Marketing Guru / All-Round Guru Seth Godin seems to be in the business of regularly handing my ass back to me. Whether on his blog or in books that he has authored or co-authored, like The Big Moo he reaches this Goldilocks-like balancing point of common sense, wisdom, shame-on-you, and inspiration.

In his today’s post entitled Do you deserve it, he reinforces the fact that it’s not about egos, reputations; it’s not even about intelligence or ability – It’s about results.

Great tip I heard from Ramit of I Will Teach You to be Rich: You can download Suze Orman’s new book for free, via Oprah’s site. Please thank him by visiting one of his advertisers.

Fantastic Art from Rune Guneriussen

Or, How the West was Won.

For anyone who needs to make a quick color decision, I definitely recommend the Martha Stewart Colors© paint swatches from Valspar & Lowe’s.

What’s great about these cards is rather than give a few point along a gradient for you to choose which exact tone you like best, each is has 2 stripes of color that round out a perfectly balanced theme.

Try it on your next site.

For those who have never been to the official Lifehack site, you probably should head over there.

In the meantime, here’s a little shortcut my Wombat took while our extra pillow cases were in the wash:

A t-shirt is quite comfortable performing this office!

Bre (formerly of Make: created a pilot for a fantastic show concept called History Hacker (History Channel). Here’s the teaser:

Via Makezine Blog:
The Unfinished Swan is a fantastic concept for a game and original use of the first-person format. The site (http://iandallas.com/games/swan/) has gone down due to traffic increases from recent web exposure, so for now, you can use the Google Cache

The Unfinished Swan – Tech Demo 9/2008 from Ian Dallas on Vimeo.

We have a new edition of addition to our house:

Owlie

We got this little “critter” from DomestiKate off Etsy. You can see it here …

… on our wall next to the Laundry Day print from theblackapple, which we also got from Etsy.

Laundry Day

I wanted to let you know about the fantastic collage & mixed-media artist, Ben Butcher.

Blue Bayou, Ben Butcher

With a distinct style to his own his pieces have no problems catching eyes, but it is the first work that I saw of his that keeps me coming back. I saw the Blue Bayou at the Disney Gallery in Disneyland earlier this year. Check out the hi-res on his site.

Major Kudos to COLORinMONOCHROME for learning something amazing from someone amazing & calling it on the mountain-top for all to hear. Now you too can make your own engrish, using only translate.google.com!

Possible engrish fodder:

1. Campaign speeches
2. Rap lyrics
   • If you don’t bring back my mother fucking money or my mother fucking dope, you can forget about Christmas nigga, cause you ain’t going even see New Years
   • My mother is not good if the money is the mother of six and I did not bring drugs is not a nigga more about Christmas, New Year to you, please refer to forget the cause can not be
3. Cookbook recipes, or anything procedural like instruction manuals for electronics
4. yoda quotes!
   • The boy you trained, gone he is… Consumed by Darth Vader.
   • The boy you trained, gone … he consumed in DASUBEIDA.
   • Yes. Yes. A flaw more and more common among Jedi. Too sure of themselves they are. Even the older, more experienced ones.
   • Yes. Yes. Jedi exists between the more common defects. They want to make sure that his own. In addition, the older, more experienced.