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The Future by Al Gore
I just finished reading Al Gore’s book The Future. The book was based on 6 themes or what he refers to as “drivers” of the future: economic globalization, the digital revolution, climate change, dwindling natural resources, shifts in the global balance of power and advances in the life sciences. I do not care about Al […]
24 Hours of Happy
Pharrell has made a 24-hour music video of people dancing and lip-syncing that’s a cross between Christian Marclay’s The Clock and Girl Walk // All Day. Via Kottke
You Are Beautiful
http://youtu.be/iYhCn0jf46U Cheers to Tim Piper for making this short but powerful piece on the manufactured “beauty” that people are programmed to strive for. Young girls see images on billboards and in commercials and they’re programmed into thinking, “Her photo is on a billboard. She’s in a commercial. People must think she’s beautiful, I want to […]
Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech
One of our readers sent us a message saying,“Reading Steve Jobs’ commencement speech is a very lucid practice. Even if you’ve done it before like I’m sure both of you might have.” Click to read (not watch) the transcript of Steve Jobs’ epic Stanford commencement speech. We encourage you to read the transcript but if you […]