Casual Friday: Stuff I Found While Bogging My Browser Down With Dozens of Tabs
Okay you guys, here in the U.S. we have Thanksgiving coming up next week , and that means you need stuff to talk about or that one relative who always smells sort of like old bacon will talk about their kids too much and shut the whole thing down. So I’ve browsed the entire Internet – every page, really – to bring you enough conversational fodder to filibuster your own family event. Off we go.
This elephant pretty much sucks at playing the piano, but he digs it, so give him credit for following his passion. Or something.
Bob Dylan has finally released a music video for Like a Rolling Stone, and it’s truly, literally, smashingly brilliant. Why? It’s interactive. Use your keyboard’s up/down keys to flip channels. Having this look so simple and easy is no small feat: the audio/video sync code must be insane, because you can swap channels at any time and the new channel will have video perfectly sync’ed with the audio, which remains unbroken throughout the entire video. Amazing work.
Ever wonder what sounds a koala bear makes? Me too. We can both stop wondering.
The family tree of bourbon whiskey. I didn’t know 75% of this, and I consider myself a bourbon enthusiast.
If you have an iPad, you should have the Paper app, because it litearlly allows even non-artistic hamfists like me to do some pretty neat stuff. Problem is, drawing with your fingers is so paleolithic. To that end, 53, the makers of Paper, have released their own stylus to go along with Paper, and it’s fantastic. It’s called Pencil. Check out the product launch video. One word: ordered.
The Fixer’s Manifesto, because fixing is a massively underappreciated component of creativity. check out Sugru while you’re at it.
Speaking of manifestos, I’ll leave you with Seth Godin’s excellent The Bootstrapper’s Manifesto. For everyone out there who has guts but not a lot of capital, vision but not a lot of resources, this is for you. Heck, everyone should read this.
Have a great weekend, everyone.
