Failure, and the failing failers who respect it- February 20, 2008 I couldn't agree more, Brad (and Mitchell). Suppressing fear of failure is one of the things that's kept me honest as an entrepreneur over the years. That doesn't mean I enjoy failing; its like hugging a cactus. But there's something liberating and inherently healthy about missed achievements, boneheaded mistakes, and commercial pratfalls.In fact, failure may be the first sign youve finally broken free from a silent, stifling routine. See where it leads you next.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/itCameFromBlackBackground/~3/238208642/failure-and-failing-... Amish Exploitation Alert- February 19, 2008 Saw a TV ad for this on ESPN during a basketball game. Not sure about the demographic targeting at work here, exactly: Heat Surge: The Authentic Roll-n-Glow Electric Fireplace.No Photoshopping at work here:Now, my favorite part of the TV voice-over was this line: "Made of solid wood!" Wow! Solid wood. That's honest attention to detail youll find hard to come by, I immediately thought to myself.There are probably are actual skilled Amish woodworkers putting these cases together. The ham-handed...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/itCameFromBlackBackground/~3/237286830/amish-exploitation-a... Links for 2008-02-17 del.icio.us- February 18, 2008 Asus Maximus Extreme and P5E3 Premium - HotHardware maybe this boardhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/itCameFromBlackBackground/~3/237202875/mshobe I'm calling Ziggy on Leo Cullum- February 17, 2008 If the New Yorker editorial staff were to ever deny offering staff cartoonists a lifetime pass for back-referencing their own material, Ive got damning evidence to the contrary. Im Calling a Ziggy on Leo Cullum for this one. Its not even close to subtle. If I had seen a series of similar cartoons throughout his archive, I would let it go; every artist is entitled to variations on a theme. But this one just feels lazy. Leo is one of my New Yorker favorites. He's consistently clever and his...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/itCameFromBlackBackground/~3/237202876/im-calling-ziggy-on-... Solving for the new MINI- February 12, 2008 Q.E.D.:MINI Clubman = (FJ_Cruiser - enviroGuilt) YourKarmaGoingIn(Tip o' the hat to JZ for pointing this new MINI model out.)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/itCameFromBlackBackground/~3/237202879/q.html Just in time for the heart of the Big Tean basketball season- February 5, 2008 I come upon one of my all-time favorite media clips from the interwebs, captured for posterity at YouTube, naturally:The first time I encountered this was around 1998; someone posted it as a WAV audio file to a Usenet newsgroup, and I suspect we had to piece it together manually from several consecutive encoded posts. Funny what a difference ten years makes.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/itCameFromBlackBackground/~3/237202880/just-in-time-for-hea... |