A rock solid presentation on the education of brand and business. I know it may seem long, but give your time and attention even if you think you already know this stuff. There are a lot of great nuggets of information here. Enjoy!
And the first seal broke and they said BEHOLD, and from that spat forth hair bands and all that is glam metal. Look, I'll be the first person to admit to owning, listening and even enjoying [some] hair bands from the 80's. I even worked for Crimson Glory, though I'd try convince myself that the were not exclusive to the genre. The larger question for me still lies in why can these things keep coming back like a bad STD.
Admittedly, there were a great many reasons why you would be consumed by the menace:
Now, don't get in my face and tell me I didn't know or understand the time. My 'uniform' was jeans, chuck tailors and a Metallica t-shirt – I had one for every day in a month, no lie! So I damn near choked on my morning coffee when iTunes served up in the "Rock" section a band called "Steel Panther." I thought it was a joke, no really. THANK GOD IT WAS! I've only listened to one thirty second snippet to know that I you can never go back. All I could see was Will Ferrell in Starsky and Hutch asking for the Angry Dragon when I saw the band photo. I GET IT! Reach out to a new generation Justice, some people really liked that niche genre of music Justice. No, it's for making fun of and listening to (while in the car with the windows rolled up) at a volume that you won't get caught.
Think back everyone what do you keep in the darkest recesses of your past? Dungeons & Dragons? Modonna lookalike outfit maybe a Michael Jackson jacket? With that said there are some things that should remain in the Arc of the Musical Covenant. Or you're more than likely going to end up like the Nazi at the end of Raiders. Good riddance.
It's the little things in life that I get the most excited about. When my daughter says a new word, when my wife laughs (with me - not at me) and when Apple recreates something as basic, yet needed as the mouse. Enter the "Magic Mouse." Released today, with a new iMac, Mac Mini and MacBook respectively. This mouse, at least on the surface having not actually tried one, is yet another shift in taking something commonplace and pushing it even further.
Of course it's wireless and beautiful. However, the power comes from advanced "gestures" allowing the user to combine track-pad functionality and a standard mouse usability.
"When you use gestures, it’s as if you’re touching what’s on your screen. For instance, swiping through web pages in Safari gives you the feeling of flicking through pages in a magazine. And scrolling with Magic Mouse isn’t your everyday scrolling. It supports momentum scrolling (similar to iPhone and iPod touch), where the scrolling speed is dictated by how fast or slowly you perform the gesture."
There are very few people nowadays that I think could pull of the "Elizabethan Ruff" neck ruffles. This played out style was popular with the people in the olden times for those debutants that didn't really see a need to see their feet.
But I think we have a new school winner – enter Creative Director for the Martin agency Andy "Whiteboard Master" Azula. This poor guy pitched the work so well for UPS that he now plays the role on television commercials globally. Kudos!
What does it not do? I just ran across this iphone app on Mashable and it's look like having a genuis in your pocket! Based on what I can gather from website the application utilizing it's proprieatry "Computational™ Knowledge Engine" it operates as a REST-style webservice and can be used with any programming language that supports HTTP and XML. This means that the most popular web languages can all interact with WolframAlpha’s base system to bring up results and customized readings.
"Drawing on 20+ years of development, 50,000+ built-in algorithms, and 10+ trillion pieces of continually updated and curated data, the Wolfram|Alpha app is the ultimate replacement for almost any kind of calculator or reference book—and much more.
The breakthrough technology of Wolfram|Alpha for the first time lets you get expert-level answers to your specific freeform questions—complete with stunning, dynamically generated visualizations and tables, and richer and deeper information than you imagined possible."
Go check it out for yourself:
Ezechiel 25:17 The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he (The Denver Broncos) who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those (The San Diego Chargers) who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 2:29PM