mad dog in the fog

• Wired News: Straight Dope on the iPod’s Birth
  Traces the history of the iPod
  (tags: apple ipod innovation design)
• The new Sony BRAVIA commercial
  An incredible display of exploding paint
  (tags: advertising)
• Making of the new Sony BRAVIA commercial
  Behind the scenes of the new Sony BRAVIA commercial
  (tags: advertising)
• Ariston “Aqualtis” commercial
  The coolest washing machine commercial that you will ever see (via Pogue’s Posts). In case you’re wondering, the music in the commercial is “Ask the Mountains” by Vangelis.
  (tags: advertising)
• museumr
  Display your photo in a museum
  (tags: flickr photos fun)

Fun with album cover art (sort of NSFW)…

• Newsweek > ‘Good for the Soul’
  “With iPod’s fifth birthday around the corner, Steve Jobs discusses the MP3 player’s design, the cool factor and the impact on how we listen to music.”
  (tags: design innovation apple ipod stevejobs interviews)
• SFgate > A’s After the ALCS
  Who will the A’s bring back next year?
  (tags: mlb baseball oaklandathletics a’s)

• NY Times > Wallflower at the Web Party
  Why Friendster failed
  (tags: entrepreneurship vc)
• How do you pronounce Pujols?
  I had to laugh at this.
  (tags: humor mlb baseball)
• The Amazing YouTube Tools Collection
  (tags: youtube)
• YouTube > The Album Leaf Mini-Documentary
  An 11 minute mini-documentary documenting the making of their latest album - Into the Blue Again.
  (tags: music video)
• Carson Workshops > The Future of Web Apps
  Presentations and MP3’s from the recent Future of Web Apps conference
  (tags: conferences web2.0)
• SJ Mercury News > A’s bow out, and are just that respectful afterward
  “The A’s were the lesser team on the field. But off the field, they were the picture of dignity. And in this era of sports, that is a kind of victory.”
  (tags: mlb oaklandathletics)

Here’s another video from The Album Leaf show that I attended at Mezzanine last weekend. One of the cool things about their live performance is the accompanying background video. Warning: The audio is pretty rough on this video. Check out Hype Machine for a preview of this track, which is called Outer Banks.

Well, it’s over now. The A’s were outplayed by the Tigers and their season is over. Milton Bradley was one of the few bright spots for the A’s in this series. He batted .500 in the four-game series, had 35 % of his team’s total bases (17 of 48), and he played hurt during the final game (strained quad). Tip of the cap to the Tigers who played great fundamental baseball, had outstanding pitching, and got the timely hits. And they did all of that with a low payroll.

• Colbert on Demand
  (tags: humor video)

The A’s were smacked around again by the Tigers today and they are on the verge of being swept out of the playoffs. This quote from A’s third baseman Eric Chavez really bothered me:

“We’re running into a better team, and they’re knocking down everybody in their path,” A’s third baseman Eric Chavez said. “It’s not frustrating, they’re better than we are.”

That is absolutely the wrong attitude, even if you are down 3-0. Save the concession speech for when the series is over.  Eric, you should be frustrated with the way that your team has played.  Very frustrated.  There’s some heated discussion about this ridiculous quote on Athletics Nation.

• CellarTracker
  Track your wine collection
  (tags: wine)
• Wine Library TV
  A wine tasting video podcast
  (tags: wine videoblog)
• MappyHour
  Good Happy Hour deals on a Google map
  (tags: bars googlemaps)
• One True Media
  New service for editing and sharing video
  (tags: videosharing videoediting photosharing)

I went to ALCS Game 1 on Tuesday. More photos on Flickr.