by Minter Dial | Dec 25, 2007 | Entertainment
I have long been a fan of Stanley Jordan. Innovative two-handed finger-snapping guitar playing. I found this piece — via a blog called “Who Sucks” — with a scintillating rendition on guitar by Adam Fulara of Bach’s BWV 848. Don’t...
by Minter Dial | Dec 11, 2007 | Entertainment
In 1980, I remember very well how disappointed I was when Led Zeppelin’s Johnnie Bonham died. I had a ticket to Led Zeppelin’s open air concert in London which was subsequently cancelled. Well, that was the end of an era I thought. Of course, Led Zeppelin...
by Minter Dial | Dec 11, 2007 | Marketing, Travel
Got turned on to this Virgin America safety announcement (below) via Rohit Bhargava’s Influential Marketing Blog in his post humouristically entitled: the 12 important things he himself learned reading his own blog. The title is deceiving as Rohit invited 12...
by Minter Dial | Nov 29, 2007 | Travel
Okay, I admit that, since a newspaper is transportable, I will often read it a day or three later. Proof, this morning I discovered that King Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered “on this day in history” the 26th November 1922 by Howard Carter. My...
by Minter Dial | Oct 18, 2007 | Social Media
Information R/evolution. The Age of Information is in revolution or just evolution? That is the question behind this entrancing, 5’28 film by Michael Wesch (Assistant Professor at Kansas State University), posted on YouTube on October 13th. This is bound to be a...