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Category: Pop Culture

  • A Dream Speech Deconstructed

    Nancy Duarte breaks down Marin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech,” showing why it worked that day and still remains powerful today. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech analyzed by Nancy Duarte from Duarte Design on Vimeo.

  • Favorite 2010 albums

    2010 was a great year for music with great releases from many artists and bands and across genres. I didn’t get to listen to everything that the kids at Stereogum, Pitchfork or your local newspaper get to sample, but I managed to pick 6 albums as my favorites. Not necessarily the best, but albums that […]

  • My songs of 2010

    Below is the track listing for my 2010 songs. By no means is it exhaustive, but I focused on the songs and albums I listened to. I also left out quite a bit of music I did listen to, notably Arcade Fire, Band of Horses and Sufjan. The ordering is only a track listing and […]

  • Homemade Angry Birds game

    A mother made a homemade variation of Angry Birds with the birds made out of various household items. Angry Birds Live, she calls it. I used a tennis ball for the red bird, a ping-pong ball for the blue bird, modeling clay for the yellow bird, an Easter egg for the chicken, and a black […]

  • Brett Favre is like the Internet

    In a great example of divergent thinking, Kottke collects a series of tweets by Tim Carmody comparing Brett Favre’s career to that of the Internet. In 1995, Favre wins the MVP, the Packers get to the NFC Championships, and Windows 95 brings the internet & graphic interface to the masses.

  • Devour

    You Tube’s recommended videos a little, meh?  Tosh.0’s videos too random or mean-spirited? Devour is the site to cure your web video ills.  Clean design that focuses on the videos.  Good videos.  Every now and then one will be no longer available.  So, have a night with the friends and watch awesome You Tube videos.

  • Coordinated camera flashes at a concert

    At concerts, the pop of a camera flash is constant. You see it on TV at the Super Bowl or some other event. At a Robbie Williams concert, for a Nikon ad, he called upon the crowd to raise their cameras and take a picture. The result: