Sir Patrick Stewart has but one rule for using Twitter, and it’s a good one. In this video, he explains how he uses it, and how he came up with the rule.
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I’m decluttering. I’m getting rid of a fair bit of stuff, and that means my new-found asceticism is your big bargain! Whether you’re looking for a treat for yourself or want to save some money on Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Festivus presents, I’ve got stuff going cheap that you may want. In this installment, I’m posting business books for sale. As the title of this article says, they’re $5 each, any 5 for $20.
I live in Toronto, practically on top of High Park subway station, and it’s easiest if you drop by to pick them up. If you live far away and want to cover shipping, I’d be happy to send ’em your way. If you want a book or many books, email and let me know!
- 1001 Ways to Reward Employees
- Managing Your Manager
- Booklife
- Predictably Irrational
- Unique Ability
- Fierce Conversations
- Speaking PowerPoint
- Screen Future
- Getting to Yes
- A Whack on the Side of the Head
- Meatball Sundae
- It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be
- How to Make Luck
- Celebrating Failure
- Drive
- Free Prize Inside
- Here Comes Everybody
- Married to the Brand
- The Back of the Napkin
- Confessions of a Public Speaker
- Listening to the Future
- The Power of Habit
- First, Break All the Rules
- The Thank You Economy
- Enchantment
- Buy-In
- Startup Communities
- Poke the Box
- The Behavior Gap
- Groundswell
- Managing Transitions
- The Advisor Century
- Switch
- Hyperformance
- Rich is a State of Mind
- I Will Teach You to Be Rich
- Speed-Reading for Professionals
- Project Management Terms: A Working Glossary
- The Art of the Interview
- The Black Swan
- Ready for Anything
- Positioning
- Presentation Zen
- Purple Cow
- The Art of the Long View
- New Job, New You
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- People Skills
- The Personal MBA
- Let’s Get Real or Let’s Not Play
- Only the Paranoid Survive
- Know-How
- Head First PMP
- How to Instantly Connect with Anyone
- Insidious Competition
- The Five Rituals of Wealth
- Making It Happen
- The Microsoft Crabby Office Lady Tells it Like it Is
- Getting Things Done
- Reality is Broken
- What Shall I Do With My Life?
Toronto’s Peter Griffin-esque mayor makes history again: he’s the first Toronto mayor to be the subject of a New Yorker cartoon.
The cartoon is also more proof for Charles Lavoie’s hypothesis that you can take any New Yorker cartoon and replace its caption with a certain phrase and it will still work:
Thanks to the “Mayor Frod” Twitter account for the link!
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Batmemes for Caturday
A still from the infamous “enough to eat at home” press conference.
Yes, there’s the fake trailer for Rob Ford: The Movie, which is made up of clips from Chris Farley movies, but the real thing is just as entertaining in its own, sad way. Unfortunately, the real thing is also real. If you can watch this montage of the “greatest hits” from our mayor over the past two years put together by the Toronto Star and still want to vote for him, you’re either willfully ignorant, or are one of those types who just likes to watch the world burn.
To borrow a line from my friend Richard Platel: “Sure, when you put everything together like this, it looks bad.”
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Drake, Rob Ford and “Tronno”
Sadly, it’s true. Furthermore, Rob Ford may be the reason why most American newscasters and late-night comics — Jon “Toe-RON-toe” Stewart being the notable exception — now pronounce the city’s name properly: “Tronno” or “Toronno”.
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The Rob Ford video fest [Updated]
He’s destroyed city council’s ability to do productive work, and with this batch of videos, he’ll destroy yours too!
The trailer for Rob Ford: The Movie
Cleverly put together by Toronto-based director Tristan Gough using clips from Chris Farley movies. It tells the Rob Ford story rather well!
Comedy skit: “Rob and Doug Ford hold a press conference”
Another 22 Minutes skit with Mark Critch playing Rob Ford and Mark McKinney (formerly of Kids in the Hall) as Doug. Some really funny jokes at the end.
Rob Ford-related Music
Chris Daughtry on Jimmy Kimmel – The Ballad of Rob Ford
This song includes a laundry list of things that are unbelievable-sounding but that Rob Ford actually did!
Ron Burgundy on Conan – Loverboy’ s Working for the Weekend
Will Ferrell makes an appearance on Conan as his Ron Burgundy character from Anchorman and performs Loverboy’s biggest hit as an ode to our mayor:
22 Minutes: What Does Rob Ford Say?
The Canadian news comedy show’s Rob Ford-themed parody of YLVIS’ What Does the Fox Say?
Various dance and hip-hop mixes based on Rob Ford interview samples
Expect more of these as the details of the police investigation get released and His Worship reacts.
DJ Steve Porter – Rob Ford Crack Remix
MixTheWeek – Rob “Crack” Ford Remix
KISS 92.5’s Crack Remix of SOS
Other TV and news appearances
The Daily Show – Tuesday, November 19th
Click this picture to view the video.
The Guardian’s collection of Rob Ford’s greatest hits
The remix of the Jean-Claude van Damme Volvo ad
Matt Lauer’s interview with Rob and Doug
The Drunk Driving Impression
Because he’s that kind of guy, he won’t let a confession to driving drunk and a previous DUI charge stop him from making fun of a city councillor who was pulled over by a police spot check and given a warning about driving while impaired, but not charged.
Whoopi Goldberg and Jay Leno
She makes a good point: crack addicts aren’t as, er, husky as the mayor.
All those crazy Taiwanese animated news pieces on our crazy mayor
Whenever something that’s at least mildly amusing makes the news, one of my first questions is “What’s the crazy Taiwanese animated take on this story?” The fine folks at Next Media Animation never disappoint me, and one of them even sent me an email saying that they enjoyed my Rob Ford will (ahem) go down in history with this quote piece, and could I please post their latest video?
For NMA? Of course! Hey, I’ll post ’em all: