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Doritos' Super Bowl Ad Finalists Frito Lay decided to let any 'ol hack make their Super Bowl commercial for them - and got over a thousand entries. The Top 5 are pretty funny, but my money is on Mouse Trap... Labels: advertising, contest, video
posted by Brad at 1/30/2007 05:24:00 PM | permalink |
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We Are Colbert's Lemmings Steven Colbert offered $5 to the first person who changed the Reality article on Wikipedia to reflect the news that Microsoft is offering to pay people to "correct" the site. I pulled the page up 10 seconds later, and it was already done:  I'm probably guilty of relying on Wikipedia as my only source of "facts" more often than I should, but it's hard to argue with its ease of use and efficiency of design. Why just today, I edited the October 13th article to add new Gopher Football coach Tim Brewster to the list of birthdays... Labels: colbert, screenshot, wikipedia
posted by Brad at 1/29/2007 10:41:00 PM | permalink |
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Guitar Hero = REAL Fun I dragged DDR mats out to California last weekend, but Guitar Hero 2 was easily the crowd favorite (thanks to Heidi & Jeff.) It seriously makes you feel like a rock star - this video does a pretty good job of capturing the essence... I set the high score for Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name," and have listened to the mp3 approximately 10 times since getting home on Tuesday...
posted by Brad at 1/28/2007 06:59:00 PM | permalink |
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Twins Fest Chris and I went to Twins Fest '07 this afternoon, which was more fun than I expected it to be. No autographs or photos with players, but I could have spent a half hour studying the architectural diagrams and models of the new stadium... We also got a dugout/clubhouse/pressbox tour, saw the traveling Hall of Fame exhibit, and learned how to make balloon animals: That was my first iMovie creation, not bad eh? Labels: baseball, imovie, sports, twins, video
posted by Brad at 1/28/2007 05:13:00 PM | permalink |
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To Renew Or Not To
 Member Since: 12/04/1998 Membership Expires: 01/31/2007 I've got less than a week to decide if I want to shell out another $35 to stay in the Dave Matthews Band fan club and keep my seniority. Is it a sign that they kicked me out last fall? Or would all the groveling I did to get back in go to waste if I don't renew? Labels: music
posted by Brad at 1/25/2007 03:40:00 PM | permalink |
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Send a Text via Email I've told several people about this recently, so I thought it might be good to capture here for all to know. Did you know you can send a text message to someone's phone using a regular email address? Every network has their own address, for example: Verizon: 10digitphonenumber@vtext.com Sprint: 10digitphonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com T-Mobile: 10digitphonenumber@tmomail.net Nextel: 10digitphonenumber@messaging.nextel.com Cingular: 10digitphonenumber@cingularme.com Google also has a Send to Phone form if you prefer to keep it anonymous...
posted by Brad at 1/24/2007 02:19:00 AM | permalink |
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Please Watch
 After seeing this, I want to turn off the lights and heat and never leave my apartment... Labels: movies
posted by Brad at 1/24/2007 12:14:00 AM | permalink |
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Apples to Apples Apple made a record-breaking billion dollar profit last quarter, fueled primarily by the 21 million iPods they sold. As a new MacBook owner, I was more interested in how laptop sales contributed... Turns out they sold almost a million laptops in the last 3 months of the year, a tiny improvement from the 587,000 sold near the end of 2005. Looking at the revenue from those sales, it appears each laptop sold for $1700 (on average) compared to $1389 last year. A direct comparison isn't really fair however, since Apple was selling the G4 iBook and Powerbook in 2005 and the MacBook (and Pro) in 2006. Lots of good comparative pictures on Flickr...    PS: Have you ever played the board game I named this post over? It's fun. Labels: apple, macbook, numbers
posted by Brad at 1/18/2007 02:24:00 PM | permalink |
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Minnie Squirrel? "Urban Outfitters asked 18 artists and designers to describe their city in sticker form..."  WTF is this? Labels: art, design, twincities
posted by Brad at 1/17/2007 10:02:00 AM | permalink |
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Southwest Goes Gradient, Social Seems like gradients are all the rage in (web) design these days, and Southwest Airlines just joined the party.  The newsletter that pointed me to the new site also mentioned "...the new home page will feature photos taken by you, our Customers. We love bringing Customers the Freedom to Fly, and we thought it would be fun to share photos of where that Freedom has taken you. Stay tuned..." It will be interesting to see if this is just another place to upload photos of your trip, or amateurs like me will get our 15 minutes of fame on the homepage: 
posted by Brad at 1/16/2007 05:06:00 PM | permalink |
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I'm Lazy, But Not a Hypocrite I just realized that I haven't written a single post since getting my MacBook, so why not start with a rant? I find it amusing that a software company would prominently display a Mac on their homepage when they don't (yet) make software for OS X...  PS - I promise not to become a "Mac rules, Windows sucks" guy just because I now own one. Labels: macbook, rant, software
posted by Brad at 1/14/2007 05:12:00 PM | permalink |
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mmm, Lacrosse & Beer I've never been to a Lacrosse game before, but it could be fun to see the Minnesota Swarm at the Xcel Center sometime. I was poking around their website and noticed a pretty nice promotion...  For $18 (including a stupid $5.55 Ticketmaster convenience charge), you get
Anyone available/interested in going to the 3/23 or 3/31 games?
posted by Brad at 1/11/2007 11:55:00 AM | permalink |
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My Mom Always Wanted a Jaguar... ...I wonder if she'd like it to be covered in Post-It notes?  Labels: photo
posted by Brad at 1/10/2007 02:06:00 AM | permalink |
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AAPL from Coast to Coast Apple My conclusion is that they love the iPhone, and dislike Apple TV almost as much as they hate John Mayer... 
posted by Brad at 1/09/2007 04:58:00 PM | permalink |
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Anticipation Building... The Apple Store is down for Steve Jobs' keynote (starts in 20 minutes) - hopefully they remember to drop MacBook prices a bit!  Labels: apple
posted by Brad at 1/09/2007 10:41:00 AM | permalink |
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Design = Cool
 Kristi got me a Picasso for Christmas, and included in the box was a copy of the MoMA Design Store catalog. I found quite a few cool things in there and thought I'd bookmark them here for eternity... New York Coffee Cup Fisheye Camera Candle With Matchbox Crumpled Cups Duo Soap Dispenser Apple Slicer Marli Bottle Opener Kitchen Tape Timer
posted by Brad at 1/07/2007 07:02:00 PM | permalink |
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Answers from Amazon
 "NowNow is a service that mobile users can use to find answers to any question via mobile email. When you post a question to NowNow via email, our NowNow workers will surf the web to find the answer for you." While NowNow is in a closed beta, Amazon also offers Askville - "a place where you can share and discuss knowledge with other people by asking and answering questions on any topic."  I posted questions tonight about spoiled eggs and hanging posters and have 4 answers already - one of which is right on. Labels: handy
posted by Brad at 1/05/2007 11:49:00 PM | permalink |
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Lodi Wine in San Francisco Chronicle While gathering some of my favorite California Wine Country links to share with a friend, I stumbled across a lengthy article in the San Francisco Chronicle that's all about Lodi wineries and grape growers. In case you're wondering why they don't want Lodi "to turn into Orange County" or why the city lacks an Asparagus & Visitor Center, read on. Labels: wine
posted by Brad at 1/05/2007 05:57:00 PM | permalink |
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Photos from Disneyland I spent a few minutes tonight uploading photos from our most recent trip - to the LA area for Disneyland, New Year's Eve, the Rose Bowl Parade and watching several bowl games. Super fun time - as evidenced by a couple other picturs from Drew and Disney... I was in charge of running to various rides and getting FastPasses for the group, thus maximizing our riding time and minimizing our waiting in hidden Disney lines time.  Drew and I did a pretty good job of acting out two characters from this Coke billboard in Disney's California Adventure.  We had fun on Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters, and the coolest part was that they let you e-mail yourself the photo instead of trying to con you into spending $12 for a 5x7.  
posted by Brad at 1/04/2007 09:12:00 PM | permalink |
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