Saw an interview with Tony Fadell, CEO of Nest on Bloomberg TV this evening. Fadell is an ex Apple guy who had a lot to do w/ the iPod and iPhone product lines.
I’ve heard about Nest, but hadn’t checked it out — impressive stuff, and could have a big impact:
Love the design of their site too: nest.com
Insanely good, and take the advise of the person behind it:
PLEASE WATCH IN HD FULL SCREEN w/SOUND. It is a much better viewing experience. Hopefully you have a 1080P monitor and good connection. If not, bug a friend or colleague that does. It is worth it.
Via gizmodo.com
Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, discusses the lessons he learned from his father’s experience as someone who grew up poor and was helped by a “conspiracy of love” around him, and how he believes that the solutions are out there with regard to solving major problems in criminal justice and education.
From Google Zeitgeist today, really impressive:
Great interview with Matt Mullenweg on KTEH “This is Us!”:
Worth watching — and look out for yours truly who can be seen from various angles in this short 5 minute video 
Charlie Brooker nails the problem with lots of TV news segments these days. Simply hilarious — this is a must watch:
I have a feeling Michael Pick is going to leave a comment here
I haven’t kept up with this show, but this is hysterical — from HBO: Flight of the Conchords:
Pretty funny ad showing the power of blogging
( For those in RSS, youtube link )
The official 2.7 release is now available for download.
Check out the great video overview to see what’s new:
More details over on the WordPress.org dev blog.
Worth watching this clip below – an interview with Nassim Taleb, author of Black Swan, and Benoît Mandelbrot – the famous mathematician re: our current financial crisis:
Everyone I’ve talked to the last couple of days has lost countless hours on the new ( soft launched ) MTV Music site which has a huge archive of music videos.
What’s amazing for me is that I don’t think I ever saw these videos – especially since MTV basically stopped playing music videos in the early 90s.
Here are a few classic early 90s hip hop vids I found browsing around that bring me back to my college days
