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Good stuff from YouTube today: YouTube adds vuvuzela button?

Just click the football/soccer ball to the right of the timeline and enjoy!

(Click here if you can’t see the goat bagpipe + vuvuzela)

Some more samples:

• carlton singing
• trolololo
• More examples at Reddit.com

Crazy simple way to create online lists, and even share them (From Cameron Moll)

And, Google turns on public links for Google Docs. So, now you can make your Google Docs visible and accessible to everyone.

Google Docs make collecting information on your website, collaborating with a group and publishing charts generated from spreadsheets a snap.

are they contractually obligated to talk to Trump?

this doesn’t objectify women. at all.

this band has it all: Killer vamping. Lil Wayne vocoder. Hair gel.

are they sharing one bikini?

odd. there’s no semen on their faces.

Hail! Hail! to Michigan.

Look out, Satan: Dio, dead at 67.

Rush = ‘Chicks’

My Saturday Science project ™ is set:

In ‘War Made New,’ noted defense historian Max Boot runs through 500 years of battle to show that victory goes to the combatant who had digested and incorporated not just the latest weapon technology, but also the culture and bureaucracy most adept at exploiting this technology.

In other words, it’s not just the latest, greatest military tool that wins battles and wars.

These upheavals on the battlefield show how revolutions in military affairs quickly upend empires, assumptions and future warfare.

It is not hard while reading Boot’s authoritative descriptions of battles in Italy, Koniggatz and Tsushima for me to link the breakthrough tactics and organizations of those winners with the current array of challengers the modern media company faces daily.

The French canons of 1494 and the Prussian needle guns of 1866 were just as revolutionary as the rise of cable and the utility of the internet.

While media companies assail the post-modern methods of web journalism; outdated management techniques and labor fight the radical methods information gathering (When “good enough” journalism is better) while being slow to the punch to counter the hype and monetize the promise of online advertising.

The outcome of media’s struggle to survive depends less on the interest of the public in news, but more on the ability of media companies to deploy organization, staff, technology and tactics to innovate on the sales and content battlefields.

Media pundits sound like an outdated army, scoffing at the enemy’s unwillingness to line up and fight like men when complaints of “inaccuracy” (TMZ leads with early details, while Los Angeles Times and AP do the heavy lifting) and “you’re stealing” (Tighter copyright law could save newspapers: Connie Schultz) are lodged against the likes of TMZ, Newser and Wikipedia.

It’s high time for media companies to learn faster from the likes of Boot, who show how old methods and organization stand little chance and how difficult it is for incumbent s to realize continuous hegemony.

Ar-nold chases man
McG makes things go ka-boom
Bale channels Batman

The best show on TV is over. And, apparently, it’s up to us humans to make sure it happens again. Robot rebellion, here we come.

Despite a finale that was similar to The Matrix Revolutions (A battle that can’t be won, featuring an onslaught of machines, that somehow ends in a stalemate.) and had its fair share of “What?” moments, Battlestar Galactica ended with an entertaining episode. But, I drank the Kool Aid along time ago. There are many valid arguments why the ending of the show stunk here. The best “What the frak?” moment, of course, being that they just gave up all their technology. I’d last about a week — max — in this ‘Cast Away’ scenario.

I’ll miss my Cylon fix every Friday night. Thanks for the good run, BSG.

My favorite episodes … and places to get into the fray if you’ve never watched:

• Miniseries
• The Hand of God (Season 1, episode 10)
• Kobol’s Last Gleaming (Season 1 finale)
• Resurrection Ship (Season 2, episodes 11, 12)
• Exodus (Season 3, episodes 3, 4)
• Crossroads (Season 3, episodes 19, 20)
• Blood on the Scales (Season 4, Episode 16)

Details on all of the episodes.

Battlestar finale reviews:

• ‘Battlestar Galactica’ finale is satisfying — so say we all
• Battlestar drinking game
• Goodbye, “Galactica”
• 10 Business Lessons From ‘Battlestar Galactica’

Sorry to spam everyone, but I’ve got to compare my Facebook RSS feeds to the ones I’ve set up for other WKYC Facebook users, like Tom Beres

This isn’t news to regular Firefox users, but you can set multiple start pages / homepage within Firefox by using one of the most-powerful yet least-used keys, the pipe: “|”.

Go to: “Tools” –> “Options” and in the “Main” tab, next to “Home page:” type:

http://www.wkyc.com/ | http://cleveland.metromix.com | http://cleveland.momslikeme.com/ | http://www.highschoolsports.net

I guess you could type other pages in between the pipe. I don’t know why you would want to, though.

You can do something similar in IE7, too.