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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Absolutely stunning in both the delivery of the message and the twist itself. “Shocking Anorexia vs Boulimia” is a brilliantly presented advertisement and definitely delivers the message well.

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If you want a video about the passion of making ‘Web Apps’ instead of the business of it, this one is for you:

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Taken by ~C4Chaos, original Flickr photo here.

Taken by lauralei, original Flickr photo here.

Taken by threed, original Flickr photo here.

Taken by adobemac, original Flickr photo here.

Taken by rubyran, original Flickr photo here.

Taken by chrisilstrup, original Flickr photo here.

Taken by Steve Roe, original Flickr photo here.

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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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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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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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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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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Now I can’t show the client’s layout here as I’m under NDA but I managed to reduce the entire image size to a third of it’s size by simply switching from JPG to GIF images. Found it amazing that I got such a drop in size from a simple switch in file format.

Anyone got anymore success stories to share?

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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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