Now THIS is a Company

The United States Beer Drinking Team!
What is it? From the website:
The U.S. Beer Drinking Team™ ( USBDT ® ) is the first team dedicated to the millions of passionate beer drinkers in the United States. The USBDT’s goal is to promote the “sister and brotherhood of beer” while promoting responsible drinking.
This is a [...]

Bird Poops in Mouth

just something good to get your monday going…

Patriots Perfect? Don’t Talk to Me About iIT.

I am pretty sick of hearing about the Patriots, their quest to perfection and all that.  I am forever destined to curse the entire Boston area for stealing all of the good Minnesotans.  First is was David Ortiz and Doug Mientkiewicz going to the Red Sox, then it was Moroney going to the Pats and Kevin [...]

All-Wooden Bike

I love this. Some high-school kid built a wooden bike. Everything is wood - even the chain. Pretty sweet (from Gizmodo)

The short head is human, middle fat is social and long tail is algorithmic

This was a quote i found on Chris Anderson’s  - the author of The Long Tail - and it refers to how search will be done in the future.  The short popular stuff will be pre-loaded results by humans, the medium will be populated by friends and the obscure long tail is found by algorithms.  [...]

Chickipedia: place for guys who have no life

Which occasionally is me. So, i cannot rip on this site. Instead, i found myself updating it — almost too much. What is it? Chickipedia is a wikipedia type site about chicks. Chicks like Angelina Jolie, Keri Russell, Megan Fox, etc. It’s a site dedicated to turning you into a more [...]

Music lessons from Seth

Speaking of music (my last post was), a good blog post from Seth Godin about music lessons. To read it all, go here. The main points were:
0. The new thing is never as good as the old thing, at least right now.
Soon, the new thing will be better than the old thing will [...]

What are the top albums of 2007?

Do you know what the top 10 albums of 2007 were?  Seven years ago the top 10 included ‘N Sync, Eminem, Britney Spears, Creed, Nelly, Backstreet Boys, and Destiny’s Child.  These are all mainstream pop stars that everyone’s heard of and everyone knew that everyone was listening to this stuff.  Last year’s top albums were:

“Noel”/Josh [...]

10 ground rules for women when watching football

I was hanging out with some girls this weekend who were pretty clueless about the football games going on.  Thus, i thought it’d be a good time to replay an oldie but goodie. Here are The Sports Guy’s 10 Ground Rules for women when watching football with guys.  (i can’t find his link otherwise i’d [...]

Afoot and Light-hearted for the New Year

The poet Billy Collins once observed that all babies are born with a knowledge of poetry, because the lub-dub of the mother’s heart is in iambic meter. Then, Collins said, life slowly starts to choke the poetry out of us. This it too bad. With that in mind, i thought i’d post one [...]