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At 8:09 am this morning Goldstar Events member Erin nabbed tickets one-million and one-million-and-one to Live Jazz at the Vic. Wow. (I love the Vic! I remember the phone call when they chose to come on board! It’s been great for both of us!)

As our CEO Jim McCarthy wrote:

“This is excellent. Of course, Rich, Robert and I can still remember February of ’02, when we launched the site and sold a grand total of 5 tickets.
Robert bought two of them because the system had to be tested, and a woman who worked with us at our previous company bought two others to her boyfriend (now husband’s) band, whose show was the first event listed on the site. Fortunately, things picked up a little after that.”

As well, the comments that our members are leaving in the guestbook are just priceless. When I joined Goldstar Events as the first employee one thing that had me really excited and committed was the fact that we would be getting people out to live events. I believe that enriches humanity. And, I really didn’t ever think about how it would feel to have contributed a MILLION evenings of live entertainment, or some other live event, to the lives of so many people. It feels GOOD! Thank you! If you’re not a member yet, what are you waiting for? Join Goldstar Events!

Check it out! I do remember when this seemed like it was a long, long way away. In fact, I remember not even thinking about this and now it’s here! We continue to grow, continue to hook up great people with great events, and I am very, very proud to be a part of Goldstar Events. I believe we make a real contribution to the world of the arts and to the many, many people who’ve bought tickets through our service. Thank you!

The upcoming Virtual Worlds Conference takes place on October 10th and 11th, 2007. I am speaking at the event and I would love to see you there. The conference is dedicated to helping businesses harness the power of virtual worlds to engage with their customers. I think we’ll be getting a lot more frank and open about what’s up and how businesses can really engage with virtual worlds to everyone’s advantage.  If you’d like 10% off the price of admission use this promo code for the Virtual Worlds Conference when you register by entering it in the promo code box: VIPATTENDEE (all caps) and you’ll save 10%.

See the agenda and more info at  http://www.virtualworlds2007.com

What do you think will be the new topics of conversation there? What are you hoping gets talked about?

Here is the booth in Leipzig!

And Skalman! (That’s pronounced Skoalman, btw…)

And Marco and David!

I hear it was a great conference! I am looking forward to E for All, CES, and the upcoming Virtual Worlds Conference, where I will be on a panel.

I am posting this video from the perspective of being utterly fascinated with flight and completely inspired by what we can create. I love airplanes and I love going fast. Good combination here. More about the F-22 is found at the F-22 Raptor website. The assymetric synergistic language is as lethal as it is survivable. Check it out. Read about the technology. I know there are volumes to say about military spending, I am just not going to get into it right now. Buy the book: Addicted to War. BIGWORDS.com is finding you the very best price right now…

This is kind of fun. It’s going around in an email called Airforce Eye Test, but I think it’s actually called Escapa! Check it out then read the rest…

I did 19.69 seconds on approximately my 4th or 5th try. I found that it has you do the James Bond thing: Hurry up by slowing down.

Charles Phoenix! What more need I say?

This is a story in the University of New Mexico Daily Lobo about getting the best prices on textbooks, written by a gentleman named Jeremy Hunt.

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The online business toolbox is a great resource from Mashable courtesy of my buddy Thorsten Hoins. Interestingly enough, today they have a story about the LA Times’ Homicide Google Mashup. A bit macabre, but very interesting.

I just discovered Alison Armstrong and her Understanding Men and Women work.

Alison Armstrong has credibly suggested that:
Men have 13 different points of complexity, while
Women have 26 different points of complexity.
At first blush it would seem that women are, therefore, twice as complex as men.
This belies the actual truth.
When one realizes that all complexity points interact with all other complexity points,
and all other groupings of complexity points, it becomes clear that:

Men’s complexity is actually 13 factorial or 13!
While women’s complexity is 26 factorial or 26!

This actually ends up looking like:

Men’s complexity = 6,227,020, 800

vs.

Women’s complexity = 4.03291461 × 10²⁶ or,

40,329,146,100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

No wonder.

Now, check out what Allanis Morisette had to say about Alison’s work:

“Alison’s deep understanding and love of men moved me to a whole other level of clarity and peace about a gender that has confounded me for a long time. I feel like the wool has been pulled from my eyes and I can see men in a new and more loving way.”

Alanis Morissette, Singer-Songwriter

I concur. It gives me so much more love and compassion for both men and women. Right on.