Finished my first 10K run...

So I ran my first 10K run this weekend. Finished in 0:59:51.3, considering I was aiming for a 1:05:00 result I am quite happy with how I did. Felt really good to do this. Hurt a little at the end, should have stretched out at the end of the race so I wouldn't tighten up later. So I finished up about the middle of the pack. It was a crowded run, 5800 people running with times ranging from 0:28:59.0 (WOW) to the walkers pulling in at 2:51:08.

So overall it was a good run, now I'm already looking forward to my next to better my time. See y'all next year.

National Capital Race Weekend

cheers

s!

MAKE THE PIE HIGHER

by George W. Bush

I think we all agree, the past is over.
This is still a dangerous world.
It's a world of madmen and uncertainty
and potential mental losses.

Rarely is the question asked
Is our children learning?
Will the highways of the Internet become more few?
How many hands have I shaked?

They misunderestimate me.
I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.
I know that the human being and the fish can coexist.
Families is where our nation finds hope, where our wings take dream.

Put food on your family!
Knock down the tollbooth!
Vulcanize society!
Make the pie higher! Make the pie higher!

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OK so I know this has been getting around... but I think it's brilliant.

Out of the mouthes of... well... um.... the President of the United States...

Initially found on Snopes.com Urban Legend Reference.

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s!

Chairman Bill's New Proclamation

Microsoft's Gates Touts Blogging as Business Tool

So Mr. Bill has openly admitted to thinking that Blogs are both a cultural as well as business tool. There are already over 700 active bloggers in Redmond and the numbers are growing. Who needs MSN Messenger - too distracting, who needs E-Mail - too much SPAM.... Now onto Weblogs with an RSS feed - keep up to date and informed without all the distraction. And Bill has acknowledged that since blogs are now running using non-MS product, there is a fear that there will be turn away from the MS platform.

So with this, I think we may be looking at MS Blog coming to you soon. Beware Blogger, Moveable Type and friends - Bill is coming for you.

Just think of it. A somewhat unusable, unintuitive, bloated, buggy blogging application with a confusing insecure RSS feeder for the masses.

Looking forward to it.... Will it run on my mac?


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s!

Bush: Dumb Like A Bullet

Is Dubya both a bumbling simpleton *and* a shrewd manipulator who smirked at tortures in Iraq?

Bush: Dumb Like A Bullet : SFGate.com

Another great editorial on the state of affairs in the White House from Mark Morford of the SF Gate.

Sometimes you really got to wonder what is going on in Washington... Is Dubya for real?

And it seems the American public buy it? I just don't understand. Must be nice to have most of the mainstream news media as your personal soap box.

Puppets that don't seem to question a word you say.

Give your head a shake people.

s!

Lethologica

n. forgetfulness of words. Temporary inability to remember a proper noun or name.

I dunno what else to say... this is my life.... J

Really its true...

cheers...

s!

New Video News Service from Comcast

Nicely designed news video feed... Not the coolest or most revolutionary of designs, but nice, clean and interactive.

Will be interesting to see how much traffic it gets... Also interesting to see that you can set up your own watch list to personalize the sources to be fed... Trash TV to National Geographic... News Fan.

cheers

s!

New project from Frank Gehry

MIT's Ray & Maria Strata Center

Grand new project from Frank Gehry... Incredible looking... will link to more pictures when i find some...

Original link from The New York Times.

Here's another: MIT site

And the last year in construction movie.

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s!

International Herald Tribune: Viral ads are a marketing tightrope

Yet another article on the potential hazards of viral marketing and the effects to the corporate image. Another citing for the infamous Sportka cat spot...

Here's the link: Viral ads are a marketing tightrope

Very Funny Cat Decapitations... Is it OK?

So the not so new marketing buzz-word is Viral Marketing...

All the kids are doing it. Its cool. Its keen. Its cheap and easy.. Keep it funny and light... And don't piss people off...

So there goes Ford...Well Ford UK with a new Sportka viral ad.... Cute car.. oh look a cat... Cat meet car... Car eat cat...

Is it right... Is it wrong? PETA has expressed there outrage, but c'mon... We all know they didn't really kill a cat to make this... So what's the deal... Did they go too far?

Really, I don't think it was the most appropriate thing to do, but it was done in good fun, and to get the message out there... And it WORKED... The darn thing is popping up everywhere!

So as far as a message to the world about cruelty to animals.. a dismal failure....

As a way to get traffic to your site... a phenomenal success... nolonger on the Ford UK site... Funny that!

Here's a link in case you haven't seen it yet.... Sportka - the Ka's evil twin

Occam's Razor

Occam's Razor : "a problem should be stated in its basic and simplest terms. In science, the simplest theory that fits the facts of a problem is the one that should be selected."

In other words: KEEP IT SIMPLE!

Philisophy for life.

s!

Cool typography illustration....

Music by Dylan... Type by Garamond...typo_dylan

See how long it takes for this one to pass around....

Incredible new promo piece done for TAG Heuer.

Beautiful integration of old and new technology... amazing renders... go have a look TAG Heuer > Basel 2004

cheers

s!

Happy Birthday Tyopgrphi.ca

Typographica launched two years ago today... Great type resource for all...

Visit them at: Typographica. A Journal of Typography.

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s!