Notes for 7/19/2010

After a small accident yesterday I spent four hours in the emergency room, finally getting home just after midnight with fourteen stitches in my hand. Not surprisingly, that meant I didn’t post my weekly notes. Here they are:

• A recent article in the New York Times said that the government should step in to regulate Google. Search Engine Land has some great satire about that.
• Great write-up on the Old Spice “Smell like a man, man” campaign, with those wonderful commercials featuring Isaiah Mustafa “on a horse.”
• Congrats to Calgary-based SMART Technologies for the successful IPO!
• The visualization I was waiting for! World Cup 2010 on Twitter.
• Quite a discussion has taken place about YMCA’s new logo! I kinda like it, but apparently it’s not coming to Canada just yet.
• This is just ridiculous: The State of Oklahoma is concerned about kids listening to audio files “designed to induce drug-like effects” because that might be a gateway to actual drug use.
• I generally don’t understand articles like this one, but I enjoy reading them and stretching my brain muscles anyway: Was the Universe Born in a Black Hole?
• Here is cognitive surplus visualized. Time spent watching TV versus time spent creating Wikipedia.

My parents are in town this week. Looking forward to seeing them!