Prince recently played a cover of the Radiohead song “Creep” at the huge concert festival “Coachella.” Since Radiohead won’t play the song anymore, it’s good to see that somebody is still playing the song as it’s such a great one. Well… after the concert Prince talks to his people and starts having them take the video off the internet. Flagging it as copyrighted by the owners of the content.

The problem with this, is that Radiohead owns the song since they wrote it, even though Prince performed it. Radiohead’s lead singer Tom Yorke wants to see the video and he wants the video to be spread around the internet. So in a funny, or forward thinking artist, twist Radiohead is telling Prince’s people to stop blocking the video and to let it live online and let people see it.

Funny that the person who owns the copyright wants it distributed, and that the person who doesn’t have the rights to pull it off the series of tubes that is the internet is trying to get it yanked.

You can’t find the videon on YouTube, but there are a few versions floating around. Hopefully the video embedded above will continue to work.

Yahoo News Story

My new, makeshift, power cord… for tonight at least.

I came home a little early today after picking up my car from the shop. After working for awhile on my laptop it was time to grab my power cord as the battery was low. After realizing I forgot the key piece to connect my Apple power supply to the wall I was a little worried I would be without my laptop for the rest of the night (Not a problem if I wasn’t downloading something, but well, you know).

Luckily I was able to remember a post I saw on Gizmodo a few months ago and was able to take another power cord, shave off a little plastic and use it for a makeshift extension cord for my macbook pro. Yes, the ground is a good safety, but when you’re in a pinch this works.

For the full instructions check out this blog post by Brian Lam.

Watched So You Think You Can dance last week and caught this guy who is just crazy. Check out the video and enjoy.

Basically the coolest coffee table ever.

I saw some pictures of this table earlier in the night, but figured it was just a table that let you push the buttons.  I was wrong, this table is an actual working NES controller!  Pretty amazing.

To bad it won’t work with my newest videogame obsession, Mario Kart Wii!

via: BoingBoing

That’s a value of $36,000 to $47,000 to help open doors for more students to attend Stanford.  Yes, it’s a tough school to get into, but knowing that there is an attainable goal  seems like it could have a huge impact on kids that  are worried about even being able to pay for school if they do make the grades.

Nice work Stanford!  I’m really looking forward to seeing how this changes other school’s policies on tuition and how that affects how hard students start working in high school.  I know that many high schools are trying to motivate kids from less affluent areas to work towards getting into good colleges.  Knowing that school could possibly be free seems like the perfect incentive.

Mercury News Story

Since this movie is shrouded in mystery, I will leave it at this…

GO SEE CLOVERFIELD! (If you like exciting movies.)

Well, I opened it up to find out what was inside during this holiday season… and to my surprise it was a marketing gimmick with three Starbucks Double Shots inside.  Something about how I can get fast service from AT&T, when I buy my new HP computer, I don’t know I didn’t read any of the packaging.  Just took out the Double Shots before deciding that this is something that I could and should blog about.

This seems like a very expensive mailing, but maybe I fit the right demographic.  I have purchased an HP computer before (7 years ago), I do have a large phone bill sent to me monthly from AT&T, and could it be possible for them to purchase my name from when I registered my Starbucks card?  Well, I’m not going to be buying an HP laptop anytime soon (although, they do recommend Business  Vista) but I will definitley enjoy the more than $5 in free Starbucks drinks.

If you want to see the pics of the box being opened check out the rest of the entry.

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I hang the majority of my shirts, and one of my least favorite houehold tasks to do is laundry, particularly the folding and hanging of clothes after they’re out of the dryer.  Check out what I learned to do today and how I will be folding the rest of my shirts from here on out.  It’s kind of like 7 minute abs, but if someone comes out with 6 minute abs I will switch to the new shirt folding method.

Enjoy.

VideoJug: How To Fold A T-Shirt In 2 Seconds – Explained

Are you hooked?

• Wakes up at 4:30 am and works out.
• Doesn’t have a driver, likes the solitude of driving himself.
• Writes personal notes to Disney talent that he hasn’t met before.
• Be punctual. (My favorite. He will start meetings on time even if people aren’t there.

I love reading interviews and articles like this. It gives a small snapshot into these executives lives and helps motivate me to work harder as well as ways to become more successful. Seems like someone should put these together in a book. With all the self improvement books out there I wonder if I could get 10 minutes with high level CEO’s to create my own book or series.

Would you pay $19.95 for a book about how the very successful live their daily work lives? I would.

How Bob Iger works