The song in the commercial, while catchy-cute, is a little creepy.

thanks to @powerfm for posting the tweet/facebook status for the idea for the post. 89.7 PowerFM in Dallas is a great Christian Rock Station!

Hear Hannah preach it.

And while she might just be repeating what she hears at church, it’s still powerful nonetheless and I believe that her faith is stronger than some Christians I know. It’s obvious that her faith is strong because she believes it and does not see it.

“I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

And just another thought, from the Bible in Hebrew, Wikipedia tells us that the Hebrew word “Hannah” has many meanings and interpretations, including “beauty” and “passion”. I believe it!

For those of you who look at leadership articles periodically like I tend to do, like from some of the greats in good leadership (Tony Morgan, Michael Hyatt, Sam Rainer, & Brandon A. Cox), you may have come across this video.

This video is from Derek Sivers and a speech he gave at the TED Conference earlier this year.

The video contains an important leadership lesson:

A leader needs the guts to stand alone and look ridiculous. But what he’s doing is so simple, it’s almost instructional. This is key. You must be easy to follow!

Now comes the first follower with a crucial role: he publicly shows everyone how to follow. Notice the leader embraces him as an equal, so it’s not about the leader anymore – it’s about them, plural. Notice he’s calling to his friends to join in. It takes guts to be a first follower! You stand out and brave ridicule, yourself. Being a first follower is an under-appreciated form of leadership. The first follower transforms a lone nut into a leader. If the leader is the flint, the first follower is the spark that makes the fire.

– the above text was brought to my attention by Sam Rainer. Thanks for the link!

I found this great short clip above of Guy Kawasaki speaking about “the meaning of meaning” and making a difference in the world. He says ion the clip above that it doesn’t matter whether you are a business or a non-profit, small or large business, first focus on making a difference — not on ‘making money’ — and you will be a successful company.

I agree! I have worked before at a company where we began our day with a company meeting and then someone in charge finished the day, each day, with “Alright. Let’s go make some money.”… something about that just rubbed me the wrong way. while I agree that you should be focused on your company, making it successful — because that is what you are there for — let your focus be on doing good and then be successful out of that and not the other way around.

Much like Google, the billionaires they are, I feel do a lot of good and provide many useful services, many of them for free (email, online documents, phone/voice services, blogs, online calendars, photo programs, open source phone platforms, and of course online video sharing through YouTube) to name a few, and they are always developing new items and free updates all the time! — not that they aren’t making money on ads, but the service they provide makes us go to them again and again.

I hope this blog post make you think and helps you re-think why you do, what you do. If all you do is focus on the “Benjamin’s” then you might need to re-direct your thinking to a more positive direction on doing good for others above yourself.

Okay, so while I truly believe this to be a fake movie, this is pretty funny that people went to such great lengths to make a

movie trailer about the 80s video game that people played on floppy disk on pre-windows 95 computers. I remember those days!

The blog says you’ll learn nothing from the video game, and they are close to right… Okay, okay… maybe yo could learn something. I remember learning that when a  person get hypothermia that you don’t rub them to make them warm, you just strip them naked and get close for body heat.

Did you learn something from the Oregon Trial?

By the way, here is a 4th edition of the game Oregon Trail, for Windows or Mac, that you can get for $6.20 from Amazon.com.

Thanks Joshua Rogers for posting the link. Check out Joshua’s Spiritual Klutz Blog.

Steve Jobs may need to brush up on his lightsaber skills and enlist the help of a Wookie because Darth Vader doesn’t seem too pleased about the iPhone 4’s slew of reception problems.

Posted via AllTop’s Holy Kaw!

But I do say that I enjoy the geeky side in me that enjoy the classic Back to the Future movies. I don’t know, but watching this video just made me happy. Enjoy!

“Ke$ha’s annoyingly catchy ‘Tik Tok’ won’t die, thanks in part to clever mash-ups like the Star Trek one and this “Tik Tok to the Future.” Set to scenes from 80s flick fave Back to the Future, the pop ditty gives a fresh perspective on the residents of fictional Hill Valley.”

Full story at Mashable.

But here are some interesting fact, taken from statistics of the YouTube press center.

1. The very first video uploaded was called “Me at the Zoo,” on 23rd April 2005.
2. By June 2006, more than 65,000 videos were being uploaded every day
3. YouTube receives more than 2 billion viewers per day.
4. Every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.
5. The U.S. accounts for 70% of YouTube users.
6. Over half of YouTube’s users are under 20 years old.
7. You would need to live for around 1,000 years to watch all the videos currently on YouTube.
8. YouTube is available in 19 countries and 12 languages.
9. Music videos account for 20% of uploads.

And I thought this one very interesting:

10. YouTube uses the same amount of bandwidth as the entire Internet used in 2000.

Get additional fast facts about youtube.com here, or even some cool store items from the YouTube Store…. or if someone wants to get me this cool google maps shirt, I will thank you for 1,000 years.

“It’s time to hang up the nightly suspenders,” the famous host announced.

If I should say anything, they were more than just nightly suspenders, but very, very mighty suspenders indeed. Larry King Live holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-running show with the same host in the same time slot; in fact, it’s been a regular feature on the air for 25 years. It was also the first-ever worldwide phone-in TV talk show. King himself has been in professional broadcasting for 53 years, during which time he has conducted more than 40,000 interviews with celebrities, politicians, topical experts and others.

Understandably, news about King’s pulling the plug on his show created a significant hiccup in the social web. Let’s take a look at the topic as it trended on Twitter, Google and elsewhere.

First, here is a YouTube video showing King’s announcement:

Larry is a great interviewer and in his announcement, he said “I’ll still be a part of the CNN family, hosting several Larry King specials on major national and international subjects… With this chapter closing I’m looking forward to the future and what my next chapter will bring, but for now it’s time to hang up my nightly suspenders.”

Twenty weeks into their pregnancy, T. K. and Deidrea Laux found out that their son had Trisomy 13—a rare DNA abnormality. After being counseled that “terminating the pregnancy” would be an option, they chose life. In Deidrea’s own words:

“We didn’t not terminate because we were hanging on to some sort of hope that there was a medical mistake or there was gonna be some sort of medical miracle. We didn’t terminate because he’s our son.”

The Dallas Morning News has produced this video chronicling the birth and home-going of Thomas after just 5 short days — even longer than most baby’s with his condition live. This is an amazing story of love and life, and you need to watch it.

The good news is that about one year after Thomas’ life ended, earlier this January, the Laux family were blessed with the birth of a healthy baby daughter. To the family who thought that they would never be parents, God’s grace is sufficient.

(Portions of text for this post were taken from fellow Seinfield fan, Denny’s Burk, on his blog about Choosing Thomas). Thanks Denny.

(Our group, by the way, made up of Wilson Wise, David Townsend, and Amanda Gibbs (maybe?) put together a rube goldberg where the final result was to open a PEZ dispenser). It was fun, I think.)

When put to music, and done all in one take — wow! –  you can get a great result! See this video from the band Ok Go. (This video, at the time of the posting, out after only 2 months has received about 13 million views on youtube. That is pretty outstanding!)

To learn more about the American cartoonist Rube Goldberg and how these fun projects have come to be known as “Rube Goldberg Experiments,” see the Rube Goldberg Wikipedia page.

For April Fool this year, all people are doing funny April Fool’s joke, like Google “changing it’s name to Topeka,” and youtube.com turning videos in ASCII text (which is pretty ingenious, I think),…

And even GroupOn.com built a small microsite to allow people to buy “elite” items like metal shirt’s with only sleeves and no shirt (pictured to the right) for $6100, faceless watches for $14,500, or Royal crowns for $68,099. this may sound silly, but the site sells it much better than I can explain it.

See the site Groupöupon at http://www.groupoupon.com/.

Even once you click to try and buy some of these ridiculous items, you are prompted to be scanned for coolness to make sure that you are even cool enough to even buy such items. The text reads: “Please align your eye with the retinal scanner below so we can check your identity against our online database of confidential tax records and confirm your worthiness as a potential member of Groupöupon.” — Funny stuff.

For other great listings of April Fool’s jokes from the tech world for 2010, see Mashable’s best of April Fool’s post.