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Kinect Hacks, Microsoft, And Consumer Experimentation

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So how many ways can people do bizarre and unusual things with the Kinect?

The Kinect seems to be getting hacked left and right.  Yet, it seems beyond some of the pornographic elements, Microsoft is saying very little about this.  This leads me to two conclusions I'd like to discuss.

(And, yes I could joke about a Microsoft product being hacked, but that's serious low-hanging humor fruit).

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Review: Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization

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Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
By Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright
# ISBN-10: 0061251305
# ISBN-13: 978-0061251306

PROS:

  • Provides a researched system of classifying organizations and businesses as "tribes" that is easy to apply.
  • Has useful ideas for helping people "tribe up" and improve their relations and improve organizational relations.
  • Very readable and understandable.
  • Doesn't pull punches on some of the conclusions.

CONS:

  • Some historical interpretations are arguable.

SUMMARY: Buy this book and read it unless you have no interest in community, leadership, and business.  In that case you're probably not even reading this blog.

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A Geek Icon’s Web Page

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Jeff Bridges is one of those understated geek icons – in many geeky films (Tron for the gods' sake), but also calmly going along and doing his thing.

His web page is a fount of awesome, and one of the most unique personal/professional pages I've seen.

Go and experience it.

– Steven Savage