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Addition of Aasif Mandvi to The Daily show lends much more hilarity and that IT factor that was starting to slip (just a wee bit)
Forced Perspective:
Here is another link to comedy central for a spot called “Gratitude adjustment”.
With little time and lots of videos on you tube, this comes in handy if you have a video ipod. I tried it, it works.
The video was abit grainy, but i think its because the original wasnt clear.
Firefox (Windows only)
1. Add the Greasemonkey extension to your Firefox browser.
2. Go to www.userscripts.org and install the Download YouTube Video script.3. The next time you watch YouTube, you’ll see a Download Video option beneath the screen. Click it to save the file to your desktop as QaQw9V4Upj4.flv or whatever.
4. Install and launch the free Super video converter (www.erightsoft.com).
5. Select Apple - iPod from the Output Container option, and then the output video codec H.264/AVC. Set size to 320 x 240. If you get an error message when converting, unclick the Use DirectShow button. Otherwise, drag the converted file into iTunes and it’s ready for viewing.
Meanwhile, check out hilarious links over at virtually insane and lots of Bongo flava (Tanzanian) music over at DJ Mocha’s.
Some time ago, a certain gentleman gave me the link to the Fosters for Imaginary Friends blog, which i absolutely love. (Thank you very much M)
Just found out about this: I am soo excited to let other Foster’s fans out there know that Fosters is now on itunes. You can download the episodes to your hearts’ content. I know i will. Just a random fosters question, did any of you notice a change in Bloo’s voice, it seems to me that it has changed from the earlier episodes. Did they change the voice actor?
I can’t wait for the DVD. Come christmas time this is all i am wishing for.
BTW, do digg (vote for) WhiteAfrican’s Listd ebay service, its a great tool, plain and simple. plus si you know he is KBW. (If you do not have a digg account, just sign up for one, its a cool site esp. for you geeks wachimbi out there.) Very similar to muti 
- typically its said that muti is similar to digg but hey…muti, is moto hot.
Have a fab weekend.
I am still reading this book at this point, but just had to recommend it, and if there are any of you reading it right now, i would welcome your thoughts on it as well.
Chris Anderson is the editor of one my favorite magazines - Wired. He started blogging his book in 2004, i remember reading the piece about it but paid it no mind (I should have).
The book is similar to the hugely popular freakanomics. In just the first 2 chapters of this book are observations about current trends in business, specifically citing the entertainment and online bigwigs such as google, yahoo, ebay etc.
From what i could garner so far[I am grossly simplifying this, but do check out his blog and the book for more detail]…the idea is that there is money to be made by providing more choices, the internet provides the framework for offering and delivering these choices to many many consumers.
Increasingly the mass market is turning into a mass of niches
The strategy of successful companies such as google, is in realizing this important fact
He went through gobs of data from the above named companies, and notes on pg 12 that ‘data gives clues to how consumers will behave in markets of infinite choice.
“As companies offered more more, demand followed supply”
Looking at the above graph, the long tail in yellow - It does not reach zero…when examined closer as he does in the book, is the realization that this is where, as an aggregate, the bulk of the money is made.
It made me think of another book i have been meaning to buy, C.K Pralahad’s ‘Fortune at the bottom of the pyramid’ (Though this is on a different tip) but i would like to think of the ideas presented by both Pralahad and Anderson, though more geared towards Africa (as apparently my heart and mind always gravitate)…This might take awhile but hey this is a marathon, not a sprint eh?
AOB: Pics from Reggae on the River Festival held over this past weekend in california will be coming up. Quite an experience it was…complete with a Solar ATM. I am not kidding you. There was a solar ATM! oh, and Sean Paul too.
