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Bill Carter for NYTimes.com’s Media Decoder blog:

The fans of Conan O’Brien will not have to wait much longer — though they may have to wait in long lines — to see their favorite late-night comedian perform again: Starting April 12 in Eugene, Oregon, O’Brien’s 30-city tour — with national and international stops — is on.

And if the title is any indication, the tour will also be sending a message about how O’Brien and his Team Coco feels about his abrupt departure from NBC’s “Tonight Show” in January. The title? “The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour”.

Mozilla Rejects MetaLab, Then Steals Design

We get ripped off a lot. I often spot a button image that’s been repurposed, or a layout that’s just a little bit too inspired by a previous design we’ve done. Generally, we find it really flattering and have a good laugh - if nothing else, it makes us feel that we’re probably doing something right if people are so eager to plagiarize. But earlier today a friend linked me to Mozilla’s new JetPack design and my jaw dropped.

Absolute insanity, especially from such a large corporation like Mozilla.

State of the Internet, a motion type presentation by the Jess3 agency of mostly mind-blowing statistics from the big social networks during 2009. (via Matthew Buchanan)

"I know there are kids out there that don’t have that support system so if you’re out there and you’re listening, listen to me: If you want to be creative, get out there and do it. It’s not a waste of time. Do it. OK?"

Michael Giacchino’s acceptance speech for the Up soundtrack

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We view our world in black and white.

We’re blind to the outside world around us. We only see our lives; we don’t live others lives, nor do we understand how every individual lives.

Outside of out simple, black and white life is a wide array of color: shades of red, and blue, and green, that we will never experience. Unless, of course, we take a risk.

We can expand our horizons by expanding our world. We can explore, we can leave our safe zones, we can run free. There’s nothing stopping us. All we have to do is want to see the color of others’ worlds.

Photo credit: “Portland [Black & White]” by Andre Peniche

Twitter: The Criterion Collection

What if Twitter… came to life?

We asked some of our friends to film their favorite tweets. We didn’t care how they did it. They could read it. They could act it. They could do it with puppets. Whatever they wanted. The only rules were it had to be a tweet written by someone else and it had to contain the entire tweet and nothing but the tweet.

This is what they gave us.

We hope you enjoy it.

@poeks & @sween

Fantastic. In fact, pure genius.

OK Go’s music video for “This Too Shall Pass”, off of their new album Of the Blue Colour of the Sky, has gone viral. And with good reason: the elaborate Rube Goldberg machine shown off is yet another example of the band’s breathtaking creative video format.

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@conanobrien:

This is how many people it took to write today’s tweet: “Jumbo” shrimp? WTF!!