First Snow of 2009: Already cross-country ski tracks.

What to Expect From Common Craft in 2009:

In a word: Education.

Our goal in 2009 is to make explanatory videos that have a positive impact.  To get there, we plan to focus of video subjects that are educational in nature and help address…

“He is being forgotten already, even if he’s not yet gone. You start to pity him until you remember how vast the wreckage is. It stretches from the Middle East to Wall Street to Main Street and even into the heavens, which have been a safe haven for toxins under his passive stewardship. The discrepancy between the grandeur of the failure and the stature of the man is a puzzlement. We are still trying to compute it.”

- Op-Ed Columnist - A President Forgotten but Not Gone - NYTimes.com

An Oral History of the Bush White House: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com: Wow. A long word-of-mouth account of what happened 2000-2008 by the people who were there. Very interesting and very depressing too.

18 Lessons Learned in 2008: It’s time for our 2nd annual Year-End Lessons Learned post. 2008 was a great year for Common Craft.  While we published a number of videos that we’re very proud of, 2008 was all about building a…

Happy New Year by Electrabel - Fubiz™: Watch the video - awesome animation via candles.

Cat Shower (via Manυ)

Part of a pool of photos inspired by Gary Larson’s Far Side comics.

ReadWriteWeb on Common Craft : Marshall at ReadWriteWeb, posted a story today about Common Craft that was actually published a few months back, but has been reposted at a “redux.”  It’s one of my favorite bits of press and…

commoncraft: http://twitpic.com/x7cv Saturday afternoon video shoot.

“But text messages are not just tiny; they are also free riders, tucked into what’s called a control channel, space reserved for operation of the wireless network.
That’s why a message is so limited in length: it must not exceed the length of the message used for internal communication between tower and handset to set up a call. The channel uses space whether or not a text message is inserted.”

- Digital Domain - What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About Texting - NYTimes.com

““As President Bush prepares to leave office, the American public has a parting thought: Good riddance. At least that’s the way three-quarters feel,” says CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider.”

- CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - CNN Poll: Three out of four Americans glad to see Bush go « - Blogs from CNN.com

Humorous Pictures (via Angry BBQ « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?

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When I installed a web cam at my Mom’s house, I had no idea my nephew would do this.  Funny stuff.

Big Messed Up Spaz (via DUDEYOUYO)

Dog Shoplifts [Caught on Camera] (via SwimmingPolarBear)

The Best Christmas Gift - From a Driver in Sri Lanka: On Christmas Eve of 2004, Sachi and I made a decision.?? We decided that, in one year, we would depart on a year long trip.?? We reserved a web site address that night: www.theworldisnotflat.com…

The Best Christmas Gift - From a Driver in Sri Lanka: On Christmas Eve of 2004, Sachi and I made a decision.  We decided that, in one year, we would depart on a year long trip.  We reserved a web site address that night: www.theworldisnotflat.com…