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Yogurtville: not your typical frozen yogurt

// September 29th, 2008 // View Comments // Blog

UPDATE: 07/22/2010

It looks like Yogurt Ville has been busy and has new locations in the DFW area. Check out all the locations here:

http://www.yogurtvilleusa.com/locations.html

Here in Texas the upscale non-fat frozen yogurt craze is fairly new, as such there are a lot of different companies trying to capitalize on the craze started in Korea, moved to California and now is making waves in Dallas,TX. The store that started the trend is a store called Red Mango out of Korea, which spawned many copy cats including PinkBerry, BerryBerry, Bliss, and now Yogurtville.

One thing about the other copy cats to Red Mango is that they are all over-the-counter shops where you point to the toppings you want, and someone over the counter places the toppings for you. With Yogurtville, you choose the yogurt you like, you scoop the toppings, and you weight the result. That’s right they charge you per weight. Right now its $.35 per ounce. Pretty novel idea, the more you eat, the more you pay.

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Weekly Tweet for Week of 9.21 – 9.28

// September 28th, 2008 // View Comments // Social Media

09/28

It maybe a little too early for this but had some pumpkin pie with lunch. hmmm love pumpkin pie! #
Couric-Palin Sketch–too funny! http://tinyurl.com/3zfsub #

09/25

@kyle1point0 Didn’t know you did video art. Pretty sweet. #

09/23

Heroes starts in 1 hour! If your Central Time that is. #
@mrdat Does that mean you’re attacking my rows right now? #
@loiclemeur home page is igoogle #

09/22

@cstricklin Fifth Element is one of my all time favorites! #
Having my new favorite breakfast item. Egg-in-Toast. http://tinyurl.com/4b9qq5 #
Doing a little twitter cleanup. Removing people I don’t know or those I have no I idea why I followed. #
@dvdquotes Meet the Fockers #
Ok down from 229 to 195 following. A little more manageable. #
Just got a new book called “Blogging Heroes” which interviews the top 30 bloggers of the world. http://tinyurl.com/bloggingheroes #
@mrdat when are you going to change your default avatar? come on you’ve been using twitter a while now ^_^ #
@jowyang Is your dallas event public or private and where is it going to be? #
@fred7man I can let you borrow it when I’m done. #

09/21

Grabbing a bite to eat then going to the Angelica to watch Transsiberian. #
@sparekarma TransSiberian was a good film. Sarah actually picked a good one this time. I would give it a 8.6. #
@briancline What did you think of Transsiberian? I just watched it tonight at the Angelika in Plano. #
@geektyrant Thanks I did enjoy the film. I was shocked since my wife picked one I liked. I’m glad I watched the trailer afterwards. #

Timeframe: A 72 hour New Media Video Exhibition

// September 25th, 2008 // View Comments // Internet, Video

Ten Artists will interpret the element of time found in an immersive space that allows for varying yet simultaneous moments of presence.

That is the description from their website. A friend of mine, Kyle Kondas is one of the video artists participating in this exhibition. To see the works of these video artists, head over to www.seesmic.com and check out the featured videos on the right hand side. There you will see a link to Timeframe Exhibition. If you are new to seesmic, you will see the videos in a timeline on the left hand column. There are scrolls button on the bottom. Just scroll through the different videos as well as people’s video comments.

This is a new and inventive way to use seesmic which is primarily a video social network. The nice part is the instant feedback you can get from the viewers. Kudos to Christi Nielson, the curator, for coming up with a new way to display art.

I posted a few of the videos that have been submitted so far. Just click the “read more” click below. Also keep checking back to seesmic since this lasts from 09/25 – 09/27.

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Radiohead Reckoner Remixes

// September 25th, 2008 // View Comments // Internet, Music, News

I received this email yesterday from the Radiohead mailing list:

After the insane response we got from the Nude remix stems and the site that was dedicated to your remixes…

Unique visitors: 6,193,776, Page Views: 29,090,134, Hits: 58,340,512, Bandwidth: 10.666 Terabytes, Number of mixes: 2,252, Number of votes: 461,090, Number of track listens: 1,745,304

…we thought it only fair to do the same with a tune that at least is in 4/4. You can get the stems (the different instruments/elements) from here

Radiohead is basically saying “here is all of our instruments from this song go and have fun!” God bless Radiohead! I could shed a tear right now. They have also launched a site for you to upload your remixes and have the public vote on the best ones. You even get a HTML widget you can put on your blog, myspace, facebook, etc. I think Radiohead is the only band out there that knows their audience and willing to go against the mold.

The Lucha Mask Cometh!

// September 22nd, 2008 // View Comments // Blog, Video

A friend from work gave me this lucha mask from Mexico and I wanted to show it off to my wife. Below is the video of her response. I had no idea she felt that way. LoL

Tweets on 2008-09-18 & 17

// September 18th, 2008 // View Comments // Social Media

A friend at work bought me a lucha wrestling mask from mexico so I had to try it on! http://www.vimeo.com/1756674 #
@kevinrose crap need to reinstall Half-Life 2. #
@fred7man The internet is a great tool when used properly. #
@fred7man wow u are a great dad. I would be watching tv right…wait I am. #
Watching a docudrama on PBS called Einstein’s Big Ideas. Very facinating stuff. #
Time to watch me some fringe! #