1. Music Lessons

    Seth Godin just posted a rare video of himself doing a full presentation. This presentation is on the music business and takes place at Columbia Records.

    The video messes up around eight minutes in, but is a fantastic listen in the background. If you haven’t read or don’t own a book by Seth Godin and are serious about business, I suggest you go about buying Purple Cow and giving it a read.

    Update: Seth has taken the video down due to it stopping itself eight minutes in, but has placed up a PDF transcript of the talk online which is well worth a read.

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  2. Inspiration, a fortune cookie special

    Everyone needs inspiring from time to time, and one of those great times is being surprised by a fortune cookie when having a meal. The following are cropped versions of Flickr photo’s and I have provided credit underneath each one with a link back to the original source to meet their respective creative commons licensing.

    Look deeply within to root out negative attitudes
    Taken by ~C4Chaos, original Flickr photo here.

    Generosity and perfection are your everlasting goals.
    Taken by lauralei, original Flickr photo here.

    Soon you will be sitting on top of the world.
    Taken by threed, original Flickr photo here.

    The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.
    Taken by adobemac, original Flickr photo here.

    You have an ambitious nature and will make a name for yourself
    Taken by rubyran, original Flickr photo here.

    It doesn't take guts to quit
    Taken by chrisilstrup, original Flickr photo here.

    You discover treasures where others see nothing unusual
    Taken by Steve Roe, original Flickr photo here.

    If you want the rainbow, you have to tolerate the rain.
    Taken by hollyQQ , original Flickr photo here.

    Can you find anymore inspirational fortune cookies? Post them in the comments for all to read :)

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  3. Truely inspiring Adidas advertisement: Never lost heart

    Adidas advertisement: Never lost heart
    (Click here to view the full sized image)

    The advert reads “14 stitches, neck operation, fractured shoulder, haematoma to right arm, appendicitis, lacerated kidney, torn abducter muscle, knee ligament damage… never lost heart. Impossible is nothing”.

    It is based on the English rugby fly-half Jonny Wilkinson who kicked the winning field goal for our world cup win in 2003. And his determination to come back against a mass list of injuries.

    Jonny Wilkinson recently played again for the first time for England after 1,169 days of time out from injuries in the 2007 Six Nations Championship game against Scotland on February 3, 2007. He scored 27 points in that game (a record in the Calcutta Cup) and was awarded Man of the Match.

    Truely inspiring.

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  4. Absolutely brilliant and inspiring use of Typography

    Typography example

    I just found this through Digg and was amazed by the use of Type by this designer. Instead of linking to the digg source (blog spam) – I’m going to send you to the original artist’s page and his particular gallery that has his use of Typography.

    Thomas Broome – Typography gallery
    The website of Thomas Broome

    I’m a big big fan of typography and it’s great to see people still doing it as well as this guy :)

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  5. BBC revamps their sports video/audio player

    New BBC Sport video/audio player
    Click to view the full sized image

    It looks great, it’s certainly less like the BBC we are used to. Whoever they’ve hired to re-design the select parts of the site that are appearing re-designed in recent weeks – they’ve made the right choice.

    My only niggle with BBC at the moment is their absolute faith in the Windows Media Player.. if they could provide a Flash based player (I don’t care if it’s Microsoft Live based or not) so I could watch things on my mac without using Parallels – that’d be great.

    Gonzalez is really tearing into Nadal… maybe Murray took it all out of him.

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  6. Happy 65th birthday Muhammed Ali

    Muhammed Ali

    A selection of quotes from the greatest boxer to ever step into the ring. As to inspire a whole new generation of people into becoming the greatest in whatever field they may choosse to go into.

    “Don’t count the days, make the days count.”

    “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”

    “I don’t always know what I’m talking about, but I know I’m right.”

    “I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.”

    “I’m gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain’t going to die easy.”

    “I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‘em out, I pick the round.”

    “I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.”

    “I’m the best. I just haven’t played yet.”
    (When asked about his Golf game)

    “If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.”

    “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.”

    “The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”

    “I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”"

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  7. High definition and DVD quality: The difference in one simple page

    If your like me and have wanted to switch over to high definition but had no real idea why you really wanted to switch. Check out these comparisons of the Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring movie with DVD quality and HD quality pictures being shown :)

    Very nice differences indeed, to use roll over the shots to see the high definition shots :) Click on the shot to see the full high definition shot in all its quality.

    http://www.cornbread.org/FOTRCompare/index.html

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