DRAWaSTICKMAN.COM not only has some great design features, it strikes up those latent memories of hashing out #EPIC battles in the confines of the kindergarten classroom. I spent many a day letting my 5-year-old mind wander through the vastness of a simple sheet of paper. Clearly, the 37-year-old with a mouse is no match for the 5-year-old with a pencil.

Enjoy the walk down Amnesia Lane!

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What do you need to know? Albert Szent-Györgyi was a Hungarian Physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1937 for his discovery and work with Vitamin C. A glass of high-quality orange juice is raised in his honor.

Cheers Albert!

[via Wikipedia & Google]

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It was inevitable and a natural progression in GetGlue’s development, that people would want to share LIVE content experiences like concerts, movie theaters, and sporting events. GetGlue has done a good job integrating Foursquare into their sharing features, that include Twitter and Facebook, as well. Your check-in is then automatically posted to both Foursquare and GetGlue.

This integration opens up new avenues for business marketing based on content, as opposed to location. Mobile and computer platforms benefit from this integration and adding location will definitely keep the “social” in consumers media consumption.

On your mark, check-in, GO!

[via GetGlue]

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I’d love to give you the answer in big, bold neon lights, but we’ll not know for some time to come what the flies on the walls in Libertyville and Mountain View have seen in the not so distant past. This is where I go out on a limb and say it has nothing to do with patents, lawsuits, or Apple, and say it comes down to what it’s always been about, making money. Licenses can be bought. How many places can you put a Home button on a touchscreen smartphone? And Apple isn’t coming at Google with velociraptors wearing jet packs and holding scissors (although VJS devices are rumored to exist in Cupertino).

Fringe benefits abound for Google, after shelling out the funds for Motorola’s mobile division. Enough so, that the Google legal team high-fived it all the way to their offices to call their respective families and tell them that they would be allowed home for the Holidays. This purchase is about infrastructure. Google wants to preserve and purvey “Google Experience” devices and Motorola Mobility has the infrastructure to do just that, quickly.

I’ve personally witnessed a investment group purchase a nationwide set of properties for 3.24 billion dollars, only to turn around and run the properties into the ground, while sucking every dollar out of them. The real goal was a company intranet system that was used for the other 100 billion plus in assets in their portfolio. I’m not saying that Google will take what they need and cast Motorola Mobility aside. I merely offer evidence of what companies will do to attain infrastructure that is ultimately costly and time expansive to develop and streamline. While Motorola has had to mount a fight to go through it’s own retooling to become a solvent player in the mobile tech arena again, they’ve maintained the capability to produce, market, and deliver products to points of sale in the global market space. Google has struggled to even bring sales to the virtual space.

Like I said before, time has a way of shedding light on secrets and intentions. However, Google will, within a short time frame, have the ability to bring multiple “Google Experience” devices to all major markets, with the added benefits of preserving the Android platform and staving off any patent legal issues (for the time being). Investing in your companies future by increasing revenue streams while preserving and protecting your company integrity is not a bad day at the office.

In the long run, it truly does make perfect sense.

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The $79 annual fee Amazon Prime Membership is becoming comprehensive in it’s media offerings, and as others point out, the addition of streaming music would round off their digital offerings. Amazon’s leverage in both digital and printed book sales, makes them one of a few potential suitors that could be architects of such a deal with publishers. If Amazon cements this deal, the increase in competition would be a win for consumers, but also yet another sign of the decline of printed books.

It’s Prime Time at Amazon.

[via CNET]

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Long live the Birds!  That is all.

[via AYTM]

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“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”

Today, I am reminded I must get up and “do”, to find that happiness so many chase. Let’s do this thing!

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The Pommery family has carefully guarded the secret of this recipe. The mustard is made of natural products only, which lend to its exquisite flavor and subtle aroma. It enhances the culinary art and excites the appetite. Brillat Savarin called it the mustard for gourmets and said: “if it isn’t Meaux, it isn’t mustard”.

A simple and wonderful recipe is to rub a 1 to 1 1/4 pound pork tenderloin with 3 tbsp. Pommery mustard and sprinkle evenly with fresh ground pepper. Bake roughly 40 minutes @ 425 degrees until 135 to 140 degrees internal temperature for medium.

Pommery can be found at Amazon.com Bon Appetite!

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[Photo via Ain't It Cool News, Video]

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You can probably say that Blackberry has been overshadowed by Android, Apple, and Microsoft in innovation this past year, but I wouldn’t discount them. They remain a mobile tech company with huge market share, albeit declining, and many resources. It’s a pivotal year for Blackberry, for sure, and hopefully we see more innovation than the lackluster Blackberry 6 OS . Nevertheless, the competition is great for the end user and makes for some good entertainment to boot. Let’s get ready to rumble!

[via BBC]

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