Free dummy 

I have the local news on with the sound off and caught a glimpse of a dummy being thrown from a tall building. It reminded me of my favorite Deep Thought by Jack Handy: "If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy."

Do a podcast 

I have to stay up late and finish some work so I hope Mr. Dave does a podcast instead of, or in addition to, posting about Microsoft's influencers' briefing today on Live.com. Sounds like he's all wound up and it would be so much more fun to hear the allwoundupness.

Crossed signals 

I don't play the lottery, it's not in my awareness, so when the guy across the counter at the convenience store asked me, "Do you want to play the big game tonight?" I thought at first it was a very creative proposition of another sort.

Group dreams 

I wonder if utopian dreams might find a renaissance as baby boomers age and look for nicer and cheaper ways to live the rest of our lives. As more of us reach retirement age it's going to mean big shifts in the economy, including workplaces and consumer markets, but it doesn't have to be all about marketing science and demographics. In fact, our generation in its old age could become a force that's consciously not about organizing life around markets.

I've always been a uptopian dreamer. The idea of having like-minded people around all the time is appealing. And if the group also produced something worthwhile, that seems like heaven to me.

The product wouldn't have to be a corn crop, and I don't relish the idea of making my own shoes. It could be a technology product or an internet service grown out of some legitimate human need. Not the ass-backwards approach that's more usual, wherein the organizing goal is to make a killing, then a product or service is contrived to meet that need.

Too bad communes got such a bad name from association with Manson and cults and pagans and stuff. Maybe the word colony is a more palatable way to think of it if you care about acceptance.

Go flock yourself 

An irreverant look at "Web 2.0." I almost hate to link to it because I'd rather ignore the undertone in the current top item on Mary Jo Foley, but you can't like all of everything you link to.

Appropriate media 

Now here is a good candidate for video podcasting: Photoshop Radio. So they did it: Photoshop TV.