Radiodread – Let Down

Have you ever wondered what a reggae version of Radiohead’s “Let Down” would sound like? Surprisingly, not bad!

Toots & The Maytals – Let Down mp3 (temporary link, posted 8/31)

Stream the entire Radiodread album here.

Starbucks retracts their free iced coffee offer

Today Starbucks withdrew their offer for free iced coffee. The offer was ridiculously generous:

“Stop by your neighborhood Starbucks Coffee between noon and 9 pm for a complimentary iced grande beverage. One Grande beverage per person per visit with this email. Please print and present this email to your Starbucks Barista…Expires September 30, 2006. Barista, please use discount code 113.”

That’s free iced coffee every day for over a month at any location. In San Francisco we have something like 300 Starbucks (OK, I exaggerate – it’s only 112), so I could have gotten an unlimited supply of iced coffees for the next month.

According to the article,

In a statement, Starbucks said the offer “has been redistributed beyond the original intent and modified beyond Starbucks’ control.”

That redistribution included me. The PDF coupon was emailed to just about everybody in my office and I expect that my office wasn’t the only one sending this thing around. For the record, I got my free iced coffee yesterday at my local Starbucks in San Francisco.

Definitely a candidate for the next edition of Business 2.0’s Dumbest Moments in Business.

Flickr’s new Geotagging Service

I’m loving Flickr’s new geotagging service. And apparently a lot of other people love it too. According to Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield, 1.2 million photos were geotagged in the first 24 hours. Click here to see my geotagged photos. Click on the pink dots to see the photos.

2006 Emmy’s – Opening Sequence

Conan O’Brian visits the sets of popular TV shows. My personal favorite: Conan – screenname conebone69 – caught entering a house on another edition of DateLine NBC’s “To Catch a Predator”.


Part 2 here.

More fun with Zooomr portals – tour of SF

First, click here or click on the photo shown below. This will take you to Zooomr. Then place your mouse over the photo to find the portals. They appear as rectangular outlines overlaid on the photo. It will take a few seconds for the portal to appear as an image within an image. Clicking on the portal will give you a more detailed view. Do this again on the next photo. Eventually you will get to close-up detail on several San Francisco landmarks such as Coit Tower, Palace of Fine Arts, and Alcatraz.

Note:

It appears that Zooomr portals does not work with Internet Explorer. It works best with Firefox.

Golden Gate Bridge Hosted on Zooomr

Diggnation – Dude

Dude – do you watch Diggnation?

Trying out Zooomr Portals

Zooomr has a cool new feature called portals. Click on the photo below and then hover your mouse over the photo and click on the portal to zoom in on the statue or look to the left.

Legion of Honor Hosted on Zooomr

Shooting at Fort Funston

It’s always fun to read about a crazed gunman shooting random people at a place that you go to every weekend to walk your dog.8/23 Update:

Here’s an update with details on the shooter and status of the victims.

Obadiah Parker – Digg effect

The video of Obadiah Parker‘s acoustic cover of Outkast’s Hey Ya was posted on YouTube over two months ago. Yesterday the video was featured on Digg’s front page and the popularity of the video has sky rocketed overnight. The video has been viewed 139,707 times as of today and the band (currently unsigned) was mentioned today on Spin magazine’s blog.

8/22 Update:

Here’s another example of the power of Digg. Someone uploaded a video called Slowest Man on Earth to YouTube. After two months of decent traffic (about 8,000 views), the video’s popularity went through the roof after it was dugg to Digg’s video front page. As a result, the video was featured on Good Morning America.

Ricky Gervais faux training video for Microsoft UK

If you’re a fan of the British version of The Office, make sure to check out this faux training video that was done for Microsoft UK. By the way, Season 3 of the Ricky Gervais podcast is available starting tomorrow (8/22). Unlike most other podcasts, this one is not free, but it is definitely worth the money.

8/24 Update:
Microsoft is not happy about this video being leaked on to the internet.

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