My Ninja, Please! 9.14.11: Drunken Kung-Fu Moose
In a surprise event that capitvated a nation, a moose was spotted using the drunken Kung-Fu technique somewhere near Stockholm, Sweden, recently. Originally thought to have studied in the Wang-Chin school, the moose’s origins became unclear late Tuesday night when a spokesperson from the school denied ever training the moose.
"Last animal student was a rat," said 62 year-old PR man Hamato Yoshi, "but there’s no telling who else he may have trained."
Further doubt was cast on the situation when it was reported that the moose had been eating fermented apples from someone’s backyard and was actually stuck in the tree, as opposed to using it for stealth reasons as initially believed. While practitioners of Zui Quan, or Drunken Fist, are reputed for their imitation of intoxication, they are rarely ever actually drunk. Quoted as saying in between hiccups, "Water floats, but also capsizes boats," the moose appeared undoubtedly drunk.
The large deer-relative had to be helped from the tree by rescuers and was given a period of a few days to sober up. As of right now, the moose has not been charged with any crime.
Posted: September 14th, 2011
at 11:37am by Black Ock
Categories: myninjaplease,10th dan
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Keng on Incorporation
Entrepreneurs will need to incorporate, so here are some important steps that most people ignore when first starting out.
What to do with an English Major

From the 2004 Broadway musical, Avenue Q. Prudent advice for a prudish economy.
Saturn Fly-By
5.6k Saturn Cassini Photographic Animation from stephen v2 on Vimeo.
Animated from thousands of still photographs, this virtual fly-by is a preview of an IMAX film in the works. Each image comes from the Cassini-Huygens Orbiter, launched in conjunction with a Titan probe of the same name in 1997 and transmitting stunning visuals since 2004. This one goes out to all of our space-ninjas; it’s far more difficult to hear or see a ninja coming in space, btw.
Posted: September 13th, 2011
at 8:59am by Black Ock
Categories: robots,film,science,space
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FailCon 2011 Warm Up
If you wondered how people win, they failed to get there. FailCon is bringing together 20 speakers and a series of workshops to study the failure process. Happening October 24th, 9:00a - 6:00p at Hotel Kabuki, SF, it is bringing to light the often tabooed use of the term failure.
As an entrepreneur, you will inevitably encounter failure; it is overcoming it that is the biggest challenge. At FailCon, we help you do just that. Join founders and partners from MySpace, Uber, Cuil, Airbnb, Khosla Ventures, MindJolt, KISSmetrics, PBworks, Second Life, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and more as share advice on how to reach success.
Past ninja speaker from 2010 and teacher legend, Steve Blank, offers some insight about start-up customer development and the role of the pivot (from 30 years of experience mind you):

So why attend a conference about failing as opposed to winning? Because it is refreshing to see the leaders of the tech world to talk about their bumpy path as opposed to a course that just happened exactly as it was supposed to (does that happen at all?).
MNP will definitely be checking out The Failure of Business Models and Negotiation - How To Not Fail At Getting Your Way. As you may or may not know, we embrace failure- if the resident ninja is seen with a broken computer in tote, you will know that they are failing to success and say what’s up! We hope to be able to learn from FailCon about………monetization- I know, outlandish right? Something that has eluded the ninjas in this part of the blogosphere…
Ed. note: Over the past five years, the look and feel of myninjaplease.com has been updated numerous times and for those that have stuck with us through our early days of coming off like a science project (no, really) and to where were at today, know that we have a long way to go! What better way then to continue on then to learn from the pitfalls en route to building something better the next time.
And when you’re ready to buy tickets to FailCon 2011, use the code, "my ninja" and receive 15% off!
Posted: September 11th, 2011
at 6:09pm by mnp
Categories: web,business,development,events,entrepreneurship,fail,innovation
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Nike does Back to the Future

I bet you they WON’T get you laid, though.
Posted: September 9th, 2011
at 3:25pm by Black Ock
Tagged with shoes, kicks, nike, back to the future, marty mcfly
Categories: too good to be true,clothes,gear
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If talking is one thing, and conversation another, then what is chat?
In the early days of the internet, chatting was something that happened between strangers. "Wanna cyber?" millions of people asked, and millions answered: Yes! On AOL—as of 1994, the most popular internet service provider in the US—half the member-created chat rooms were for sex. AOL also launched the first mass IM interface, which was where the real action happened. Each conversation appeared as a flat, white square on your screen—it was like having sex on a tiled floor. But at least it was someone else’s floor. Signing off was like walking out of a public bathroom. #read Chathexis at n+1
Ancestral Bridge?
A pair of fossils from a South African cave have scientists both excited and puzzled. Scientists say the fossils — an adult female and a juvenile — could be the long-sought transition between ape-like ancestors and the first humans.
The bones belong to creatures related to the famous Lucy fossil found in Ethiopia in the 1970s, but their owners lived more recently — just 2 million years ago.
The reason for the excitement? Ask anthropologists what they dream about, and many will tell you it’s the fossil of the last pre-human ancestor that led directly to us. Nobody’s found it, and any who claim to usually get publicly whacked by their peers #Read the story
Posted: September 9th, 2011
at 10:09am by Black Ock
Categories: myninjaplease,9th dan,science,reading is fun-damental
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