Pausch and his "Last Lecture" presentation. Randy, a professor at the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University in the USA, was diagnosed with terminal cancer of the pancreas in the summer of 2006. In August of 2007, Randy was told by the doctors that he had 3-6 months of healthy living left. A month after Randy was given just 3-6 months to live, he delivered an inspiring presentation at his university, a presentation that has touched millions of people around the world. His presentation is a remarkable contribution.
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videos
I cant get enough videos.. im thinking about starting an entire blog/site devoted to my video picks.. thoughts? I just noticed that 90% of my posts are video centric... what can I say.. I love videos - youtube, vimeo and now flickr.
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Graffiti Research Lab
Reporting live from nowherre: Graffiti Research Lab: the Complete First Season (coming soon to a torrent near you) screened yesterday and set a new Sundance record for the most copyright violations per minute.
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passing the laser beam
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people love holding things: trading cards edition
I am gonna buy a couple packs of these on ebay. I want to do a promotion like this but for social media people. Coming soon Social Media cards!
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update:
I found a sealed case for 4$! - LINK
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A Cursive Memory - Everything
really innovative music video, they are shooting the video in LA while celebreties are being photographed.. so like paris hilton walks into a club, and they film her and pan to the singers singing the song.. smart.
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making things not suck: on planes
When will people finally realize that if you make the video good, people might pay attention.. and buy more stuff!
SkyWest Airlines Inflight Quiz Show
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GOOG announces Google App Engine
arrington describes: "Google App Engine is designed for developers who want to run their entire application stack, soup to nuts, on Google resources. Amazon, by contrast, offers more of an a la carte offering with which developers can pick and choose what resources they want to use."
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JESS3 2.0
I am so excited to share with the world that JESS3 has its first 2 employees. I am so blessed to have Zvi Band and James Callahan join the JESS3 family!
Zvi is the CTO here at JESS3, he is also my right hand man. Zvi has a host of skills but most recently he has been working on Facebook App projects.
James is going to be working from Richmond where he lives with his lovely wife, and come up to DC for meetings when needed. James will have the title of Art Director and will be doing alot of drawing and concept sketching.
I want to give a shout out to the rest of the JESS3 team. Becca Baker has been killing it as my administrative ninja. She has proven to be invaluable in a variety of capacities including video production. Leslie has been doing an incredible job of leading this group of trouble makers and keeping me inline. She has also provided essential new business leads as well as managing everything behind closed doors. Love her.
more updates to follow.
Zvi is the CTO here at JESS3, he is also my right hand man. Zvi has a host of skills but most recently he has been working on Facebook App projects.
James is going to be working from Richmond where he lives with his lovely wife, and come up to DC for meetings when needed. James will have the title of Art Director and will be doing alot of drawing and concept sketching.
I want to give a shout out to the rest of the JESS3 team. Becca Baker has been killing it as my administrative ninja. She has proven to be invaluable in a variety of capacities including video production. Leslie has been doing an incredible job of leading this group of trouble makers and keeping me inline. She has also provided essential new business leads as well as managing everything behind closed doors. Love her.
more updates to follow.
Labels: beccabaker, jess3, lesliebradshaw, zviband
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Green Apple Festival concert - April 20
Earthday concert on the washington dc mall. starts at noon
check this link for more info greenapplemusicfestival.com
Free Live Bands!
- The Roots & Friends
- Gov't Mule
- Toots & The Maytals
- Thievery Corporation (DJ Set)
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The Meth Minute cartoon series
this web series is really funny.
Episode 21 of "The Meth Minute" cartoon series is an attempt at taking the children's entertainment industry by storm with a slew of new kid-show ideas. As it turns out, our kid-show ideas are likely to confuse children, which makes them even more amusing to grown-ups! Featuring special guest-star Indy Mogul's Erik Beck as Gary the Puppet.
"Bob Meets The Beatles" is Episode 22 of The Meth Minute cartoon series. This one takes us back in time to a milestone moment in rock history: the day Bob Dylan first smoked up the Beatles. It got weird in that room. Directed by Dan Meth.
Episode 21 of "The Meth Minute" cartoon series is an attempt at taking the children's entertainment industry by storm with a slew of new kid-show ideas. As it turns out, our kid-show ideas are likely to confuse children, which makes them even more amusing to grown-ups! Featuring special guest-star Indy Mogul's Erik Beck as Gary the Puppet.
"Bob Meets The Beatles" is Episode 22 of The Meth Minute cartoon series. This one takes us back in time to a milestone moment in rock history: the day Bob Dylan first smoked up the Beatles. It got weird in that room. Directed by Dan Meth.
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quoting Alexander Supertramp
This is the moniker that troubled adventurer Chris Johnson McCandless (actual photo) gave to himself after he turned his back on his family and walked off Into the Wild.McCandless lived by the words, "If you want something in life, reach out and grab it". Unfortunately one of the consequences of living life like this is that people can get hurt.
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