Month: January 2010
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Help Use Facebook To Convince This 15 Year-Old’s Parents To “Unground” Her
Tess, a 15 year-old from Queens, just got grounded for 5 weeks by her parents. Totally not fair! So she started a Facebook group to petition her parents to “unground” her. The goal was to get to 1000 supporters. She blew past 1000 today. New York Times just broke the story. Support Tess.
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Conan O’Brien’s Craigslist Ad
Courtesy of my colleague, Dermot McCormack, here’s Conan O’Brien’s new ad on Craiglist: 4 SALE: BARELY-USED LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW – MAKE ME AN OFFER!!! (Universal Studios) Date: 2010-01-13, 3:48PM PST Reply to: sale-tntdd-1551463643@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?] This is a chance of a lifetime to own your very own late night talk show–guaranteed…
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Just Had A Long Conversation With Someone I Thought Was Someone Else
I just called Shannon, a colleague here at MTV, and we had a long conversation, in which I asked about her job, some projects she’s working on, etc. I ran the names of a few companies by her, just to see what she thought of them. I asked how her boss is doing. I asked…
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Questlove On The RZA & Amy Poehler: The Connection Between The Wu-Tang Clan & NBC’s Parks & Rec
Via Adam Stotsky… Parks and Recreation is the Wu-Tang of Comedy – watch more funny videos
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About To Snag These New Nikes From UNDFTD
Alex at Undftd just sent me a photo of these. They hit the shelf tomorrow. I am snaggin ’em tonight…
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Itay Talgam’s TED Talk On “Conducting” Leadership
I wrote about classical music conductor Itay Talgam once before. Here’s Itay’s TED talk on leadership…
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Porky The Pig & The “Bad Words” Experiment
I’m planning to attend this independent art show February 6th at CREATIVELAB: “The Bad Words Experiment” is the 2nd exhibition created by The New and Attractive Juveniles, following “The Send Help Project.” The show features more than 20 artists interpreting the theme “Bad Words” in any way they choose. The New and Attractive Juveniles —…
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Career Highlight Today
Today, I carried a regulation football on an airplane, pulled it from a bag in the middle of a 12 person meeting, stood up in the middle of my presentation, and threw it the length of the room into the surprised hands of the Global Chief Marketing Officer of one of the biggest companies and…