The Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine
via michaelyingling.com What a hilarious idea for a search engine. And handy.
Social Media: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly …
… but mostly I want to talk about The Good. Yesterday I "interviewed" Andrew Fry for City Club's lunch program about social media. I thought Andrew talked about some great topics and his story-telling was really great. An all around great program. A lot of the topic was dedicated to the above questions: what's good, bad, and ugly, about social media. And that makes a lot of sense for a 45 minute presentation. But to me, the good waaayyy outweighs the bad. Since I didn't delve into it yesterday (and I shouldn't have, it was Andrew's program, I was just Read more…
You have died of dysentery
FORTY YEARS AND TEN iterations later, the Oregon Trail has sold over 65 million copies worldwide, becoming the most widely distributed educational game of all time. Market research done in 2006 found that almost 45 percent of parents with young children knew Oregon Trail, despite the fact that it largely disappeared from the market in the late ’90s. A recent frenzy of nostalgia over the game has yielded everything from popular T-shirts (“You have died of dysentery”) to band tour promotions (“Fall Out Boy Trail”) to humorous references on popular websites (“Digg has broken an axle”). via citypages.com Three Carleton Read more…
Early renderings of the McMenamins Elks project
via blog.thenewstribune.com Click the link above to see more at the Biz Buzz blog. Some great stuff.
The Beach
I was in Westport for a night this weekend, and it was a good reminder of just how close we are to the ocean. Sometimes I forget because the drive itself can feel like a real slog sometimes. But when you get there … I just love the ocean. Even during a storm in January.
Because why not test the effect of weightlessness on cats?
Who thought this would be a good idea? [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9XtK6R1QAk?wmode=transparent]