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• “Mr. Macintosh” – Some have speculated that the choice of iPad as the name for the new slatelet may be comparable to an obsession Steve Jobs had years ago with an animated guy who would pop out of your Apple menus at random. [via Mrgan]


• You Play To Win The Game – Snippets from/like the Coors NFL coach ads masterfully pulled together into a remix, with backing track:
  [via gregg]


• Support Our () Troops – Heh.


• Tweet Of The Heh – This week, from the Cookie Monster. Related heh: Oscar The Grouch was originally orange.


• Rob’s CES Flyer Scans – Just as it sounds, scans from the stuff handed out at CES in a bygone era.


• Food Network Caption Humor:
  

• Something About This Guy And His Sweet Tea – According to the notes it’s either ” A FAILED ATTEMPT AT REGIONAL CULTURE-LATCHING,” “Some kind of sad, failed Olympics mascot?” or “Saturday.”


• CryingWife.com – A couple-created movie review site that chronicles her constantly breaking down in tears at the end of just about every movie they see. Her take on Star Wars is a good place to start.


• Ice Cube(s)
  


• People Talking On Bananas, Or My New Favorite Blog – Pure joy, on the daily.


• Wi-Fi For Passive Aggressives – Heh.


• The Making Of Avatar: The Bootleg – The comments start strong with “…please either go see the damn thing or stop posting stuff with self-justifications. There’s a billion other blogs out there doing the irrational Avatar-hate thing.” [via Gregg]:
  


• Invaluable Advice For Atlantans Today –


• (update)All Night Long – Late at night, on The Phoenix Suns team bus…(hint: let the music playon playon playon). [via the_real_nash by way of Erik]

When an article looks promising but I don’t have the time, attention, focus, or patience to read it, I generally stick it in my to read pile on Delicious.com. I filed away what turned out (just today) to be a real gem in April of this year – from Gary Wolf on the blog Quantified Self and titled Measuring Mood – Current Research And New Ideas. It provides a thumbnail sketch of the recent scholarly history of the theory of emotions, and points to a few approaches that show promise including happy factor. Mood tracking and the ability to measure and share data about levels of individual happiness is a topic that seems to pop up in brainstorms all the time, and is often falsely assumed to be as an easy and straightforward thing to implement.

Read, don’t skim Gary’s article if you’re interested in finding out more about the tension between two prevailing approaches at modeling emotion — one that makes happiness and sadness polar opposites, and one that allows them to coexist at the same time — and how Lisa Feldman Barrett’s approach helped to lead the discussion in a productive direction.

There’s only so much heh a Friday can take.

• Were I Hammacher Schlemmer, These Would Be ‘The Elmo Tickle Hands’- “The furry gloves not only reproduce Elmo’s famous laughs and giggles when you touch someone, but they’ll also play his new The Tickle Hand Groove song”:
  


• Get Up And Move – A nice way to challenge someone via Twitter (through the magic of OAuth) to do appropriately micro-sized amounts of exercise.
  [via Quantified Self]


• A Mexican Standoff:
  
  [via Negatendo]


• “Robert, You Suck” – A (not enough scare quotes in the world) ’social media expert’ observed in his natural habitat.


• The Web For Beginners – Part of a BBC mashup project:


• Tweet In Klingon App – Yep, neH latlh monday po.


• A Fiendy, Anatomically Odd Peanut –
  [via Uknity's class]

• Shiny Suds Ad Elicits Full-on Harrumph Of Outrage – The true heh here is not the original ad, or the reaction to the ad, which if honest should be considered. The true heh here is this comment from a critic/observer, who I’m strongly suspecting is a sock puppet for one of the competing companies: “Making us fear chemical residue from cleaning products because it’s tied into a rape threat is beyond sickening.”
  [via Gerard]


• Sneak Preview Of The Upcoming Adidas Star Wars Collection – “The products in the season’s first drop take inspiration from legendary Star Wars characters and scenes and fuse them with iconic adidas Originals silhouettes.” OMG.
  


• Steven Seagull’s Exit Wounds – This sounds like a much better movie.


• Ruby Pseudo’s Favorite Sentences From Youth Culture Research – “On being asked what their ideal phone would look like: “I wanted the phone to be easy to use, so I have placed eight buttons on the back, two on the top, six on the bottom, four on the left, and four on the right. Take a look at the sketch to understand’ 15 year old male, Belgium”
  [via Jonas]


• Face Ahoy Blog – A blog that chronicles the faces in everyday things. This is something I’ve always kept an eye out for – I’ll have to send them Mr. Sedgewick, circa 2003.
  [via Gavin]


• The Lobster Zone Skill Crane – A deeply disturbing lobby game where participants wield the skill crane to try to catch real live lobsters:
  
  [via Capn Ken]


• Hadouken..hadouken…