our thinking for October 2006…

1. October 30th, 2006

   Brain teasers

   OMSI is a great place to spend a few hours on a rainy day, which is what the kids and I did this weekend. My Dad was in town, so we knew we’d have to go somewhere and do something. As we headed back downstairs from the Science Playground, we saw this little exhibit hidden under the escalators called Brain…

   posted by Stephen Landau

   thinking about… Inspiration

2. October 25th, 2006

   Songbird

   “Songbird™ is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox®, it is built from Mozilla®, cross-platform and open source.”Kind of goes along with the previous post about Firefox, but only kind of. Watch the video above, or view their larger screencast on the Songbird website.The part about…

   posted by Stephen Landau

   thinking about… Inspiration

3. October 20th, 2006

   NW Barista competition

   (photo from CoffeeGeek.com)This weekend features some of the best baristas in the Northwest competing for a spot at the United States Barista Championships. What could be better than combining art and caffeine? Of course I’m rooting for some of Portland’s finest… take some Stumptown beans and turn them into magic.Learn more at: www.nwbarista.com. And learn some of the tricks of…

   posted by Stephen Landau

   thinking about… Events

4. October 18th, 2006

   Free Hugs

   Why? Because maybe, just maybe, communication with words just doesn’t mean quite as much as communication with emotion.ps. If you can turn your sound off, I’d recommend it. For me, the music ruins the message.

   posted by Stephen Landau

   thinking about… Inspiration

5. October 16th, 2006

   Tanner Springs Park

   This weekend’s family field trip took us first to REI for some quality outdoor gear, then to Tanner Springs Park on the way home.A bit of information about the park…”A series of community workshops were held between January and June 2003, allowing citizens to participate in the design process… the public was asked to submit suggestions for a permanent name…

   posted by Stephen Landau

   thinking about… Inspiration, Life and Culture

6. October 12th, 2006

   Second Life, perfect hair

   Iain Tait had this clip from YouTube on his blog that gives an overview about Second Life…(This video was apparently put together by “the first PR agency in Second Life,” which makes sense for them to put out a video promoting both their agency and their presence in Second Life.)I don’t know… it all feels so… “virtual” to me. I…

   posted by Stephen Landau

   thinking about… Inspiration

7. October 9th, 2006

   Columbus Day

   Not wanting to get into a big political debate about Columbus “discovering” the New World, this effect on the Native American population, etc., Seth Godin has a nice post about “Lessons Learned About Columbus.”

   posted by Stephen Landau

   thinking about… Inspiration

8. October 6th, 2006

   The unintended experience

   An “unintended experience” is pretty much impossible, as anything you do results in some kind of experience, but that’s what it felt like when the family and I visited the “Dahlia Capital of America,” Swan Island Dahlias, located in Canby, Oregon.We’re talking fields and fields of dahlias. I didn’t even know this many varieties existed. There were ones that looked…

   posted by Stephen Landau

   thinking about… Inspiration, Life and Culture

9. October 6th, 2006

   Pi music

   Math rock? Use this nifty interface to put pi to music. I can’t remember from music theory what kind of scale I used, but its some kind of blues scale. Rocked out to 500 digits of pi… only 9,500 left using this thing.Or, if you’re up to it, you could recite it to 100,000 places.

   posted by Stephen Landau

   thinking about… Inspiration

10. October 4th, 2006

    One apartment and six drummers

    I’m sure this will be all over the place by the time I post it, but parts of it made me chuckle out loud. For the next time you have five friends over… (mixing it up from YouTube for a change…)

    posted by Stephen Landau

    thinking about… Inspiration