Dove Evolution ad about our concept of beauty
Found this amazing video on Renee Blodgett’s blog. Just another example of how we are subtly manipulated by the media and corporate marketing.
DVD Pick Of The Week – “Weeds” Series One (2005)
How come I have not heard of this show before??? My man in Carmel, Steve the Witness, forced me to watch this today and it is brilliant TV. Here’s the set-up for “Weeds“:
After her husband’s unexpected death and subsequent financial woes, suburban mom Nancy Botwin (Mary-Lousie Parker) embraces a new profession: the neighborhood pot dealer. As it seems like everyone secretly wants what she’s selling — even city councilman Doug Wilson — Nancy is faced with keeping her family life in check and her enterprise a secret from her best friend/PTA president, Celia Hodes.
I got hooked on Mary-Louise Parker when she played Amy Gardner in West Wing and it’s great to see her get her own show, especially something as brilliant as this. If you haven’t checked it out, do it.
Tech Support – Adobe Audition
I just installed Adobe Audition 1.5 on my laptop (I usually use it on my desktop) and and I’m having trouble exporting to mp3. Everytime I try the resulting file is about 300mb. I’ve spent 30 minutes tweaking every setting I can find and nothing seems to help. Any bright ideas?
The 20 Minute Rule
I’ve had a few people send me this article in the NY Times recently so I thought it was worth linking to. With my recent theme of how limited the funding options are in Australia, a lot of people were asking me “why can’t you get US venture capital from Australia?”
Meet the “20-minute rule†that guides fateful decisions in Silicon Valley. Craig Johnson, managing director of Concept2Company Ventures, a venture capital firm in Palo Alto, Calif., who has 30 years of experience in early-stage financings, said he knew many venture capitalists who adhered to this doctrine: if a start-up company seeking venture capital is not within a 20-minute drive of the venture firm’s offices, it will not be funded.
