Happy New Year! And what better way to start off the New Year by taking a personality test (I introduced you to one here)–but this is not your standard personality test–this is the “Which Super Villain Are You?” test (seen at Jason’s blog).

Let me know which one you are in the comments. Below is my result. (I don’t know Dr. Doom, I’d better do some research.)

You are Dr. Doom, blessed with smarts and power but burdened by vanity.

Click here to take the Super Villain Personality Test

One of my good friends, Bo Damgaard, which is also my colleagaue on the board of a large foundation, is now blogging.

He is off to a great start with great posts titled “Passion” and “If you want to succeed in business, don’t get an MBA. Study philosophy instead!” Go read them.

Here, a quote from the purpose statement of Bo’s blog:

It is not my business here to inquire whether or not the interpretations I give are faithful to the thought they seek to render. Clearly they betray it, but perhaps this betrayal is only a way of highlighting the ‘not-thought’ inherent in that thought.

The Purpose: To transcend the given!

Crazy by Gnarls Barkley was without any doubt one of the super hits this summer. But, hearing it over and over again (although I still like it) can make it a little worn out.

That’s why I was jumping out of happiness when my good friend Trine sent me a link to Nelly Furtado’s cover of Crazy, which has a nice jazzy, singer/songwriter feel to it. You can listen to it online here.

And — if you haven’t bought it already, you need to go get Nelly’s latest album Loose.

PS: The headline for this post is, of course, from the lyrics of Crazy — the song — and has nothing to do whatsoever with the beautiful photograph of Nelly. Really. :-)

The best case competition in the world — at least I think so :-) — is now blogging about everything from organising the competition itself over the life of the organisers to competition tips and tricks… you name it. The entire organising committee will be blogging.

CBS Case Competition is the first on the planet to blog — we define case competitions :-). It is the work of the PR/Marketing and IT groups of the organising committee, and I am really impressed with the speed and professionalism with which they have carried it out.

I hope you’ll go pay the blog a visit — I will be blogging both here and there — and participate via comments. Also have a look at my blog profile at the CBS Case Competition blog.

One of my best friends, Christoffer Husted Rasmussen, is on exchange at New York University this Fall. Being abroad is an excellent excuse to start a blog, and of course, Christoffer went right along and did so — welcome to the blogosphere Christoffer :-). So far, he has nice stories and photographs from New York City. Boy, do I miss it!

This photograph is from the Awards Banquet of the CBS Case Competition 2006 in March. Christoffer is the one on the right.

Tom Peters (In Search of Excellence, The Pursuit of Wow!) runs an extremely read-worthy blog. Some days ago, a post drew my attention to an article Tom had written in Liberation Management called The Pursuit of Luck. He puts forward 50 rules that you can follow, if you want to get more lucky. Here are some of my favourites:

1. At-bats. More times at the plate, more hits.
6. Visit odd places. Want to “see” speed? Visit CNN.
17. Constantly reorganize. Mix, match, try different combinations to shake things up.
34. Spread confusion in your wake. Keep people off balance, don’t let the ruts get deeper than they already are.
40. Vary your pattern. Eat a different breakfast cereal. Take a different route to work.
45. Get out of your office. Tell me, honestly, the last time something inspiring or clever happened at that big table in your office?!

Boy is he right! You can read the entire article here.

Finally, I got around to doing my blogroll—I have made a separate page for it, which you can find under Links: Blogroll.

One of my friends, who is a serial entrepreneur, has a new project up his sleeve—and all of us who love nice clothes should thank him for this wonderful idea: Opening a Hugo Boss Outlet in Copenhagen. Could it be more genius? (Think Chandler of Friends, when you read the previous question.)

Go to Boss Online, his web site, to learn more.

The first premise
One of the blogs that I subscribe to is Overheard in New York, which refers small conversations, tid-bits, and what have you that have been, well, overheard in the Big Apple. I think it is hilariously funny–and–having lived in New York City myself, it helps me drive down memory lane once in a while.

The second premise
Another one of my favourite sites on the web is Google Maps–and especially derivative sites such as the GMap Pedometer and FindVej (Danish). The site is lightning fast compared to other map services on the web.

Conclusion
Why shouldn’t you map the conversations that have been overheard in New York City on a map? Well, someone did it, and they used Google Maps–they call it Overplot.

My blogging activity is still not up to normal pace. Feel free to attribute that to either (1) my computer being down, (2) the usual indoor inactivity (and outdoor activity) of summer time, (3) summer university–or any combination of the prior of your choosing :-).

Meanwhile, I found a very good post from Jeremy Zawodny on sense of accomplishment, and where you get it from. He divides personalities into the individual contributor, the team player, or the team leader/manager. I think the thoughts are very spot on, so go have a look at what he writes.

One of my friends (from my China trip this spring) has launched a new blog, and he is on fire!

Go check out what Blogger Jens is writing (so far in Danish only, I’m afraid :-) )

Management guru Tom Peters presented in London one of these days. Although I like Tom’s writing, his slides are not the prettiest on Earth. But they are worth while, and the ones from his London event is one of the best sets I’ve seen recently. In them, he treats topics such as:

• Women - and why they contribute/will contribute more to GDP growth than emerging markets (the BRIC countries) or the Internet
• Washing your hands - is the single best thing you can do to stay free of diseases
• “Nobody gives you power. You just take it!”

And much, much more. They are really worth while, so go have a look, a laugh, and gain some insights (albeit, not from slide design :-) ). Here is the link.

For some reason, I love personality tests (well, not all—it really is a jungle out there). I recently bumped into a good one called Personal DNA, which also makes a nice graphic illustration (DNA profile you could call it) of your personality.

Mine looks like this:

…which makes me a Benevolent Creator. Try it out yourself at http://www.personaldna.com/ and let me know how you fared :-).

Super Bowl XL–XL has to stand for extra large: What a blast and what a game! Congratulations to the Steelers. We could’ve had a better half-time show, though.

One of the very exciting things about the Super Bowl is also the commercials. However, in Denmark it is illegal to interrupt programmes with commercials (you can only send commercials in between the programmes). So when all the cool commercials take the screen in the US, we have to listen to our Danish commentators. Hoorah (or not).

In contrast to last year, Google Video is here this time around. And of course the Super Bowl XL Commercials are on Google Video.

From the book Karaoke Capitalism (by the authors of Funky Business:

- In 1998, CBS, Fox and ABC paid $12.8 billion to broadcast National Football League (NFL) games until 2005. The very same year the Minnesota Vikings franchise was sold for $250 million. In fact, the three networks could have bought all 30 NFL teams and had free broadcast rights forever. They didn’t.

Unless there is more to this story than this, it a big Oops. Read more fun quotes at Stefan’s Karaoke Capitalism post.

Guy Kawasaki is off to a flying start, after he started blogging just before we turned into 2006. Read his latest post on the Top Ten Lies of Venture Capitalists.

My sister has started a blog about Illustrator. She has never used the application before; hence she will take readers from the very beginning to—hopefully—some very cool tutorials when that time comes. Her first post.

Good luck and have fun, Charlotte.

I just read one of the best blond jokes, I’ve ever read. Check it out.

In the buzz of web 2.0, I had heard about a service called del.icio.us for some time now—actually for a very long time. And I had gone to their website several times to see what this was about, but every time I found myself leaving their website, because of lack of intuitive design, explanation of purpose, and clarity of contribution to the user. Well, call me a late adapter or whatever you want, but now I finally signed up. And I love it.

• del.icio.us is a web service where you save all of your bookmarks online, so you can access them from any computer. That’s not new. What’s great about the service, however, is:del.icio.us makes it extremely easy to find your bookmarks again, because you “tagged” them with a number of keywords of your choice and saved them in a flat hierarchy. The easy retrieval of your bookmarks is one of the real advantages.
• Super fast and easy saving of bookmarks is also a huge advantage, because saving a bookmark, then, does not become an obstacle. Further, if you run Firefox and install the del.icio.us extension, you are really rolling.
• You can browse everyone else’s bookmarks—on the fly. So you really know what moves the web (and/or the world, for that matter) the second you surf. This can also be done by keywords, of course.

So I like this web service a lot. It also makes it a lot easier for me to do my links page, right here on my blog. If you visit it, you will see a lot of output coming directly out of my del.icio.us bookmarks, most notably the tag cloud. The tag cloud contains all the different keywords I have assigned to my bookmarks. The biggest and brightest are the keywords that have been assigned to bookmarks most often. Go explore it on my links page.

Creative flash animation–and a different way to make a clock. The ClockBlock1.0.