From Cuddly Cyborg via The Big Picture

OK. Enough said.

Anti-iPad anti-porn… kudos to GoDaddy for a great commercial.

You really gotta watch this. I love it.

From the description over at YouTube:

“In celebration of the greatest athletic achievement by a man on a psychedelic journey, No Mas and artist James Blagden proudly present the animated tale of Dock Ellis’ legendary LSD no-hitter…

Of the 263 no-hitters ever thrown in the Big Leagues, we can only guess how many were aided by steroids, but we can say without question that only one was ever thrown on acid.

Sadly, the great Dock Ellis died last December at 63. A year before, radio producers Donnell Alexander and Neille Ilel, had recorded an interview with Ellis in which the former Pirate right hander gave a moment by moment account of June 12, 1970, the day he no-hit the San Diego Padres. Alexander and Ilels original four minute piece appeared March 29, 2008 on NPRs Weekend America. When we stumbled across that piece this past June, Blagden and Isenberg were inspired to create a short animated film around the original audio.”

Thanks to S&R for pointing me to this.

I just twittermet an all-around nice guy with a fantastic site. (For all you tweeps out there, here’s where you can find @Dan Martell.)

Whether you tweet or not, you’ll want to click that 1st link. Especially if you’re interested in well-written, informed content about starting up and running your own company.

Dan’s done it. His thinking is clear and he knows how to write. I spent alot of time there when I found it.

When I’m deciding who to follow on twitter, I nearly always go to the site listed in the bio. When I got to Dan’s site, I found this video embedded in a post halfway down the page.

It’s Will Smith, and he’s actually got the 2 Keys to Life. Take 2 mins to listen. Check it out…

Running and Reading.

It is that simple. Run. Read. Repeat.

The 3 R’s.

Thanks, Dan. Looking forward to getting to know you.

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Found this via a tweet from Nancy Hennen aka @ViewsNews – I highly recommend you follow her tweets. She’ll do her best to keep you up with the (real) news of the day, plus anything that’s got a good fun-factor.

Like this video below…

The video was posted to the web by @Jared Lyon, who writes this on the hosting page:

This video was created for Imagine RIT, an annual festival at Rochester Institute of Technology focused on creativity and innovation of its students, faculty, and staff. It was created by myself and two coworkers.

The cardboard man at the beginning who kicks the first domino is RIT President Bill Destler, who started the annual festival at RIT in 2008.

Inspiration for the video came from some of my favorite videos including the Sony Bravia balls, paint, and rabbits commercials; the Honda cog commercial; the Guinness ‘Tipping Point’ commercial; and all of FlippyCat’s domino videos on YouTube.

Special thanks to everyone in RIT University Publications who helped with setup and cleanup.

Thanks Jared. And thank you Nancy. You were right… this is one of the best Domino setups I have ever seen.

Serendipity Rocks!

OK, so I’m sitting at the keyboard, doing what appears to folks around here as wasting the day (read: twitter). Things on tweetdeck had slowed down a bit, and I figured folks were eating dinner. So bored, I checked my emails, and the last one really caught my eye.

I have twitter setup to send an email whenever I get a direct message or reply on twitter. For me this only makes sense. If it’s a reply, then I must’ve asked a question or been a part of an ongoing conversation, and I’ll certainly want to keep up. If someone just out-of-the-blue sends me a message, I definitely want to know. To DM on twitter, you must be following the sender, and all the folks I follow are important to me. I want to hear them.

So when @Meryl333 shows up in my email, I want to read it. Strange thing was, this email was a twitter-generated copy of a reply she had sent to @petemoraites and it was just one word.

“Perfect”

That’s what she said. Perfect.

Now, for those of you who don’t know Meryl, let me say by way of introduction that I have found her to be one of my favorite ‘Follows’ on twitter. Nearly every tweet has something that somebody somewhere might need. Alot of the time that would be me. (Thanks Meryl!) She gives information, inspiration and promotes honest interaction 100%. Plus she’s just plain smart. If you’re already on twitter follow her HERE.

Anyway, to say the least, I respect Meryl’s tweets, so I was interested in what was so ‘Perfect!’. I went to Pete’s twitter profile and found, in his bio, the hashtag #GROWFREEFOOD.

Grow Free Food!

That IS Perfect! What does a bag of seeds cost? Practically nothing!

Grow Free Food!

Just about any of us could spring for a couple of bags of seeds, or some young plants (”slips”, my grandma used to call them).

Grow Free Food!

Like Pete says:

grow free food at your church, and give generously to stabilize your community

don’t rely on unstable systms, plant seeds, grow free food

Grow Free Food!

Even if there were no economic crisis, this is just a great idea. Plant some today. It’s not rocket science and it’s not even a new idea – there’s a guy somewhere around Reidsville who brings tons of potatoes he grows on his farm, to be taken freely by anyone at all. He’s been doing this for years, for free.

Grow free food. The hunger you stave just may be your own.

Okay okay… this video prominently features one of the fast food chains, probably engineered to ‘go viral’ as one of those newfangled marketing campaigns I’ve been reading about.

Still, it’s Batman. Short and funny as all the classic Batman episodes ever were, I present to you, via website FunnyOrDie, Batman Garage Sale with Adam West.

I don’t think anyone could ever do Batman (the series) as well as Adam West. While many actors will tell you that hugely successful roles tend to make their fans want to pigeonhole them into characters they want to leave behind, Adam West seems to have embraced the silly Batman role. Even 40-something years after the series was popular, he still brings that original freshness to the role.

You can see more Adam West (in cartoon form) playing himself as Mayor Adam West in the TV show Family Guy.

@therealadamwest – Thank you.

I’ve been away from Wordout for awhile getting used to the new drug. It seriously messes with me and according to some things I’ve read, maybe I shouldn’t be taking it. The side-effects I experience are in the category of ‘Call the damned doctor right now!’ – but as time carries on I am becoming more acclimated and the effects are lessening.

I’ll write more about that stuff later. Right now, I want to show you this amazing video, “Signs”. It’s about 12 minutes, and so worth it…. you should go fullscreen for this one.

Thanks to GeeksAreSexy.com.

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I am Jon. Hi.

How many instruments can you hear in this video?

None. Everything is done by the guys you see here, except for some handclaps and pittah’s being looped with the machine you see at the very beginning.

Watch this – it’s fantastic.

That may be the best a capella I’ve ever witnessed. Definitely the best a capella lead guitar.

Thanks to Anthony K. Tjan at HarvardBusiness.org for including the link in his review of the TED conference.

I am Jon, naturally.