Backyard Dancing.

Probably the coolest music video I have ever seen. All in one take and pretty flawless.

From NPR:
A video by the band OK Go for its song "A Million Ways" has become a sensation on the Internet, with over 500,000 downloads. The video, of the band performing a complicated dance routine in Kulash's backyard, was never intended to be released publicly, but it has found a strong following. Robert Siegel talks with Damian Kulash, the band's singer/guitarist, and his sister Trish Sie, a former professional ballroom dancer and choreographed the dance.


Watch 'A Million Ways' (QT)

Google Talk.

Google Talk is here. This nifty new feature from the Google Labs allows instant messaging and voice calls to other Google Talk members. A Gmail account is required for Google Talk. The good news is that Google Talk is compatible with Gaim and Trillian. However, the voice calling feature only works if you're using the actual Google Talk software. Google Talk is beta, like Google and Gmail, (isn't anything Google does ever out of beta?) but works fine for me.
A very enterprising individual I know has figured out how to hack the Jabber/Google Talk relationship to skirt corporate AIM blocking. Google to the rescue once again.

User Experience Week 2005 Photos.

I'll get into more detail later, but here are all the photos taken at UX Week 2005 in Washington, D.C.

Flickr: Photos tagged with uxweek

SXSW is taking names, numbers.

SXSW has begun registration.

A chance to meet Jason Fried is never one to pass up. As always, drinking the koolaid...

Using Backpack for Taking Notes.

Pagini has some interesting ideas about how to use Backpack for note-taking in the classroom. I've used a similar technique for taking meeting notes. You can instantly publish them as a Public page in Backpack, or simply cut-and-paste into Basecamp.

A few of us at User Experience Week 2005 were rapidly inputting notes into Backpack. The only issue we all found is that if you don't save your notes before clicking to another site, you lose everything.

Lessons learned, I suppose.

However, the benefits far outweigh this little behavior change.