Karen Armstrong: Charter for compassion
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in Taking a stand | 1 Comment »As she accepts her 2008 TED Prize, author and scholar Karen Armstrong talks about how the Abrahamic religions -- Islam, Judaism, Christianity -- have been diverted from the moral purpose they share to foster compassion. Something which may not always ...
Game over
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in Creativity | 2 Comments »You probably know these games: Pong, Space Invaders, Pole Position and Tetris Guillaume Reymond has 'redone' them in a very creative way in his Game Over project.
Isabel Allende: Tales of passion
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in Taking a stand | No Comments »Isabel Allende talks about writing, women, passion, feminism. She demands passionate hearts, people who ask questions, bend the rules, and take risks. "Empowering women will change everything, more than technology, design and entertainment." "What kind of a world do we want? A ...
FreeRice
Saturday, March 15th, 2008 Posted in Creativity, Taking a stand | No Comments »This is a remarkable site. You play a vocabulary game and while doing that generate money to buy rice that gets distributed via the United Nations World Food Programme. How this works is explained in the FAQ.
Improv Everywhere
Saturday, March 15th, 2008 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »These guys do amazing creative pranks. And not just pranks: look at what they did with their Frozen Grand Central Mission and their Food Court Musical. These are just works of art!
World’s Most Creative Buildings
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »Look at these amazing buildings at www.oddee.com ("A blog on the oddities of our world")
Sandor Teszler
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Taking a stand | No Comments »Ben Dunlap tells a story of Hungarians, Sandor Teszler, WW II, segregation in the US, how human beings are fundamentally good, and learning as if you live forever:
Great short movies (1)
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Creativity | 1 Comment »Two amazing Youtube videos: Me-girl (or see the full 3-minute version at Atomfilms) People in order by Lenka Clayton and James Price (from the Portable Film Festival) You gotta love these people beating the drums...
One laptop per child
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Taking a stand | No Comments »The OLPD project has really started last year. Mass production of the machines started in November 2007 with a first batch of 7-10 million. Uruguay started rolling out 98000 laptops, and Peru is expected to place an order for 260000. Look ...
TED: Ideas worth spreading
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Creativity, Smart thinking | No Comments »That is the slogan of this site. Highly recommended! As they say on the site: "Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers". TED began in 1984 as a conference devoted to the converging fields of Technology, Entertainment and Design. People ...
