Crazy Orchestra | Som Sabadell

headspace | 75 Years of LSD

Today marks the 75th anniversary that LSD was synthesized by Sandoz Industries. On November 16, 1938, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann created LSD as part of a research program searching for medically useful ergot alkalod derivatives. [LSD] [History of LSD]

Keep On Keepin' On | Seth Godin

Seth Godin often relates some excellent life and business advice on his blog.

These are my favourites:

• Organization vs. movement vs. philosophy. Trouble is when you think you have one but actually have the other.
• Building a job vs. building a business. Building the gig is the gig.
• Interesting & Interested. The two ways one earns attention.
• How to get a job with a small company. The rules are different than trying to get a job with a Fortune 500 company.
• Insulate yourself. ...and other snippets of advice.
• The sad irony of selfishness. The connection economy multiplies the value of what is contributed to it.
• Meeting vs. Making. Making demands results while meeting leaves room for excuses.
• Doing it wrong, relentlessly. Working the system, or not.
• Three masters. Choosing successfully demands consistency in action and goal.
• How to make money online. 21 points that apply to more than just making money, or to making it online.
• How to run a productive meeting. Everyone going to or chairing meetings should read this and take heed.
• The simple power of one a day. Molehills to mountains, with suggestions.

And as an added bonus, here is a fantastic Seth Godin TEDtalk. I recommend watching all three.

Respect | Lest We Forget

DULCE ET DECORUM EST

 

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,

Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,

Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs

And towards our distant rest began to trudge.

Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots

But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;

Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots

Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!---An ecstasy of fumbling,

Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;

But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,

And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime...

Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,

As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,

He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace

Behind the wagon that we flung him in,

And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,

His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood

Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,

Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud

Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,---

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest

To children ardent for some desperate glory,

The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est

Pro patria mori.

by WILFRED OWEN [wikipedia]

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Crazy Actor | David Leys "3 minutes to a proper English accent"

Thanks, haha.nu

Crazy Filmster | 10 Habits of Starbucks Drinkers

Crazy Filmster | Bad Lip Reading "Medieval Land Fun-Time World"

Crazy Artist | Nando Costa "The New America"

You need to read the Open Culture post from whence this film was purloined. A short teaser of why this is important: Portlandia; Fred Armisen; Pacific Northwest; Laser-etched maple wood blocks and stop-motion animation; Kickstarter. Need I say more? [OpenCulture]

Good Rawkin' | The Matinee "The Road"

The Road from The Matinee on Vimeo.

Spiderweb Software "Avadon 2: The Corruption"

To be clear: I'm posting this without having yet purchased or played this game. But I am going to purchase and play this game, and you should too. I should clarify some more: if you are a story-driven gamer that "grew up" long enough ago that you recognize retro-style genius game-play and don't need total-immersion high-definition graphics to have an enjoyable experience... like me... you should purchase and play this game.

And for the record, you probably should purchase the other games Jeff Vogel of Spiderweb Software has available. The company was founded in 1994, and I played my first game of his -- Exile -- not long after. Whenever it was included on the (now defunct magazine) Mac Addict shareware CD, whichever issue it came with, was my first exposure.

Something was fishy, because I was hooked.

I even ordered one of the "tip books" that was available to help the ess-than-brighters among us (such as me) walk through the expansive game. Call me a fanboy if you will, but I'll wear the title unabashedly.

Back to the matter at hand: Avadon 2: The Corruption has been released.

Jeff talks a bit about the release in his (always entertaining) blog, The Bottom Feeder. [BF]

It's available from the Spiderweb Software store, the Mac Game Store, Steam, Gog... and probably elsewhere soon. [SSS][MGS][STEAM][GOG]

And in case you're not totally convinced, download the demo... these are always huge, and pretty much worth the asking price on their own!

For fun, here's the game trailer: