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Phil Would Be So Proud!

Take a look at the iPad ad that is showing up everywhere on the content network:

Adam Carolla Podcast – I’m Going to Be Working with Adam Carolla’s Podcast Team! :D

adam carollaOK, I can finally let the cat out of the bag. :D  It’s SO exciting! :D

I am going to be working with the web team of (drumroll….) ADAM FREAKING CAROLLA!!!!!

I went into the offices and spent some time today…met Adam, met Donny, met Sandy, the IT guy I’ll be working most closely with.  I get started next week!

I’ll be doing some WordPress maintenance and posting, RSS and XML work, some Social Media, and down the line (hopefully eventually they’ll let me, once they get to know me and become aware of my patent awesomeness, LOL) SEO work for the podcasts.

I’ve been SUCH a huge fan of Adam and his many projects for so many years that it’s a real honor to have the opportunity to contribute to his team.  Also, as a died-in-the-wool internet geek, can I just tell you how amazing it is to have the chance to be a part of the team that puts out THE MOST POPULAR PODCAST IN THE HISTORY OF PODCASTS???!!!!!

I am beyond stoked right now!!!! :D

Snark + Marketing = Snarketing = Target Women = Hilarious

This series of videos, Target Women, were brought to my attention by college roomie Evelyn. And they are AWESOME!

Sarah Haskins does a segment on InfoMania, which you can watch Current Thursday nights at 10 pm.

There’s about forty in the series, but here are four of my favorite:

The first, the classic, the original – YOGURT! :D

Jewelry

Broadview Security

Back 2 School

PS22 Chorus – Viva La Vida by Coldplay

This is my favorite of the PS22 Chorus videos.  And I don’t even like Coldplay!  In fact, I like the PS22 version of this song quite a bit better than the original. :P

Enjoy!

1981 News Report On the Newfangled “Newspapers on Your Computer” Phenomenon

Enjoy this little blast from the past News Report about people (GASP!) reading newspapers on computers :D
I originally came across this video on Genuine Juice, and the blogger himself was actually interviewed for this news report as a kid, but ended up on the cutting room floor.

Here are a few notable things about this news report -

  • The report is given by the TV Station’s “Science Editor” because it deals with computers.  And, you know.  They’re Science-y.
  • The subject of the report dials the “local number” to connect his computer on his actual telephone! :D   Hello, War Games!
  • David Cole of the San Francisco Examiner was half-prescient.  He predicted that newspapers on computers wouldn’t make a lot of money.  Heh. That’s true.  But he also said “We’re probably not going to lose money.”  Wow, David.  Inside 30 years this technology is going to decimate your entire industry.   SOMEONE’S FACE IS RED!
  • Only between 2,000 and 3,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area owned computers!
  • There is actually a title card that designates the subject as “Richard Halloran – Owns Home Computer”
  • The TEXT ONLY edition of the newspaper takes over TWO HOURS to download!!!  And service cost FIVE BUCKS AN HOUR!

Meredith, Megan, and Charles Dickens

Meredith, meet Megan.  And vice versa. You guys have several things in common.

  • You’re both on my Facebook friends list
  • Both of your names start with “Me” – weird
  • Both of you had Dickensian new years proclamations that ended up right next to each other in my feed.

I think this is fate, you guys should be friends! :D

Happy New Year 2010 from the Good Folks at Google! :)

Saw this pointed at Mashable! (thanks Pete Cashmore, you digitial hottie you :P ) and had to try it for myself.

It’s cute!

Bill Cosby’s Not Dead – Don’t Believe Everything You Read on Yahoo Buzz

Here’s what was the top story on Buzz when I checked my Yahoo mail this morning -

And here was the news when I searched Google News -

The lesson?  Crowdsourced news can bring interesting things to the forefront, but not all of it will be true!

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Matt Nathanson Joined Twitter!

Now we can enjoy the wit, 140 characters at a time. :D

Follow him at http://twitter.com/_mattnathanson.

And, most importantly, enjoy! :D

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Zach Braff is Not Dead – But He Is Still Funny!

Check out the below video, also featuring Donald Faison, where Zach Braff combats the rumor that he has died.

It’s frickin’ hilarious! :D I know people say that he has a bad temper, but cracks me up. :P

Here’s the vid – transcription is below:

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Zach: Hi! It’s Zach Braff here. I’m alive. There was a big internet rumor today that I was dead, that I ODed on some pills. It’s not the case. I’m alive, I’m here at Scrubs shooting the new Scrubs Title Sequence. Which is a little bit like dying, so I guess that was semi-accurate. Also, I would never off myself with pills. If I had to do it, I would do it the way that everyone else would do it, by hitting myself with pots and pans.

A couple innaccuracies you should have noticed when you saw the thing, if you believed it.

One. The dude said that, let me just pull it up here, he said that I was found in my 32,000 square foot estate in Beverly Hills. Look, I’m not Oprah, all right? That’s a big ass house. And, you know, I’ve got a nice house, but 32,000 square feet – that’s like some Oprah shit right there.

Oh, and also, I think it’s funny that when I posted earlier that I was alive I didn’t really get that many “likes.” And I think there should have been way more likes out there for those of you who like me, when I said that I was alive.

On a positive note, I was able, when my friend Donald Faison called me frantically, I was able to work out with him that if I do ever die, I would like him to sing an R&B version of Wind Beneath my Wings at my funeral.

So I just want to say to Chris Laga-laga-nella, who apparently is the douchebag that started this, you win my first ever “Douche of the Day” award for making my Mom upset.

And now, to play us out, Donald Faison with an R&B rendition of “Wind Beneath My Wings”

Donald (singing): Did you ever know that you’re my hero? You’re everything I would like to could be? OOOO I could..

Zach (interruping): I’m sorry to interrupt, but would you mind just urbaning it up a little bit? R&B it up.

Donald (singing): Did you ever know that you’re my hero…

Zach: Thank you everybody.

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