This will be my next car. Oh yes. It will be mine!

Tags: Cars, Smart

These quotes are from the Merlin Board (don't ask)

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2. There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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4. If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0
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6. Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips."
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8. My pokemon bring all the nerds to the yard, and they're like you wanna trade cards? Darn right, I wanna trade cards, I'll trade this but not my charizard.
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10. 1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d
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12. I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly.
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14. I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
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16. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
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18. A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
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20. My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.
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Tags: Geekery

Sheer brilliance.

by Emil Rensing



Tim Shey is a graduate of The George Washington University. He studied more math than he cares to admit, even though he graduated with an English degree. Sure, all the painting and sculpting classes were therapeutic and essential to developing he creative prowess, but that didn’t help with his calculus attendance. (but we don’t talk about that)

While Tim was finishing his degree, others of us (ie. most of us) had dropped out to take temp jobs at a small online services company in Virginia. When Tim and his business partner Patrick started a company instead of joining the triangle, we were shocked. Not because he chose a more entrepreneurial path, but because we didn't think that art-boy Tim knew anything about the interactive space.

Boy were we wrong.

Proteus by Tim and his business partner Patrick wAas founded in 1996. It was was one of the first interactive development firms in Washington, D.C. It quickly evolved from web development to interactive services development to mobile development. Their early work with OmniPoint secured them an early victory for both the client and their reputation of doing something fun and out-of-the box without being pointlessly bleeding edge.

In January 2002, Shey and Proteus developed and produced the first U.S. television broadcast to feature live interactive voting using mobile phones for FOX Sports' Super Bowl XXXVI broadcast. Proteus went on to develop many other interactive television events, including ABC's The View: His and Her Body Test, which was nominated for the first ever primetime Emmy Award for interactive television. Shey was influential in the development of mobile content offerings for HBO, ABC, and FOX Latin America.

Tim has been a featured blogger for The Huffington Post. In early 2006, Shey did a stint as managing producer of Rocketboom, where he worked with Andrew Baron and Amanda Congdon to develop their advertising and business strategy. Tim's been a friend to the videoblogging community ever since, and helped Amanda produce her videoblog Amanda Across America this summer.

It's an impressive list of accomplishments and "firsts". but the thing you know Tim for is that whole Nike thing. Remember that? It's the stuff Urban Legends are made of. In early 2001, he posted an email correspondence that his friend Jonah Peretti had with Nike's customer service department to his personal blog, which Jonah also emailed to ten of his friends. The e-mails quickly spread worldwide through email and web links in the following months, eventually causing Nike to respond with an on-air debate with Peretti on The Today Show. To this day, they are a frequently cited early example of the power of contagious media to spread activist ideas.

Personally, I tell people that Tim invented viral marketing. He could have. He's that good.

Damn it. The Lamborghini is in Las Vegas and the Ferrari is in New York.

This sucks.

Tags: Cars

Thanks God AOL does not know how to take down a server, or these images would have been lost forever!


Now-a-days people would call this a platform-independent, plugin-free viral content widget. At the time, we called it the smart way to publish.