What? Not grinding employees to the bone 10 hours a day?

Tapping the Creativity of Downtime
Web-Design Firm Uses Projects Employees Pursue in Their Spare Time at Work to Help Win New Business

These guys clearly don't have MBAs or they'd know this isn't working for them...

So he and his co-founders decided to tell employees they could pursue their own interests in their downtime, doing just about whatever they wanted, on the clock.

Yirmumah

Yirmumah

So great - I ordered one immediately "a robot and a drago playing kazoo"

Will Draw Anything

Remember that kid in the back of the class who would draw anything and usually get sent to detention? Well now he’s all grown up… kind of.

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) on Vimeo

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) on Vimeo

I laughed, I cried. So great.


Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

JellyTelly.com

Check out Phil Vischer's new JellyTelly project...

JellyTelly.com

"We've just posted the "official" JellyTelly demo video for all the world to see at www.jellytelly.tv. It's a 28 minute video where I explain the concept behind our new mini TV network and then show some sample programming. "

Retro Gaming on real backgrounds - Fubiz™

Retro Gaming on real backgrounds - Fubiz™

Fun images of retro games w/ real-world backgrounds!

Software Integrity � Blog Archive � The Dreyfus Model - Back In The Spotlight?

Software Integrity � Blog Archive � The Dreyfus Model - Back In The Spotlight?

Interesting video and thoughts in the video. I like the idea of letting coders staying coding and not move to teaching or managing to increase their value/salary.

MagCloud

MagCloud

Can't find a good magazine? Make your own!

Thinking Animation Blog: All My Base Cake

Thinking Animation Blog: All My Base Cake

Great blog and this post is a home run.

Open Resources

Open Resources

"This website is for churches worldwide to download and use an entire library of creative materials - absolutely free. Materials include sermon audio, countdowns, promotional design graphics and opening videos from a wide variety of message series and churches."

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds

"Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends."

Is LOST a spin-off?

10 Free Web-based Alternatives to Photoshop

10 Free Web-based Alternatives to Photoshop

I use Gimp. It may not be "quick and easy" like the others, but it's good and free.

Happy Birthday, G.K. Chesterton!

Happy Birthday, G.K. Chesterton!

Great quote:
“You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.”

Photo recreations of kids’ drawings � Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

Photo recreations of kids’ drawings � Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

I think the site was overloaded when I went to view it, but here's the blog where I found it.

FilmCow :: Videos and Animations

FilmCow :: Videos and Animations

I only watched "Charlie the Unicorn" 1 and 2. The first one, I read, is by far the most watched original animation on youtube.

Funny stuff. It's not offensive, but despite the name, it's not a kids video. FYI.

Rom�n Cort�s � jpeg2css

Rom�n Cort�s � jpeg2css: "It takes a black and white jpeg and returns an html copy of the image created with text and CSS, just like homer was. Enjoy!"

MicroExplosion Media: Winning by Losing

MicroExplosion Media - Blog Archive - Video of the Week: Winning by Losing

I'm glad to see some people are getting attention for doing something good.

Horror: Internal Microsoft Vista Video is as Painful as Videos Get

Oh, I wish this hadn't been made... or that I hadn't watched it...

Horror: Internal Microsoft Vista Video is as Painful as Videos Get: ".' Seriously, how did this little slice of cringe-inducing embarrassment ever get made?"

Urgency is poisonous - (37signals)

Like in so many cases, people doing really good things do it in really cool ways. On the other hand, sweat shops usually churn out ho-hum junk by really unhappy people...

Urgency is poisonous - (37signals): "So far our four-day work week experiment is working. We haven’t found ourselves collectively wishing we had an extra work day a week. We haven’t found ourselves gasping for extra hours. Instead I feel like we’ve been more focused and working better together."

Alice.org

Alice.org

Learn how to code while making games and 3D animations w/ a graphical interface and have fun. A great way for kids to learn.

I believe Alice 2.0 uses Java and characters the Sims 2 game.

The head guy for this, Randy Pausch, was diagnosed w/ cancer in August and gave a great speech about his life.