Topic: Robin Williams

IPOD instead of AAPL?

Watching the Oscars here, and the best line of the night so far didn't come from Chris Rock, but from Robin Williams, before announcing the winner for the best animated feature. Although "The Incredibles" did go on to win the award, ...READ»

The Odd Couple: Robin Williams and Google's Larry Page

Robin Williams couldn't have asked for a better straight man, during the closing keynote of the Consumer Electronics Show today, than Google co-founder Larry Page, or, as Williams called him, "Mensa boy." Williams poked gentle fun ...READ»

Work/Life: Bear Stearns Indictments...(Almost) Enough To Make A Grown Man Cry

  It is only natural for the human mind to connect seemingly disparate events and try to assign them a collective meaning. So it was as I prepared to write a little something about the recent indictments of two former ...READ»

Viral Narrative

Earlier this year, prankster group Improv Everywhere staged an event called "Frozen Grand Central," in which the participants synchronized their watches, and at a prearranged moment they all froze in place in the middle ...READ»

Leading Ideas: Embrace the Lunatic Inside You

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." -- Robin Williams (1952- ) U.S. Actor and Comedian Something to consider: Your best ideas are born from madness. You've got to let yourself think crazy thoughts ...READ»

Unsound Judgment

Robin Williams once joked that cocaine was God's way of telling you that you have too much money. Add Shure's new E500 headphones ($499) to that list. The goal here is a listening experience that's both great-sounding and ...READ»

Radio Free Business

Shortwave is back.READ»

The NCAA is not a Fan of the Blogosphere

Or at least the ones who don't have express written consent to reproduce or retransmit any accounts of the game or descriptions thereof...For those of you who don't know, Brian Bennett, a writer for the Courier-Journal in Louisville, ...READ»

Smoke Ring

Introducing the cast of "My Dinner with Mondo Cigarro."READ»

The Agonies of Lewis Black

Our customer-service curmudgeon suffers for all of us--but not in silence.READ»

Michael Ovitz

Hollywood talent agencies never functioned the same after Ovitz sunk in his teeth. Now crunching the industry for the second time, the titan of talent intends to surpass his own reputation.READ»

Ideo's David Kelley on "Design Thinking"

David Kelley, founder of the design firm Ideo and the Stanford d.school, was leading a charmed existence. Then he felt a lump.READ»

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The Art of Smart

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Creative Tension

Corning Inc.'s Sullivan Park research facility is one of the most creative places in the world -- a place where brilliant (and unruly) scientists literally invent the future.READ»