serendipity

Lego Art (not really an oxymoron)

I love this.

It makes me feel like if I had just a few more bricks, I could make something almost as cool (perhaps not). And it totally justifies my occasional desire to build things with only one or two colors. (Yes, I play with Lego, but you expected that.)

Almost everyone knows what it feels like to build with Lego bricks (blocks? I never know) and for me, that is part of the charm of this guy's work.  Most of us end up constructing walls. Big giant enormous walls - and towers - with windows. Those of us with more talent (and tenacity) buy kits and build the things that Lego has told us is possible. 

This guy has taken Lego a few steps further.

I wish I could touch it.

Gray

 

 

Yellow

Interview with the artist (and more photos of his work) is here. His personal web site is here.

Too bad for me the actual show is in Illinois...

And the winner is...

Webware 100

Ok, we haven't won anything yet but LeapTag is a finalist in CNET's Webware 100 in the Browsing category and for our little company that is a big honor.

Not content with becoming a finalist, we have our sights set on making it into the top 10.

The other companies in our category are Goliaths: Yahoo, Google, Firefox, NetVibes, StumbleUpon and Flock -- and many respectable others. You can read about the nominated companies in our category here.

To make it into the top 10, we need your help.

And the help of all of your friends. :-)

Spread the word and vote for LeapTag!

 

Testing

 

Testing LeapTag's new publish function

Here are some results from my social networking tag. Twitter still seems to dominate the news.

• Test drive: micro-blogging services
  Insert clever comment about micro-blogging replacing normal blogging

• Twitter Mashups and Tools
  More cleverness

• 10 Social Networking Sites You May Have Not Yet Heard Of
  Running out of clever things to say

• Typepad Pages
  A total non-sequitor

• Twitter glitch leaves 'private' users exposed to the world
  oops.

• Mobile Networking and Socializing
  

Discovered using LeapTag

My very favorite thing as of this very minute (subject to change)

Red Fire Bar

Dark chocolate with ancho and chipotle chili peppers and Ceylon cinnamon.
Mmmmmm.

A little something to make you think

 

I know, you don't want to think.

I don't want to think either. 

But you should watch this anyway.

Choose your language to start the video.

I found it riveting.

This girl can sing

You see this girl?

This girl is my neighbor* Rachel and she can sing.

I like her sound a lot.

I think you will too.

Check her out here.

 

 

*My Vox neighbo r, which is how she can live in Paris and I can live here and we can still be neighbors.

Interfacial relationships

I read this yesterday in Time Magazine. The same topic was discussed recently on a TV morning show and on the radio today.

The gist is this: forget interracial, gay, may-december, etc*. relationships, as long as we marry within our own level of cuteness we are OK. But no marrying above or below our own personal levels of beauty.

You got that? Good, 'cause I bet you're going to see more stories about it. If we're really lucky (no, not really) we'll start seeing blog posts and essays about the trials and tribulations of being involved in interfacial relationships. Before you know it, there will be self-help books and three-day seminars that teach us how to deal with the fact that one spouse is cuter than the other. I smell a multi-million dollar industry ahead.

Our ability to collectively distract ourselves never ceases to amaze me.

 

 

* insert personal definition of ridiculously controversial marriage here