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2008 MS Walk April 5th.

2008-03-10T19:19:00.012-06:00

The 2008 MS Walk is coming up, and we've got a big team going! The Muddy Waters Walkers have participate for the last 8 years, both in the San Francisco area and here in New Orleans. You can Register here to sign up and/or pledge money.

The walk is Saturday, April 5th at 8:00 in Audubon Park.

Muddy Waters, by the way, is our dog. Also one of the great old bluesmen, and a reference to the mighty Mississippi River. We're working on 2008 T-shirts. Contact Peter for more information about the Walk and joining us!

You can comment below to let us know you're coming, or to ask any questions!!

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20 Minutes 4Obama.

2008-02-12T13:16:00.000-06:00

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Insert Memento joke here.

2008-02-01T10:21:00.000-06:00

The To-Do Tattoo, the perfect solution for those with shoddy short-term memory.

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Time Stops in Grand Central.

2008-02-01T09:53:00.000-06:00

Wow. Funny as hell. Thanks, Vector Living!

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Obey Obama.

2008-01-30T13:24:00.002-06:00

Pretty neat new Shepard Fairey prints, found at the Creative Review Blog.

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BarCamp New Orleans

2008-01-28T09:50:00.000-06:00

BarCampNOLA Conference Set to Gather Gulf Coast Technology Experts for a Good Cause

BarCampNOLA, a technology conference that aspires to bring Gulf Coast digerati, entrepreneurs and those interested in them together in order to connect with the local community, socialize and learn, will be held on February 16th and 17th at the Voodoo Ventures, LLC offices at 757 St. Charles Avenue, Suite 301 in New Orleans.

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences that was born from the desire of people to share and learn in an open, participatory environment. BarCamp conference content is provided by participants and often focuses on early-stage web applications and other open source technologies. Participants interact in the form of discussion, demos, and collaborative projects. The first BarCamp was held in Palo Alto, California in 2005. Since then, the BarCamp movement has gained momentum as hundreds of BarCamp conferences have been held in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Australia and Asia over the past few years. BarCampNOLA is one of over 30 BarCamp conferences that have already been scheduled to take place in the United States this year.

The main focus of BarCampNOLA organizers is to help a struggling Gulf Coast-based small business or nonprofit by participating in a “hack day” style project over the course of the conference in order to produce or modify a needed technological service such as a new website or enhanced Web services. Organizers anticipate the attendance of participants with expertise in relation to code, design, creative concept production, and a variety other technology-related specializations.

BarCampNOLA is free to attend, and active participation is all that is asked of attendees. Wireless internet access will be provided by the conference. Also, individuals who attend are simply asked to share information regarding knowledge gained and overall experiences of the event via public web channels such as blogging, photo sharing and wiki-ing.

Like previous BarCamp conferences, BarCampNOLA will rely on securing sponsorship and donations ranging from food, beverages, and media advertising to monetary contributions of $250 to $400. BarCampNOLA organizers are actively soliciting sponsorship from local businesses interested in supporting the local tech community. Sponsors will have their organization’s logo printed on the back of the official BarCampNOLA T-shirt and are more than welcome to participate in the conference itself.

Local press will also be invited to the event, and are encouraged to assist in the promotion of BarCampNOLA. New Orleans-based organizations and groups that are able to spread the word about BarCampNOLA to their membership are greatly encouraged to do so.

For more information regarding attendance or sponsorship of BarCampNOLA, please contact Chris Schutz, CEO of Voodoo Ventures, LLC by phone at (504)581-6446 or via e-mail at cschultz@voodooventures.com. Also, visit BarCampNOLA’s official website at http://www.barcamp.org/BarCampNOLA.

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Old New World Order.

2008-01-25T15:18:00.000-06:00

Pretty cool agitprop from Knife Party and Submediatv. Jonah pointed me to this today. Said it was a little dated, but I still dig it.

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Shive on the Scene.

2008-01-16T15:38:00.000-06:00

These crazy bastards are too funny. The NSFW Dirty Coast jingle reminds me a little of one of my favorite local NOLA commercial jingles, for Broad Warehouse furniture.

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1 iPhone Per Child.

2008-01-09T18:54:00.001-06:00

Good stuff. Thanks Twenty B's!
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One Laptop for Xmas.

2008-01-07T14:53:00.000-06:00

This year, my company Annunciation donated 'One Laptop Per Child' laptops on behalf of our clients for the year-end holidays. We ended up with one of them at our offices. Very neat. The attentiveness in engineering is immediately apparent. Couldn't find the hand crank on ours - we must've gotten the domestic model. Great program, and we're excited to watch it progress.
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The Davos Question.

2007-12-17T09:21:00.000-06:00

Every year many of the world's top leaders attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss how to make the world a better place.

This year, you get to join them.

First, submit a video answering The Davos Question:

"What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?"

Then, starting January 1st, watch and rank others' ideas. The highest-rated videos will be screened in Davos (January 23-27), where world leaders will watch your videos and make responses of their own. Your idea could be the start of something big.

Visit The Davos Question website.

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R.I.P. Evel

2007-12-10T08:49:00.001-06:00

Evel Knievel died last week. He was huge when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s. The Daredevil Stunt Cycle was a Big Deal. They don't make them like Evel these days. David Blaine and Chriss Angel et al pale in comparison to the impact and awe this strange, probably brain-damaged madman created.

Update: just read that the Stunt Cycle has generated over $300MM in revenue. Wow.

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Old-fashioned Vandalism.

2007-12-03T16:32:00.001-06:00

The guy across the street got TP'ed over the weekend, and it struck me that this expression of juvenile mischief seems a lot fewer and further between than it used to. I enjoyed the art of heaving Charmin back in the early eighties, but don't see it much anymore. I suppose everyone gets TP'ed virtually on Facebook these days. Yeesh.

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Email Standards Project.

2007-11-30T14:53:00.000-06:00

The Email Standards Project is about working with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email. The project was formed out of frustration with the inconsistent rendering of HTML emails in major email clients.

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Whooops.

2007-11-30T11:06:00.000-06:00

This photo provided by the Florida Highway Patrol shows a State Police cruiser covered with bags of marijuana Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007. The Florida Highway Patrol says anyone missing two big bags of pot can call their Tampa area office. A crew picking up litter from along Interstate 4 near Tuesday morning made an unusual find: two big plastic garbage bags stuffed with freshly harvested marijuana. (AP Photo/Florida Highway Patrol)

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NOLA BarCamp

2007-11-27T11:24:00.000-06:00

There's talk of organizing a BarCamp here in NOLA this coming January. Details to follow!

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

The name "BarCamp" is a playful allusion to the event's origins, with reference to the hacker slang term, foobar: BarCamp arose as a spin-off of Foo Camp, an annual invitation-only participant driven conference hosted by open source publishing luminary Tim O'Reilly.

The first BarCamp was held in Palo Alto, California, from August 19-21, 2005, in the offices of Socialtext. It was organized in less than one week, from concept to event, with 200 attendees. Since then, BarCamps have been held in over 31 cities around the world, in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Australasia and Asia. To mark the one-year anniversary of BarCamp, BarCampEarth was held in multiple locations world wide on August 25-27, 2006.

UPDATE: I believe the date is narrowing to the 5th and 6th of January. Please visit the wiki that has been set up for up-to-date info!

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Facebook's Flaw: Humans

2007-11-27T10:52:00.001-06:00

Great article on the nuances of social networking, titled How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook, by Cory Doctorow (co-author of the Boing Boing blog)...

Facebook is no paragon of virtue. It bears the hallmarks of the kind of pump-and-dump service that sees us as sticky, monetizable eyeballs in need of pimping. The clue is in the steady stream of emails you get from Facebook: "So-and-so has sent you a message." Yeah, what is it? Facebook isn't telling -- you have to visit Facebook to find out, generate a banner impression, and read and write your messages using the halt-and-lame Facebook interface, which lags even end-of-lifed email clients like Eudora for composing, reading, filtering, archiving and searching. Emails from Facebook aren't helpful messages, they're eyeball bait, intended to send you off to the Facebook site, only to discover that Fred wrote "Hi again!" on your "wall." Like other "social" apps (cough eVite cough), Facebook has all the social graces of a nose-picking, hyperactive six-year-old, standing at the threshold of your attention and chanting, "I know something, I know something, I know something, won't tell you what it is!"

full article

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Bush Pointillism

2007-11-21T19:43:00.000-06:00

I really like Phil Hansen's work - do a search on his name on YouTube - neat stuff.
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Legal (and delicious) Crack.

2007-11-21T18:31:00.001-06:00

I've been drinking obscene quantities of this stuff lately. Delicious - and a methamphetamine-like buzz to boot. A 64oz. jug of heaven will cost you, though - $8.79 at my neighborhood Canseco's. Figure on getting at least 15 hiwatt megaton-strength coffee drinks out of it, though, which beats the hell out of punk Frappacinos up and down the street. Highly recommended, seriously good iced coffee. If you manage to drink the entire 64oz., let me know how it goes. Been there.

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Best Spam Ever

2007-11-16T19:35:00.000-06:00

There are so many things about this one that I love. Click it to see full size. Trouser python? Moons of Saturn? His/her Royal Highness will attend, so I guess it's all good. Don't despond, order Megadik today.

- main opposition leader.

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What's a Girl to Do?

2007-11-15T08:41:00.000-06:00

Saw this on Newstoday® - love it. File under "morose beauty BMX stunt pop videos"
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Faub.org Meets the Public

2007-11-06T12:06:00.001-06:00

We had a launch party last weekend for the creative group we formed about a year ago here in New Orleans. Lots of fun, see some of the pix going up here. Thanks to all who came out and signed in to keep the independent creative community talking. Special thanks to Andy at Barrister's Gallery for hosting the event space on St. Claude. The weather was perfect, the DJs were rockin, and the hazy recollections suggest people had some fun...

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Rejected Cartoons

2007-10-26T10:03:00.000-06:00

My sister Rebecca sent me this. If you watch the whole thing, you'll be my new best friend. This guy cracks me up.

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Mmmmmmn, classy.

2007-10-21T17:52:00.001-06:00

From Axe. File under 'subtle advertising".

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Faub.org Party Time.

2007-10-19T17:44:00.001-06:00

Faub.org creative Aid and Pleasure Club PARTY!!

Saturday, November 3rd 7pm - til

Barrister's Gallery
2331 St. Claude Ave at corner of Spain St.

DJ Joey Buttons and DJ Brice Nice spinning
Psssst..Pass It On plus other multimedia

For more info, pls visit www.faub.org

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