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Funniest line of the day from Chris Anderson:
We finally figured out what Marxism is good for.

Dion Hinchcliffe suggests some ground rules for social media:

1. Communication in the form of conversation, not monologue.

2. Participants in social media are people, not organizations.

3. Honesty and transparency are core values.

4. It’s all about pull, not push.

5. Distribution instead of centralization.

Massively Multiplayer Online Games seem to be attracting Mass Media Money. Mark Kern, president of Red 5 Studios says:

The definition of MMO will change – the line will blur. It will be really hard to tell what is and what isn’t an MMO. There will be a lot of experiments in convergence between social networking and MMOs. Five years from now a social networking site without a 3D universe will look like a dinosaur.

Jeez, don’t we already have more than enough Dinosaurs?

This article cracked me up:

A 43-year-old German decided to settle his imminent divorce by chainsawing a family home in two and making off with his half in a forklift truck.

Looks like he took the splitting of items in the divorce literally. I love it.

Via Dora of PunchThePineapple, I found this commercial from Gudang Garam celebrating Christmas 2006 and New Year 2007. Dora says:

They guy with long hair is a famous choreographer from Bali. The graphics and images they used are nice! especially the scenery and props. It shows the other side of Indonesia which we don’t normally see or rather hidden. i word…. BEAUTIFUL!!!!! Yes, i’m from Indonesia =) (in case u don’t know)

I don’t know the words, but these sure are Pretty Pictures!

We run an older version of QuickBooks and the only version of QuickBooks that works on Windows Vista is QuickBooks 2007. We didn’t really want to upgrade QuickBooks so I created a work around so that I can access QuickBooks 2003 while in Vista. Here’s what I did:

1. Downloaded Virtual PC 2007 for free from here.

2. Booted to Vista and installed Virtual PC 2007

3. Setup a Windows 2000 Pro virtual machine

4. Setup Virtual machine on network

5. Installed QuickBooks on the virtual machine and connected to network data

6. Created shortcut on my desktop to my newly created virtual machine

That was it. Now when I want to use QuickBooks while in Vista, I open my virtual machine and there it is.

If anyone is interested here is a good article explaining why the previous versions do not work with Vista. It looks like QuickBooks is killing their brand with the slow performance of new products, forcing upgrades by not supporting older software, and by not taking steps years ago to get their product up to date. I guess they really should change their name to SlowBooks.

Via PingMag we meet Troika:

Our approach focuses on the contamination between the arts and design disciplines and is born out of the same love for simplicity, playfulness, and an essential desire for provocation.

Wikipedia:

In non-fiction material, a paragraph starts with the main point, followed by sentences with supporting details. The non-fiction paragraph goes from the general to the specific to advance an argument or point of view. Each paragraph builds on what came before and lays the ground for what comes next. Paragraphs generally range four to eight sentences all combined in a single paragraphed statement.

Washington Post:

Under editor Skip Foster, the Star last spring began abandoning the paragraph story form for a barebones rundown that simply lists who, what, when, where and why an event happened. The Star’s front page on the morning after November’s midterm elections, for example, displayed only one succinct headline, “Dems Dominate,” and no stories. Instead, the page explained three local races in bite-size info-nuggets.

Skip Foster: For many readers, the paragraph is a dinosaur.