Thursday, June 29, 2006
Water: Beyond Drinking
This video shows you the massive power water can become when H2O atoms are split into HHO gas. This gas can burn bronze and coal with the temperature of the sun, but, since it is so similar to water, you can touch it with your hand and not be hurt at all. The man who developed this technology designed an engine that allows his car to travel 100 miles on just 4 ounces of water! What paradigm would evolve as a result of this electolosis process being developed? What would happen to the world, the economy, our style and livelyhood when you could power an entire city with just a couple gallons of H2O a day? Investors, get ready...
Monday, June 26, 2006
We Feel Fine
Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.
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Anationalism
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Sunday, June 25, 2006
Esperanto - Open source language
There are cultural commonalities between Esperanto speakers, which is a distinctive feature of a cultural community. Esperanto was created to foster universal understanding, solidarity and peace. A large proportion of the Esperanto movement continue to hold such goals, and most are at least sympathetic to them. Additionally, many Esperantists use the language as a window to the larger world, to meet people from other countries on an equal footing, and for travel. The Esperanto-community has a certain set of shared background knowledge.
"nacio malpli"
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Saturday, June 24, 2006
Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down
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Friday, June 23, 2006
CANstruction
Canstruction an art project that uses cans of food to create scupture that is then dontated to charity. What's really cool about this is that it takes giving and turns it into an art form. What other kinds of charity organizations allow you to create something?
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Thursday, June 22, 2006
Iraq Casulties Interactive Map
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Zoomorphic Calligraphy
This practice established itself only relatively late in Islamic art, when the taboos outlawing religious iconography had lost some of their power.
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Istanbul Modern
Next time you are in Turkey check out Istanbul Modern.
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ninemillion.org
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How to Become a Travel Writer
Naive optimism, plenty of pluck and a dash of coincidence: that's all it takes to become a travel writer. Sit at Don's feet and find out how you too could get paid to tread the globe.
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Essays
- Grapes and Green Carpets
- Morning Routine
- The World is Soccer Ball Round
- Fire Mind
- The Last Poem
- Mangled Family Structures
- Hate...
- Story and Metaphor
- Poster Child
- Placemats
- Where's My Chicken and Rice?
- Beget Me
- Accented
- Fourteen Years
- Belonging
- InstaOffice
- Dream a Little Dream of the World
- Nationless Manifesto
- August 2003
- Doctorine of World Peace
- Talk to Strangers
- Me and My New Friend
- Difference
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
The Religious Policeman
There again... away again. The Religious Policeman shows an image of saudi that is unblinkingly honest and heartfelt. It's over now, the author has moved on to create a book. But the entries are still as amusing and insightful as they ever were. Go there and read the last post and say goodbye.
The diary of a Saudi man, currently living in the United Kingdom, where the Religious Police no longer trouble him for the moment.
In Memory of the lives of 15 Makkah Schoolgirls, lost when their school burnt down on Monday, 11th March, 2002. The Religious Police would not allow them to leave the building, nor allow the Firemen to enter.
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Monday, June 19, 2006
making cities that work
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How Soccer Explains the World
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Sunday, June 18, 2006
Saturday, June 17, 2006
Modern Nomads Magazine
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Thursday, June 15, 2006
Afghanistani Pamphlets
`by perfectlymadebirds
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BBC Languages
I recently revisited BBCs excellent website on learning languages. It's part of attempt to learn french. I'm crap at languages but I'll let you guys know how it goes.
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adidas fresco, Cologne
Is there no stopping Adidas and the world cup? On the ceiling of Hauptbahnhof train stain in Cologne, Germany, sits a work of art reminiscent of the sistine chapel. Michael Angelo would be proud.
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Travel Light
That's the best reason to pack light, but it's not the only one. By limiting ourselves to one carry-on, we can be off the plane and halfway to Boulevard Saint-Germain while others huddle expectantly around the luggage carousel. We don't worry that our checked bags will take an unplanned detour to Duluth or Dar es Salaam.
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Ronin Culture
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Putting the 'Desi' in Design
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Genocides
The minister of Defense of Belgium, Andre Flao, on Thursday signed an official report on Genocides in which he affirms that the worst genocide in the last 500 years was committed in North America. The sixteen page document was published commemoratively for the ten-year anniversary of the mass-murders in Rwanda in 1994, from which there were about 800,000 victims.
In the report, it is reported that as a result of the genocide perpetrated against the indigenous population of North America, since 1492, roughly 15,000,000 people were killed. Runner up is South America with about 14,000,000 victims among indigenous peoples since 1500. As reported by the press secretary for the Belgian Ministry of Defense, the report was based on information taken from the two-tome treatise "The Encyclopedia of Genocide," published by an Israeli Historian.
In case you're wondering. In relationship two the 15 million native americans that were killed 6 million jew were kiled in the holocast. Where are the movies about the native american holocast? Driving across the country I drove though a native american town. It was sad to see how dead and pointless it seemed. Kmart, macdonalds, community cafeterias. I wonder if they remember anything of their lost culture?
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Ballkünstler
Camel Library
Ships of the desert are the best way to travel in the Garissa area, some 400km from the capital, Nairobi.
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“One year” she said. “I give you one year before you lose your soul”.
That was curse with which I started the first week of my professional life. My youthfulness would be drained in a year’s time. A single year and my passion would be replaced with the simple drudgery of ‘getting things done’. My GTD to KTBR would suck the utter joy of creation away and leave behind a pragmatic desire to climb the ladder of success while picking away at the tree of wealth. I would, in the end, and not a moment too soon, be brought in line.
Who said this was the end?
I will not give my soul up without a fight. I cannot and will not give up the truest joy in my life. The joy of creativity and creation. People wonder why a God would create man. What was the purpose? I suspect I know what the purpose of it was. It was the joy of creation. There is nothing I feel that makes life more meaningful than that joy.
‘Joy’, not enthusiasm. Enthusiasm can be forced or faked. Joy, true joy, the measure of the souls happiness, cannot.
So how does one find ‘joy’ in the harsh realities of a business? Can you ever really stand there and say “No, I’m sorry I can’t do that it doesn’t bring joy to my work. I’m afraid that project may just steal my soul.”
Probably not the best tact to take.
Belief is what is needed. Not the kind that makes you repeat “I am a winner” in front of the mirror. Whiner belief. Nor the kind that closes her eyes and lays her head down on the chopping block. Headless chicken belief.
I believe in fire belief. The kind that warms your soul. It’s the kind that makes you give that irrepressible half smile. The kind of cocky impish smile you have before you jump off into the wild naked. The kind that fearlessly roars for you while you calmly explain how things are going to be. The kind that shines a torch to show you the way.
It’s not easy to have that belief. Not all the time. And that too is significant part of it. You cannot fool yourself into feeling it. The fire will not warm. Sometimes it may scare some others. Fire scares lesser creatures. You’ll learn to see it when you see the smile and flicker in the eyes. You’ll also learn to feel it with your mind.
So stand up for your profession and believe that fire belief. Breath fire. Start storms. Smile.
In fact, I’m smiling like that right now. It’s because I’m about to jump off this ladder of yours. I think I see an elevator. I am going to be fearless for a while longer while this solar powered belief rages on inside me.
Flame On.
Essay from Riaz.MindArtAdventureThursday, June 01, 2006
The Future...
Let those who still come around here let me know what you want to see happen?