Rethink(IP): TGIF Archives

Post-Thanksgiving Invention Funnies

Posted by Douglas Sorocco at November 27, 2006 05:17 PM

Need a little humor going into the end of the year and holiday season? Once again, YouTube comes through like a champ - Invention Funnies compiled from the DailyShow.

The video may not be exactly work-safe (it is the DailyShow on Comedy Central, afterall) - but if you have a headset and your monitor faces away from the door, let a little levity into your life.

Don't say I didn't warn you - don't have a mouth full of coffee in your mouth while watching this. You will spray it all over your monitor.

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Friday Fun - Fall on me

Posted by Douglas Sorocco at August 18, 2006 09:12 AM

So, it is hotter than a frying pan in Oklahoma, dry and everyone is a bit cranky – we are looking forward to fall weather.

Since we have been a bit quiet here on RTIP lately, new projects to be released soon, let’s kick off a renewed sense of blogging with some fun.

So… have a great weekend and … Fall on Me…

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A Blog for Everything - A Little Break from Rethinking

Posted by Douglas Sorocco at May 6, 2006 01:22 PM

Blogforeverything2 There truly is a blog for everything out there… I am thinking of running a little contest – can anyone tell me where this image came from?

Put your guess in the comments and, if correct, you will win a fabulous prize (of course, the exact prize you will win is…to be determined…)

Good luck!

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Shadow Blawg Review

Posted by Douglas Sorocco at March 26, 2006 06:38 PM

Donald_bad_boy Well .... we were …bad …. bad … boys a couple of weeks ago.

It seems that our little experiment to shake up Blawg Review was met with mixed results at best. While we received a large number of "thank yous" and well wishes — at least one blogger called us lazy (although it is hard to figure out how to lazily jump the shark – trust us, we probably spent more time discussing whether we should do it than most people spend actually putting the review together).

Another blogger chastised us for not standing by our original decision – i.e. we posted the remainders at Blawgr. We decided to post the rest of the entrants over at Blawgr in order to start a discussion – an idea which appears to have fallen short. Apparently, law bloggers don’t like to discuss things in groups.

We apologize - we are truly sorry for any upset our rethinking caused. We thought it might be useful to scale back Blawg Review a little bit and make it more pertinent.... but we know how much y'all like your links, so we are going to pay some pennance and share some linking goodness with y'all this week.

Now, we haven't cleared this with "Ed" - so, we await your love, scorn or indifference alone and without the armor of Ed's cloak. So... without further ado, we give you all the law related links that we could find in the blawgosphere this week:

Continue reading "Shadow Blawg Review" »

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TGIM - You Know you are old when....

Posted by Douglas Sorocco at January 16, 2006 05:28 PM

Hair Straightener Vending Machine

… You have absolutely no idea why women would want a hair straightener when they are out and about.

Via the Popgadget blog comes the Hair strenghtener vending machine

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Reinventing Rethink(IP)?

Posted by Douglas Sorocco at December 28, 2005 10:15 AM

I am thinking about reinventing Rethink(IP) – I hope Matt and Steve don’t mind….

Instead of posts, I am now going to do all my posting in podcast format – and they are going to be mimed!

Here is a great post…

…. wow, I am tired out now. Mimeing is really hard work!

I hope you enjoy the new format, let me know what you think.

— Douglas

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My RSS Aggregator Scared Me

Posted by Douglas Sorocco at August 15, 2005 09:02 PM

It's not really Friday, but I missed a few the past month or so - so I will take a personal perogative and post a TGIF on Monday.

I was scared of my RSS aggregator - really, I was terrified of loading up FeedDemon and being bombarded with RSS feeds, thousands of unread posts, and watchlists with more entries than I could count.

Since I basically took the last two weeks of June and all of July off from blogging and reading RSS feeds, it was all there waiting for me. An entire summer of tablet PC, droning legal analysis and "productivity" posts staring me down. Simply mentioning the word RSS made me break out in a cold sweat. I was a bad bad blogger. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.

I avoided looking at the aggregator's icon when searching for other programs. I could imagine my aggregator speaking to me: How dare I ignore it - didn't I know how important everyone's words were? Didn't I need to keep track of all the legal bloggers? Wasn't I afraid of "missing it" - the next best thing in legal blogging? Everyone was reading great things and I was being left in the dust. What was wrong? Didn't I know what I was missing?

I looked into the dark abyss and my aggregator was staring back at me.

Thing is: I really didn't care. I read a couple of books - printed on paper, not eBooks. I drove around going to estate sales and garage sales looking for antique tools to rehab. I painted a room. I watched foreign movies and spent too much time obsessing over Blues albums.

So, this evening I screwed up my courage and started up FeedDemon and cleaned everything out that was older than a week. Poof -- 45,000 posts instantly gone. I could almost hear their cries - "nooooo..... I'm melting."

As it turns out - my aggregator didn't come after me. I am still alive and there isn't anyone waiting behind the bushes outside my house to beat me senseless. It felt good - it felt liberating.

So, for now the score stands:

Abyss - 0
Douglas - 1

What was I so scared of in the first place?

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Rethink(THIS!) - Paris in the Springtime

Posted by Douglas Sorocco at June 13, 2005 07:04 PM

Fat_paris_carls

Sometimes a little rethinking can go too far!

Via Adrants

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Rethink(THIS!) Eyeballs in Phones are Creepy

Posted by Douglas Sorocco at May 24, 2005 12:20 AM

I’ve missed a couple of TGIFs – those of you who are not late night tv-a-holics, let me just say that this is one of the best TV to Web commercials I have seen.

Creative. Very creative. Eyeballs in telephones. Creepy. Very creepy.

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Did they really say that?

Posted by J Matthew Buchanan at May 20, 2005 09:37 AM

Its Friday. Let’s have some fun.

Here are some famous quotes about technology. The person behind each and every one, as I think you will agree, would have benefited from a little rethinking before uttering their famous quip:

This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” – Western Union internal memo, 1876.
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” – Lord William Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.” – Orville Wright.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?” – H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.” – Pierre Pachet, professor of physiology at Toulouse, 1872.
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?” – David Sarnoff’s associates, responding to his interest in investing in radio in the 1920s.

These are my two absolute favorites:

Everything that can be invented has been invented.” – Charles H. Duell, commissioner of the U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” – Ken Olsen, president of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.

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TGIF - Oops, I keep doing it again...

Posted by Douglas Sorocco at April 29, 2005 06:18 AM

Another week and another Friday. This one has been a long week.

I have been getting a lot of “harassment” from the other rethink’rs about my rants that I like to go on from time to time. In fact, I think I heard Matt say the other day “Oops. There he goes again.”

So – I thought a little Oops music and video might be in order:

“Oops, I did it again” – Weimar German version.
“Oops, I did it again” – Louis Armstrong version.
“Oops, I crapped my pants” – Aging version.
“Oops, nothing ever changes” – FedEx version.

Any other “Oops” items I need to know about?

Thanks to Andrew Sullivan for the music pointers. Have a great weekend!

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TGIF - A Rethink(IP) Milestone Moment

Posted by Douglas Sorocco at April 22, 2005 09:00 PM

I wanted to slip a TGIF item into the mix before Friday comes to an end.

Well it has been another week in rethink(IP) history and we reached a momentous milestone TgiFridays_250 event today — our first “legitimate” search engine referral! It came courtesy of MSN search (which has a great RSS search feed service, by the way) and was on the ever popular and o-so-appropriate searchterm….

….. drumroll please ……

“TGIF Franchise Information”

What? Our first search engine referral is for a TGIF franchise? Yikes – and to think, we didn’t have our flair on today. Anybody got any smiley face buttons we could wear around here?

Oh well — have a great weekend!

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