Colbert and Kamen Solve the World’s Water Problems | Wired Science from Wired.com
1000 litres of pure clean water from just about any liquid? Apparently so.
(tags: Economics environment water design)
Bush Vows To Remove Toxic Petroleum From National Parks | The Onion
Classic Onion
(tags: hilarious funny Propaganda)
The Center for Graphic Facilitation: IDEO Method Cards
(tags: design creativity)
Creative Generalist
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T H E
M A N U A L
(HOW TO HAVE A NUMBER ONE THE EASY WAY)
THE JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF MU MU
REVEAL THEIR ZENARCHISTIC METHOD USED
IN MAKING THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPEN.
KLF 009B
1988 (YOU KNOW WHAT’S GONE)
TEXT BY:
LORD ROCK AND TIME BOY
A.K.A. THE TIMELORDS
A.K.A. ROCKMAN ROCK AND KINGBOY D.
A.K.A. THE JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF MU MU
A.K.A. THE JAMS
A.K.A. THE [...]
Whilst reading about an art exhibition that compared Chinese Culture and German Culture in pictograms, I was referred to a flash video about the differences between Europeans and Italians. It is hilarious.
Italy Video Italian vs. Europeans
Whilst escorting some friends from the UK around Belgrade yesterday, I came across a wonderful addition to the Balkan Whorehouse Chic collection when one of the pointed at this display and said “Look at that, Prostitute’s uniforms!”
I noticed later that even the mannequins have fake breasts.
Ever since I read Timothy D. Wilson’s magnificent “Strangers to Ourselves“, I have been fascinated with the fact that we often know less about ourselves than our closest friends and family (thanks probably to our many cognitive biases) .
Enter MIT’s Reality Mining Project:
[O]ur ultimate goal is to create a predictive classifier that [...]
From the ever superb Kevin Kelly, come this introduction to the documentary film Crazy Love:
Love is weird. This is a riveting story about a mutual love/hate relationship so obsessive, so disturbing, so insane, and yet in the end so conventional, that it challenges your own concept of love — and sanity. The guy [...]
The central tenet of those who support unrestricted mass immigration has long been its putative economic benefits.
When the social costs of mass immigration were pointed out, the Homo Economicus argument would be deployed.
I have long seen through the sham of this argument and I am on record slamming it regularly.
See or example:
Immigration sophistry debunked…again
The [...]
[Update: Not so fast folks! In an article sent to me by Steve over at BB Films, I see that professional divers are being advised to do CPR as usual (with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation). I think the consensus now is that if you cannot bring yourself to do mouth-to-mouth, then at least just do the compressions [...]
Discardia
Ger rid of it damnit
(tags: environment green health lifestyle lifehacks philosophy productivity psychology self-help)
Experts Seek Answers on Water Footprint - Examiner.com
It’s not only our carbon footprint we should worry about. Experts are looking for solutions to our growing water footprint, as urban populations explode and the demand for biofuels adds stress on water for farmland.
Nearly [...]