A friend of mine recently discussed the new Green Lantern trailer. Sure he was enthused about the movie, the effects, the scope, but he was also enthused about Ryan Reynolds. The enthusiasm my friend felt for Ryan Reynolds was an admixture; he felt Reynolds was both charming and looked great in his underwear. My friend is not the only person to comment on a level of sex appeal in the Green Lantern Trailer, leaving me to the conclusions that this is both intentional and that Mr. Reynolds is someone who will make more of us feel inadequate in our underwear in the years to come.
News Of The Day 1/28/2011
MAJOR NEWS:
For those of you not following, Egypt has been largely or mostly taken off the internet – an analysis is here. The massive Techememe roundup is here. This is huge and is something all of us need to follow – geeks and nongeeks, progeeks and regular.
- The sheer human factor
- It is historical.
- It will affect government and technical policies all over the world.
- It will likely result in snake-oil solutions and scams we need to watch.
Twitter has already stated it's support for free speech
Demographics/Demogeekness:
How social structure relates to success – an interesting post that also suggests just why Silicon Valley did better than other areas. This article focuses too much on the "Midwestern attitude" (which I actually think isn't as prominent as the author thinks), but the overall picture is fascinating, focusing on social clusters. Frankly, I think the social clusters ARE a big success because being in Silicon Valley, it definitely is A) a culture, and B) surprisingly connection dense – which you can experience quite differently being an outsider.
Economics/Geekonomics:
At the Davros meeting Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan says banks should be allowed to fail. I think a lot of the world's financial elite are feeling the heat if he says something like this.
Publishing:
Ebooks outselling paperbacks at Amazon? I'm in no way surprised.
Technology:
Did Steve Jobs out Japan Japan? A fascinating analysis (plus some analysis of Sony that is compelling).
Adobe versus Apple? Not when cash is on the line, so Creative Suite 5.5 is going to have iOS, Android, and other development tools.
Video Games:
Sounds like the NGP has interested people in the gaming industry.
Frustration Friday: Go Do It!
Dear people who are waiting for the right time to start their business, change their career, etc.
Do it. Just do it. Shut up and do it for the god's sake.
I meet these people all the time – people that may be like you. I know these people. Bright, creative, amazing, imaginative. I can't even think of anyone I know that I'd consider boring and unimaginative right now.
These people, these wonderful people, you the reader out there, need to stop waiting to live your dreams. You, your dreams, are too interesting, to good, too strong, to you to let go to waste.
You say the economy is bad? Look we don't know what's going to happen, so live those dreams as they probably give you a better chance to survive this bad economy.
You say you're not ready? If you wait for the perfect time it will never come. Perfection doesn't work, perfection is an illusion, a foundation of sand in the middle of a hallucinated mirage (how's that for nutty metaphor?)
You say your skills aren't up to it? Then go learn. There are books courses and mentors to help you learn.
You say your idea won't sell or you can't get a job – if so why have so many others done the same thing?
Do it. Shut up and do it. Make that dream come true.
Then tell me about it and I'll interview you and you can share your amazing adventures with everyone else and inspire them to do more amazing things too.