Maria Popova TED mashups
Monday, March 29th, 2010 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »As you can see from (a lot of) previous posts I'm a big fan of what's happening a the TED conferences. Money and the fact that I'd have to fly keep me from going there, but luckily they have all ...
Bert and Ernie Gangsta-Rap
Thursday, March 25th, 2010 Posted in Creativity | 1 Comment »This is not an 'official' Muppet video; it turns out there still a Muppet Show channel on Youtube with a lot of funny Muppet stuff, like Beaker's Ballad: Of course, Statler and Waldorf are the best...
T-shirt war!
Sunday, March 21st, 2010 Posted in Creativity | 1 Comment »You can also look at the 'Making of':
The power of TED
Friday, March 19th, 2010 Posted in Taking a stand | No Comments »Since a little more than a year, TED conferences are being held all over the world in the form of TEDx events. Read the amazing story of Masarat Daud bringing TED to Fatehpur in India. Maybe this post has an incorrect title. It should ...
I have seen a thousand faces
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »This blog is called Beauty of people. Here is an expression of that phrase: a selection of the hundreds of faces in the Coronet magazine from september 1949. See also Drama in the courtroom from the April 1947 issue.
Holi
Friday, March 12th, 2010 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »On 1. March Holi, the Festival of Colors, was celebrated again. I remember years ago when we were trekking through Nepal, we arrived back in the city of Khandbari right on the day of Holi. At first the kids did not ...
This too shall pass
Saturday, March 6th, 2010 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »That's the title of a lovely music video bij OK Go: Synnlabs made the Ruby Goldberg machine used in the video.
State of the internet
Saturday, March 6th, 2010 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »Jesse Thomas ('Jess3') made this video about the current size of internet: There's some amazing numbers in there. One I don't like: 81% of email is spam. One I like: you are currently reading one of the 126 million blogs available worldwide.
