AdCritic Plays the Game…

On December 22, 2009 By

Here’s one of my favorite publications doing what I love the best: Spoofing Advertising Reality (Mr. Subliminal) in an over the top way. Think Bill Murray in Caddyshack, as he’s sharing his downscale digs with Chevy Chase.

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A Super Collider Update

On December 22, 2009 By

As anyone who follows this blog knows, we are Big Fans of Big Science. The more it looks like Star Trek, the better we seem to like it. This time, I’d like to share a little update on one of our favorite projects, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

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A Super Collider of Ideas

On December 22, 2009 By

The Large Hadron Super Collider at CERN is just about to go live. This summer ought to see a massive number of sparks flying at the subatomic level. New microphotographs of protons smashing together at 99.99999% of the speed of light (186,282.46 miles per second in a vacuum, if I remember correctly from my youth).

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I just watched Hector Ruiz, CEO of AMD Corporation (the OTHER x86 microprocessor guys). Moving. Stretching.

I grew up in a middle-class but empowering environment. Six kids and a Dad who worked his butt off as an HVAC sheetmetal worker. Mom? Did I mention 6 KIDS? You know how she spent her days.

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A Different Kind Of Sound

On December 22, 2009 By

The folks over at Wired Magazine (a perennial favorite at ThoughtOffice Towers) have put together a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the soundtrack for a new video game, Infamous, due out soon. Check out the video.

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Ray Anderson of Interface Inc. is a guy whose ideas really give me encouragement for the future. He shared his approach to sustainable business recently at TED Talks. Seems he experienced an epiphany in 1994, when he was called out in Paul Hawken’s book The Ecology of Commerce, as an example of the traditional “take / make / waste” method of doing business. Anderson took the criticism to heart, and began a program to completely reshape the way his carpet manufacturing company does business. Here’s what he has achieved, in his own words:

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This week, TED Talks posted a presentation by Saul Griffith that pushed a lot of my personal “geek” buttons – making electrical power with kites! All of us here at ThoughtOffice have a little bit of granola-crunching hippie inside us. We’ve shared many conversations about renewable energy, and leaving the planet a little better than we found it. Now, I’ll get off the pulpit, and let you watch the video:

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Use your next business meeting as a chance to find out what your next phenomenal opportunity will be that has the power to create a completely new dynamic within your business.

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A recent episode of the new PBS series Wired Science featured an awesomely cool little toy that we Baby Boomers may recall, but which is now just about extinct… the chemistry set!

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John Kao: Innovation Nation

On October 5, 2007 By

I usually don’t expect to see anything serious about “work” on Comedy Central, but this recent interview with John Kao caught my eye. He appeared recently on the Colbert Report to discuss his new book, Innovation Nation. Have a look as John Kao explains how he feels that America has lost its innovative edge.

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