!marty finestone's activitybook » website http://www.activitybook.org pursuing fun, creativity and good thinking with a vengeance Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:30:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 billboard is letting us watch concerts for free on their new site http://www.activitybook.org/2009/11/12/billboard-is-letting-us-watch-concerts-for-free-on-their-new-site/ http://www.activitybook.org/2009/11/12/billboard-is-letting-us-watch-concerts-for-free-on-their-new-site/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:36:11 +0000 Marty Finestone http://www.activitybook.org/?p=1176 Billboard has launched a new website, Billboardlive.com, to watch concerts for free. A nice plus is that users can select between 5 different camera views, including picking the band member/artist to focus on.

Right now the line up (e.x. Daughtry, R. Kelly and Imogen Heap) does not excite me in the least, but here’s hoping for a better roster roll out soon.

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Having a few extra minutes, I visited the site to see what the connection between a mobile phone, the pomegranate and coffee. What I saw was a site for a device that purports to market a new mobile phone/swiss army tool. It makes coffee (hence my initial thinking the newspaper add was for a coffee machine), it has built in harmonica and electric shaver and other tools (see very cheesy and not funny videos on the site). It’s only when you click on the ‘Release Date’ that this site’s true intentions are revealed.

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Click here to view the embedded video.

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via autoblog

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Via Pop Candy

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Congrats also to all the finalists in all of the categories. Best of luck for March.

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    “I’m having fun and writing specific incidental pieces of music,” he says. “I also have tons of music that I’ve made over the years that is more atmospheric or instrumental that would never find its way onto a record. So, selfishly, it’s a way for me to find a home for music that otherwise would never get listened to.”

source Reuters via c|Net

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    Since 1998, A & LD has been searching tirelessly for online articles that should be known everywhere, providing the links that make it possible for us to put them on our screens with a single mouse-click. The editors show a god-like way to find, in the most obscure places, material that pleases, surprises and stimulates their readers. Apparently not a sparrow falls, intellectually speaking, without their knowledge.

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shampoo

]]> http://www.activitybook.org/2007/05/16/vintage-advertising-posters/feed/ 0 bill cosby is picking up the green screen challenge http://www.activitybook.org/2007/04/19/bill-cosby-is-picking-up-the-green-screen-challenge/ http://www.activitybook.org/2007/04/19/bill-cosby-is-picking-up-the-green-screen-challenge/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:09:31 +0000 Marty Finestone http://www.activitybook.org/2007/04/19/bill-cosby-is-picking-up-the-green-screen-challenge/ Stephen Colbert did it and so did the Decemberists and Modest Mouse. Now Bill Cosby is getting in on the green screen challenge to the world-at-large to provide the backdrop for him. Cosby’s video is a fund raising challenge for every American to donate $8 to the U.S. National Slavery Museum. You can see some of the entries on youtube or visit the fund raiser’s site.

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]]> http://www.activitybook.org/2007/04/19/bill-cosby-is-picking-up-the-green-screen-challenge/feed/ 1 kurt vonnegut http://www.activitybook.org/2007/04/18/kurt-vonnegut/ http://www.activitybook.org/2007/04/18/kurt-vonnegut/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:09:29 +0000 Marty Finestone http://www.activitybook.org/2007/04/18/kurt-vonnegut/ As you may be aware, author and literary icon Kurt Vonnegut passed away last week. Stop Smiling Magazine published a wonderful and personal interview with Kurt in their August issue. Any fan of his will appreciate this piece.

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