I had a dream about this! Will write a post about it latter on! Man we must have ESP! They going to run out of food one day and eat each other!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
I am in a small stinky hotel in Shenyang! paying 10 usd a day with a computer in my room! The dumb Asses do not know what country is Israel. Time for war China! LOL
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
"Oldboy (Hangul: 올드보이, the phonetic transliteration of "old boy") is a 2003 South Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook. It is based on a Japanese manga of the same name written by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya. Oldboy is the second installment of The Vengeance Trilogy, preceded by Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and followed by Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. The movie follows the story of Dae-Su who is locked in a hotel room for 15 years without knowing his captor's motives. When he is finally released, Dae Su finds himself still trapped in a web of conspiracy and strangeness. His own quest for vengeance becomes tied in with romance when he falls for an attractive sushi chef."
- Steve Isaacs
from Bookmarklet
all the revenge themed movies by this director are disturbing. (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Lady Vengeance, Old Boy) great though. not recommended for everyone
- Rodfather
via boingboing.net They used to have the most wonderful variety shows in the 70s. Enjoy this gem while I go out and buy "The Best of the Johnny Cash Show". ...
- Bonnie Dean
via dailymail.co.uk I always believed in dying with dignity. And if I leave this mortal coil with as much dignity as Terry Pratchett plans to, then I will die a happy woman. ...
- Bonnie Dean
John Hughes passed away yesterday and the news made me sad and a little melancholic.You see, I was in my teens in the 80s and watchedFerris Bueller's DayOff, Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles in themo ...
- Bonnie Dean
[Subject line:] Roll deeper into her [And to make it even weirder, this was the body of the email:] Power up your gun and conquer ladies' hearts ...
- Bonnie Dean
Date received: August 2, 2009 Profile name: ACondor "Good looking guy would like to meet nice white woman in Toronto. I'm a happy person looking for good moments
- Bonnie Dean
Communicating mundane messages to employees is one of the tasks that has been made harder for internal communicators by the adoption of Web 2.0 capabilities on internal networks. Consider, for example, the communication of a benefits enrollment deadline....
- Bonnie Dean
Me too! I camped out on Ticketmaster like a crazy fan, refreshing every half second until tix went on sale for the show near my house - paid off with 2nd row seats...w00t! Screw throwing your underwear onstage...throw yourself onstage! :D
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
With more people losing jobs and benefits, the essentials of last year — that eye exam and the dental checkup — might seem frivolous. In February, Statistics Canada reported the national capital region lost 7,200 jobs, while 35,000 jobs were lost in...
- Bonnie Dean
I hate survival horror games. Probably the ten minutes of Condemned I played before I happily relinquished the controller.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Wolfenstein 3D with my new Soundblaster 16-bit stereo sound. GUTENTAG!!!
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Doom II. Played with a headset on late at night and jumped more times than I care to admit. Also, Bioshock has some really, really good creepy moments early in the game.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Doom III was pretty cool, some great moments in that.. Resident Evils were great.
- Tim Hoeck
I tend to relish the feeling of adrenalin when something happens in a survival horror game. Silent Hill I, the original Condemned and F.E.A.R. were all good at that. Even Day of the Tentacle had its moments, though. Nothing scared quite as much as when I thought I had lost the RAID volume layout on the 8-disk PowerEdge POD at work back in 1998 though. *shudder*
- Phil G
It would have to be Bioshock and Condemned. I was absolutely terrified of Condemned and could only play for about 20 minutes before quitting.
- Angel Smith
Alone in the Dark - based on Lovecraft.
- Bonnie Dean
Ooh, Space Hulk nearly made me cry ... when I was 17! o 0
- Timothy Griffin
Oh man, I forgot about Eternal Darkness! That one scared the tar out of me! Angel - Condemned does a fantastic job of ratcheting up the tension and keeping it at a really high level. The scene where the dressmaker's dummies suddenly surrounded me made me jump out of my skin.
- Phil G
I think I mentioned this elsewhere, but playing the human in Aliens vs Predator is scary, especially when your motion tracker starts going.
- Kol Tregaskes
Doom 3, definitely. I couldn't handle the constant adrenalin rush.
- Darren Barefoot
Wolfenstein 3-D. EDIT: First 3-D Game? Stereo sound? Layed the ground-work for any other game you can think of in this context including Doom and Quake.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I second the human campaign in AvP (that would be my #1 pick). Also Doom 2 (with the music off) and Resident Evil. Bioshock got me, when that one slicer is standing behind you as you turn around. Any cramped spaces in Fallout 3 with ghouls gets me.
- Rob Haas
Alien vs. Predator Gold on PC... Doom 3 as a close 2nd.
- Nathan Chase
this does not surprise me. i have spent a lot of time in industrial companies and email is the most advanced tech that has traction. can't even get secure sharepoint sites to get traction with execs!
- Jeff DiStanlo
Were you surprised? It amazes me how few people (in general) know about these....especially Twitter.
- Vinny
I am not surprised. The day these and other such folks get onto social media, social media will be passe ;)
- A. Prem Kumar
People don't know about Twitter?! What!
- frank barry
Ya i suspect by end of 2009 it will have hit mainstream consciousness, but still obscure now.
- Brian Carter
not surprised. even some of my friends in tech doesn't know twitter
- AJ Batac
I just can't believe it. Do these people live under a rock?
- Happy
It would have been a surprise if they had. Good job Robert is on hand to spread the word.
- WorldofHiglet
There was a seminar on social media and communications in Toronto last night and a few people had never heard of Twitter, either. Is it really surprising or are we just to immersed in it?
- Bonnie Dean
It took me years to get around to wanting to use Twitter. I read about it regularly at Coding Horror (ex: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog...) for at least a year but I just didn't see the point. I finally registered because I wanted to reply to a friend's tweet. I think for a lot of people it's more of a reticence to join social networks than plain technophobia.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
This is not surprising. Recall that John McCain does not even use email. And I am sure most, if not all, of these "top" executives are part of McCain's generation.
- Joe Lima
I haven't touched Qik/Seesmic/Kyte because I can't work out the difference. Not surprised most won't have heard of them or Twitter
- Luke
Robert, send them an invoice for innovation consulting! ;-)
- masa media - Martin
Make a list of top execs who do know about social media.
- stefan hyttfors
Not Surprising, I'd consider myself fairly Tech savvy and although i've been registered for ages i only just started Tweeting. Although given the publicity it's had in the last few weeks i'm slightly surprised.
- Jamie Vidamour
but i guess they know about Facebook ? well, i think twitter is more for more tech people
- Junal Rahman
Do you think their assistants know about those technologies? My understanding of CEO responsibility is that they have to think on a super broad and strategic level. Many of those technologies are about integrating tiny pieces of information into something bigger. Since that's not really their job, I would think those services would be off the CEO's radar until they have an impact at that high level. Right?
- David Wynn
from fftogo
Our CMO @BestBuyCMO relayed a similar experience at a CMO dinner he was one or two of 10+ who knew about the tools and he certainly was the top user of them.
- Ben Hedrington
It's not surprising, if you think about it, but it's still unfortunate. Top executives are hardly "the mainstream" and if they're not in tech or marketing, those types of communication are not foremost in their minds. I know one chief exec. of a Fortune 1000 company who still has his "important" emails (as determined by his assistant) printed out and put on his desk every day.
- Robert Clockedile
from twhirl
This does not surprise me in the least. Yes, awareness is growing but anyone who assumes that our social media world has "made it' to mainstream is unclear on the concept.
- Cathy Brooks
from twhirl
I've never expected top executives to have a clue about anything. They're just a figure head for the company. They pay others around them to do the grunt work.
- Chris Luckhardt
What a surprise!! Here in Brazil I've asked to my friends and coworkers and nobody knew about Twitter. Well, some of my friends don't even check e-mails account daily...
- Flavio Knopp
it goes to show that twitter, kyte, friendfeed, etc... haven't really hit the mainstream yet... user adoption will always be a problem no matter what platform or software is out there.
- Dejim Juang
What is the point of Twitter, Kyte etc when hundreds of thousands of people are losing their jobs and we are in global economic crisis? Don't these top execs have bigger issues at hand? Are we drinking too much social media coolade in these times?
- Andy Oliver
Dejim: I would not consider 30 executives not knowing about Twitter to equate to these services not being in the mainstream. It you ever worked with "top" executives, you'd be amazed by how much "mainstream" knowledge they really lack.
- Joe Lima
That's not suprising. I still have to ask "Do you know what Twitter is?"
- geekazine
from twhirl
I'm doing a Social Media 101 seminar in a few weeks for entrepreneurs who haven't touched linkedin.com, facebook, or twitter. Seminar is full. We'll likely do 2 or 3 more. I'm not surprised at your group's ignorance.
- Shelley Cadamy
I'm a publisher in medical technology market data and I continue to be stunned at how much behind the tech curve my audience of medtech companies is. Their rate of adoption of social media, like their adoption of new information technologies, lags at the same rate as physicians, who are traditionally slow to adopt any new technologies other than medical technologies.
- Patrick Driscoll
Top *executives*? No surprise there, unless they're *tech* executives. Gates or Dell not knowing would be worrying, but should a boss at Exxon or Rolls-Royce (the aero engine company) know or care any more than we'd know or care about distillate refining or FADEC aero engine controllers?
- James
I don't think we are drunk on social media when we say that in spite of the downturn and maybe because of it, we need to look at the enormous possibilities of social media at the very least as a brand loyalty mechanism(ie I am more apt to subscribe to products from companies/ people that I have a more intimate relationship with).
- Phillip
The other issue with non tech executives not tuned in is their reluctance to accept ideas that don't have a direct and obvious connection to ROI. I have to admit (and I'm not blowing my horn) that during the pre-internet heydey, I felt like Tom Hanks in "Big" raising my hand to say, "I don't get it". Then, I couldn't understand why website traffic mattered more than revenue.
- Patrick Driscoll
Recently, I spoke with a colleague of mine, a university professor of linguistics known as geek. I asked if someone is studying tweets' peculiar language and style from a scientific point of view. "Twitter?" he said, "Microblogging? never heard before". A geek, they say. Well...
- PaperDoll
There's a whole tendency in social media toward rapidly accepting what's at the front edge of development, while at the back end, product managers, sales/marketing and other grunts are just struggling to hit their numbers. They don't live and breathe the latest info tool -- they live and breathe their own product.
- Patrick Driscoll
OK, I'm hogging the airwaves, but one last point. When I look at new medical technologies emerging in the market, I have to bring in two very important perspectives: the opinion-leading early adopters (docs at universities or highly visible MD-consultants to industry) and the regular practicing physician working in the trenches of daily care. Social media evangelists would have me pay much more attention (I'm simplifying a bit) to the opinion-leaders.
- Patrick Driscoll
I can understand that they don't know about Qik or Kyte, even I don't and I spend a lot of time on Twitter and FriendFeed...
- Odi Kosmatos
I don't think that social media is so important that everyone MUST take part in it. If I had more of a life (was a busy doctor or exec.), twitter and friendfeed would be the last thing that I would do in my spare time -especially twitter.
- BEX
Ok, twitter might be something they need to know, but Kyte? Qik? Far too early for both of them to be at executive level of a non-tech company.
- Steven Cains
Carol Bartz doesn't use Flickr and she's Yahoo's CEO. Her daughter does use facebook to post photos though.
- Thomas Hawk
Our organzation is doing well w/Facebook with more plans for expansion after receiving demographics that show a high number of professional level participants and 30 and up crowd. I always considered FB for kids.
- R. Ferguson
I can belive Qik and Kyte. But Twitter. That is tough. Of course my CEO doesn't know what SEO is.
- John Flynn
Robert, that does seem strange. But then I see smaller co's. and non-profits jumping into Twitter, FB,etc. faster. My theory is because start-ups and NP's are open to the pool of university student volunteer workers, interns, and beginners out there who are more saavy in this area.
- Melanie Reed
Maybe it's the name...? Maybe they would prefer using something called The TwitCorp Group
- Catherine Ventura
robert - did you talk to them about zoho, zocdoc, gomobo, freshbooks, etc ?
- Allen Stern
They must not have any kids... or watch CNN <grin> Nice one, Catherine - love The TwitCorp Group
- Cheryl Allin
from twhirl
OMG there's a world OUTSIDE of Twitter and Soc Nets?! :P
- Mona Nomura
cmon mona you should know by now that in the valley there are only a few products that can be talked about outside the valley by those inside the valley - scoble just doing his job :) ha!
- Allen Stern
And to think, we just had an amazing tweetup in the Raleigh area last night of more than 200 tweeps. Triangle Tweetup was awesome.
- Angela
Non-tech CEOs is not surprising. However, depending on the kind of executive not knowing at least 1 like Twitteer may be troubling. For example if they are media companies or telecom companies then that is a more troubling thought than say the executive for a manufacturing company. Ultimately the lack of knowledge is a reflection of the type of talent they recruit and how that impacts their corporate culture now and in the future.
- Altan Khendup
Did those same guys also show ignorance about Facebook- then we will know that we live on different planets - google,facebook,twitter are all helping to re-shape the way we communicate with each other- rgds- hiro bachani- http://www.merlin-me.com -Merlin Magical Gadgets
- hiro
Amazing how a generational gap can preclude users from a given technology. I bet none of their friends are on Twitter either
- Jameel
Unsurprising to me. I think the only interesting item might be how a company without a revenue model continues to raise money! In *this* economy, that is a story.
- AJ Kohn
The elementary school I work at has started to hear about Twitter. It is going mainstream very quickly.
- MarkCarras
My fiancée has heard of Twitter and she does her damnedest to avoid all this high-fallutin' technology.
- Chris, Without Direction
Not a good mood if you want to build up goodwill and awareness of your brand. I mean, unless you're McDonald's or something.
- Mike Nayyar
very small % of top exective in japan knows twitter either.
- Yasuyuki Goto
Do they need to know? Is twitter going to get them out of their problems? Maybe their marketing managers do know?
- santiromero
Why would they know or care about Twitter, Qik or Kyte? What's the business case?
- Francine Hardaway
did they know about facebook - for global mainstream business leaders that at least should be known?
- mike "glemak" dunn
Using our difficult economic circumstances to dismiss the tools of Web 2.0, be it Twitter, Facebook, or something else is to embrace the status quo. And if you hadn't noticed, the status quo isn't working. Web 2.0 offers a unique opportunity to reach out to customers, be they current or would-be customers, and engage them in a way previously not possible. As for me, I work for a...
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- Lee Allgood
did they know about computers? how about the internet? ebay? facebook? trying to quantify the time lag between reality and executives.
- Dino
not surprising....met an IT guy at Panera on Monday who never heard of twitter or microblogging...now that's scary
- Brian Appleby
does that say something? twitter and all these things are not the most essential parts of businesses. these things are fun but there's lots of people i know who have no idea about twitter. people who invest so much time and effort in these things have to realise this.
- Terry O'Fee
when things get really really tough these "social media experts" in the businesses will be the first to get the axe, sadly.
- Terry O'Fee
what is more significant/startling... that some do not know about twitter et al, or that some know and do not understand the value either personal or business wise? and believe me i know plenty people who know about twitter et al and just do not get the value. nor the point. which tells me social media is in its infancy still - we all know that of course. then again it took me 2-3 years to figure out email way back when ;)
- Pascal Bouvier
the value of twitter? i know lots of successful businesses who would never even look at this kind of stuff. it's not as important as a lot of you people think.
- Terry O'Fee
You people? Who you calling 'YOU people'.
- Chris Saad
Thats the problem. You NEED to look at it before you understand its value, both for personal use and as a corporate tool.
- jcunwired
you people = the people who think the world would end if twitter shut down tomorrow...
- Terry O'Fee
This post is a complete and utter déjà vu for me. Robert, did this happen another time upon which you posted a very similar statement. For a second there, I thought FriendFeed glitched and reissued an old entry. Maybe I'm just tired.
- Micah Wittman
seems that twitter will have 30 more users.
- pala
Um. I work under people who thinks blogging is new and uncharted territory. I'm in marketing.
- myron
nonsurprising.. some of my teammates don't know about twitter. none of them know about qik. and i never heard of kyte!
- Ihar Mahaniok
Sex Is Not a Major Priority for Most Men - Asylum | Men's Lifestyle | Humor, weird news, sex tips, fashion, dating, food and gadgets - http://www.asylum.com/2008...
"An active sex life is not one of the primary things most men cite when asked to assess their manliness or quality of life. The Journal of Sexual Medicine interviewed 28,000 men in Europe and the Americas and found, when assessing their own masculinity, that males between the ages of 20 and 75 ranked "honor" and "getting respect from their peers" ahead of having success with the ladies. The survey also found men rarely make mention of sex when rating their quality of life, instead overwhelmingly citing heath, a harmonious family life and being in a good relationship with their partner. Of course, this whole thing could be a trick to get women in bed."
- Noah David Simon
from Bookmarklet
It's hidden in the text, folks. What do you think "Getting respect from their peers" means? ;-)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I have no opinion beyond the fact that women's behavior could factor in here big time. I know when I was a teen I was hornier then a rabbit till I found out what feminist cunts were.
- Noah David Simon
no it doesn't. Cunt can also mean a man like aMANdaCHAPel. besides nothing beats the rough stuff... though not all the time. hence the infrequency
- Noah David Simon
"Honor" and "getting respect from their peers" are both tantamount to "I want to be appealing to women so they'll want to have sex with me".
- Eric P
interesting juxtaposition, but I think women are attracted to rebels. which is why my sex life has always been good. I'm not an ass kisser. chicks get turned on by that shit. doesn't make me friends though
- Noah David Simon
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
- Bonnie Dean
BS no Sex my brain stops working! I am 46 years old and still active! LOL
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Clive Owen in Closer; Ed Norton in The Painted Veil; early Gary Oldman. A kooky list, I know.
- Donna Mugavero
Christian Slater, Hard Harry Hardon, Pump up the Volume.. reminds me so much of podcasting. That is if I had to pick another male. For pure comedy value it'd have to be Pee Wee Herman! ;P
- alphaxion
I know this is television, but House.
- Bonnie Dean
the lead man Ryan Reynolds plays in Definitely, Maybe. or Just Friends.
- Krista K
Robert Downey Jr. Tony Stark. Iron Man.
- Krista K
Taye Diggs in How Stella Got her Groove Back & Matthew McConaughey in Contact.
- Admiral Anika
My wife really is in love with House, too. I don't get it.
- Bret Taylor
+1 Abby. I love just about all the male leads on TB. Lafayette in the gold thong, FTW.
- Derrick
Oh yeah, Jack Shepard from Lost. I'm loving that action too.
- Derrick
Sayid is hot, but conflicted, and his taste in women (the whiner) kinda sucked. OK: Edward Norton's character in the Painted Veil: huzzah!
- anna sauce
Ew, none of the guys in Lost. Well, Jin got hot once his hair grew out. Curly-headed Koreans FTW!
- Admiral Anika
Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting, and if we're talking Lost I'm going to say a probably unpopular one -- Charlie Pace.
- heather ♥s fauns on mars.
King Namor, the Sub-Mariner. Just think how agile and strong he must be; unlike regular human males, this guy has THREE ways of getting around: swimming, flying (with tiny wings on his ankles, even), AND walking...and he does all three well! And being a comic book character, you know they draw him very well-formed!
- MiniMage - HLtW
Gary Oldman, Sirius Black, Harry Potter's Azkaban ;) From Lost I teeter between Sawyer and Jack. Sawyer's a bad boy with a heart of gold but Jack is a doctor with a dark side....
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Jude Law as either Alfie in Alfie or the Gigolo robot in AI or Andy Garcia as Vincent Mancini in The Godfather III
- Jennifer Marie Sandbank