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I’m pretty impressed with the CommonCraft videos. They’ve found a way to make YouTube a marketing and profit center for themselves, and a lot of their work is in the training and marketing industries. They’ve found a nice niche for themselves. One of their recent blog entries catalogs some lessons learned in their previous year of business. I’ve pulled a few of the tips out below that I think apply to a training department – . . . → Read More: Tips from CommonCraft This is pretty funny if you’ve ever been addicted to Tetris. Mike, you should enjoy this. It doesn’t really get funny until about the 1:00 mark, though. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/SYRLTF71Sow" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] [tags]YouTube, Tetris, humor[/tags] Save Journeyman Streaming – Slice of SciFi All over the country, fans of this much loved, highly praised show will be streaming Journeyman’s first episode from the official NBC website. You want NBC to get a feel for the fan love for Journeyman? Then get on your computer tonight at 10PM EST and begin streaming “Journeyman” episode one. Then every night at 10PM EST stream each consecutive show and send a positive message the network . . . → Read More: Save Journeyman! Stream at 10pm! Yeah, I know it’s January, but I just saw this and couldn’t pass it up. Wow. I appreciate the sentiment, but this is someone with WAAAAY too much time (and money) on his/her hands. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/tJq97Lgfufw" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] [tags]Christmas displays[/tags] Through watching the Randy Pausch lecture (mentioned in my previous post) I discovered a great free tool for learning how to program, called Alice. What’s different about Alice is that it lets students learn the basics of object-oriented programming while avoiding a lot of the frustrations that normally come from this kind of exploration. It also makes it very easy to create working 3-D virtual worlds (it was originally conceived as a rapid prototyping tool . . . → Read More: Alice: Through the Monitor (or Creating new worlds for Novices) FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH: Famous Last Words I’ve seen this referenced many times since it was first released, but I never watched it until recently, figuring it would be depressing (plus I just didn’t have the time). I was wrong. Ignoring the circumstance for a moment, this is an incredibly good example of how to give a lecture – a format I usually don’t support. Randy Pausch was apparently a great teacher. Just looking at . . . → Read More: How to leave a lasting legacy Slice of SciFi News Briefs – Slice of SciFi Watch the pilot episode of The Sarah Conner Chronicles online! Today only! Fox will post the pilot episode of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” exclusively on tv.Yahoo! for 24 hours beginning January 4 at 9PM PT/12AM ET. The commercial-free premiere will also feature an exclusive introduction by star Lena Headey (Sarah Connor). *BREAKING STORY* — Singer Out of Next Superman – Slice of SciFi I know Bryan Singer didn’t make “Superman Returns” exactly the way a lot of people wanted, but it was still a great movie. And after his promise of more action in the sequel, I think the next film would have blown everyone away. The man knows how to make a film in this genre. To have him leave the project is a depressing . . . → Read More: *BREAKING STORY* — Singer Out of Next Superman – Slice of SciFi The Ultimate Cheapskate’s Book Contest ∞ Get Rich Slowly Get Rich Slowly is running a contest for a free copy of the Ultimate Cheapskate book. You have to enter a true story of “cheapskatery” and the best three get a copy of the book. For my money, this entry should be one of the top three: SG Says: January 4th, 2008 at 8:49 am In the checkout queue at the supermarket (your normal supermarket, . . . → Read More: Frugality gone wild! |
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