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Well it's a new year for us Jews and a new weekend for the rest of you. Here's a bunch of links from this week and last week, that I forgot to post was saving for you. Enjoy the New Yearly freshness.

• Incest and Personal Brands (not related, oddly enough) from George Tannenbaum.
• John Logan* and why starting late isn't necessarily a bad thing, from Ben Kay.
• David Oakley gives you a lesson on losing.
• Sometimes you're it helps to figure out what you're NOT going to do. by Vinny Warren
• Muppets Live: In Posters from AdVerve's Bill Green.
• Scott Adams tells you exactly how to kill your creativity. Since that's what we're all looking for, right?
• Do You Know Who You Are?, about exploring yourself, and It Ain't Over 'Till It's Over, why workaholics may not be sick after all, from Dave Trott.
• Talker's Block from Seth Godin. (He doesn't have it, and neither do you)

Video

*John Logan wrote this speech

The most identifiable lyrics that aren't lyrics.

An aurally pleasing event from Mother NY and Kyocera. (via)

Awesome ad for Big Game Hunter 2011. Agency: 72 and Sunny.

The best political ad you'll see this season. "What's good, is to get these goats for our computer industry.

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• Gerry Graf hilariously breaks down TV cupcake shows.
• The Cerberus of ad blogs cometh! Angela Natividad, Bill Green and Darryl Ohrt quit their individual blogs and became the collective known as AdVerve.
• "Two Ways to Be Great" from Makin' Ads.
• Seth Godin on why schools should ditch the industrial model.
• Why Ben Kay thinks companies are wasting money on ads.
• AS A RULE, you shouldn't use as a rule. From Dave Trott.
• And, of course, two posts from George Tannenbaum. "Using Your Ears" and "Is honesty suicide?"

And we've got plenty of video too:

A London bus tour that "made London look cool like New York." (via)

 Laughs from the uber talented Everynone.

Show this to your friends when they say they don't understand why color grading matters.