By Tom on Dec 20, 2008 in Fun Stuff | 2 Comments
Just taking a break from Christmas music, digging out of the foot of snow and getting ready for a family dinner — Great song from the Muppets, a way back playback, Time in a Bottle with the Old Scientist.
Tags: ads, muppets, throwback
By Tom on Dec 18, 2008 in Business of Entertaining | 4 Comments
Bootstrapping and Angel.
Given the recent market climate for more ’secure’ investments – its becoming more clear that Venture Capital, as an industry, will need to reform. Will Silicon Valley see the same meltdown as Wall Street? Probably not, however, a key point is must VCs are busy supporting existing investments rather than looking for new [...]
By Tom on Dec 18, 2008 in Personal Development | 2 Comments
To follow up with a post I did a while ago – Tony Robbins with a TED Video.
Seems like Anthony Robbins just launched a free training blog at tonyrobbinstraining.com
There are numerous quick videos on there, all with great quality.
Happy viewing.
Tags: AnthonyRobbins, training, development, clarity, focus, executive training, entrepreneur training
By Tom on Dec 17, 2008 in Thought of the Week | 2 Comments
~ Jesse Jackson
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By Tom on Dec 17, 2008 in Business of Entertaining | 2 Comments
Today Lineboil.com posted the Top 10 Christmas Animations – check it out and lemme know what you think… It’s similar to ColdHardFlash, but we’re covering ALL animation – stop-motion, CGI, traditional and all other world-class animation we see.
Lineboil.com was founded by Aaron Simpson, who previously founded the popular animation website ColdHardFlash.com. Simpson is also an [...]
By Tom on Dec 17, 2008 in Business of Entertaining | 6 Comments
The central bank opted to lower the federal funds rate to a targeted range of between zero and 0.25%. That’s the lowest level on record, going back to 1954. Does it really mean anything? Not really, the market has priced in 0% for some time, now the US Fed has finally caught up.
NOW, the interesting [...]
By Tom on Dec 15, 2008 in web2.0 | 2 Comments
Within 100 days of launching Chrome – Google has lifted the BETA tag from the product.
On the Google Blog, Chrome is listed to have reached more than 10 million active users around the world (on all seven continents, no less) and released 14 updates to the product. We’re excited to announce that with today’s fifteenth [...]
By Tom on Dec 15, 2008 in Fun Stuff | 0 Comments
An Iraqi journalist flung his shoes at Dubya as he addressed a news conference in Baghdad — “”This is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog” reporter Muntadhar al-Zaidi yelled as he hurled the footwear.
Throwing shoes at somebody is a supreme insult in the Middle East. Iraqis whacked a statue of [...]
By Tom on Nov 2, 2008 in Business of Entertaining | 1 Comment
It’s been eight long years since the boys said wassup to each other. Even with the effects of a down economy and imminent change in the White House, the boys are still able to come together and stay.
So kudos to the boys – and “Change, that’s what’s up, Change”!
Here is the original Budweiser version is [...]
By Tom on Oct 27, 2008 in Getting Started in the Game Industry | 2 Comments
The Video Games Industry is a very exciting field to plan a future career in! The Industry is constantly growing, it remains very profitable and more importantly, with the recent economical events experienced throughout the world – the industry does not seem to be slowing down (people will always need entertainment). My name is Tom [...]
