Enjoy, folks...  for the next 24 hours, you can listen to my (my avatar's) rendition of my favorite song, Depeche Mode's Enjoy the Silence.

I think when Voki comes out in a few weeks, I'm going to start a seperate blog with just avatar song after avatar song, everyday...   

Now that we're close to the Voki launch, I've decided I need to go back to being creative with my avatars and not just working on putting together a new platform for them.

So, without further ado, for the rest of the week, I'll be singing along to some of my favorite tunes.

If you click through today, all day Tuesday, I'll be reprising Iron Butterfly's In-a-Gadda-Da-Vita...

Seriously, click through.  It's probably the worst rendition ever...  but it's worth a listen.  I even did the instruments... click animated me.

Often times, I find myself coming up short when it comes to being involved in other people's stuff.

I involve a lot of people in my own stuff...  650+ people have joined nextNY, but the number of nextNYers whose groups and efforts I can get involved in... well... it always makes me feel like I'm coming up a bit short.   I find myself saying, "Wow... ok, I knew you were doing something, but I didn't really have the time to see what it was."

So, today, I'm playing catch up...   My "late to the party" entry for today is on noneck Noel Hidalgo's "Luck of Seven" journey.

In his words:

"for seven months, he will traverse the seven continents, dive into the seven oceans, and attempt to visit the seven ancient wonders of the world. Using a wiki, noneck will harness the collective knowledge of the globe, and report weekly on seven topics of freedom."

Ok, if there's anyone I've ever met that I could say is a "character", Noel is definitely, one of them... but the thing that makes me have enormous respect for him about is that he strives to learn.... to learn from those who have very diverse perspectives. 

So, whatever Noel learns on his trek, I think we're all going to benefit a lot from that.  He is a connector of ideas.  I've noticed lately that a lot of people I've really enjoyed getting to know are in some way connected to him, even loosely... and so I'm wondering if maybe he's onto something.

He's raising money for his trip...  $11.11 from 700 people.  Get it now?  It's all about the 7's.   He's also leaving on 7/7/07.   

He's trying to get 200 people by March 29th... and to me, spending $11.11 to send someone off to learn from people outside of our little NYC bubble and blog and wiki and vlog it for the world seems like $11.11 well spent.   I encourage you to help him out.

Superficial, on the Olson twins:

"Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen showed up to Paris Fashion Week a couple weeks ago looking like the Children of the Corn. Are they even trying to look like people anymore? I know Parisians take their fashion seriously, so I'm a little surprised nobody took them out back and beat them to death with croissants."

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Wooo...weather is warm enough to be biking again!

- Driving 80 miles an hour in the fog... I can't see EXACTLY where I'm going, but that's not going to slow me down.

- Life as a DANCE rather than a race or something similarly linear and competitive.

A while back, I posted a blurry picture of a older guy with a huge safety pin sticking out of his collar, and tried to come up with some kind of explanation for it.  I think it was one of my funniest posts ever, but maybe my humor isn't for everyone.

Well, it turns out that safety pins in clothing are now the hottest thing.

Who knew one old dude on a train could touch off a fashion phenomena?