Starwatching
via Tinselman
via newseum.org, via Dave Winer
Creatively Speaking: Sir Ken Robinson on the Power of the Imaginative Mind (from Edutopia)
Sir Ken Robinson’s remarks were recorded on April 10, 2008, at the Apple Education Leadership Summit, a gathering in San Francisco of more than one hundred school superintendents from around the world. Robinson is the author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative. — via Tony Hirst (del.icio.us)
The ad is equipped with a camera that gathers details on passers-by. (Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times)
Satellite image of Ward Hunt Ice Shelf (Red lines: new cracks; yellow lines: cracks from 2002; blue lines: extent of the ice shelf)Vast cracks appear in Arctic ice — BBC News
In January of 2008 we announced that the Amazon Web Services now consume more bandwidth than do the entire global network of Amazon.com retail sites. Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos has been showing a chart of the relative bandwidth usage …Amazon Web Services Blog: Lots of Bit (via Fred Wilson)
Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page (via Joi)
Map of Africa c. 1898 with colonial claims. British possessions are in yellow and French possessions in pink.
via the Guardian
Above: Professor Stephen Hawking met South Africa’s former president, Nelson Mandela, in Houghton, Johannesburg, today. From left to right are Stephen Hawking, Neil Turok, Nelson Mandela, Pik Botha and David Block. Photograph by Dr Robert Groess.
TED | TEDBlog: Stephen Hawking meets Nelson Mandela for AIMS
“ There’s the television. It’s all right there — all right there. Look, listen, kneel, pray. Commercials! We’re not productive anymore. We don’t make things anymore. It’s all automated. What are we for then? We’re consumers, Jim. Yeah. Okay, okay. Buy a lot of stuff, you’re a good citizen. But if you don’t buy a lot of stuff, if you don’t, what are you then, I ask you? What? Mentally ill. Fact, Jim, fact — if you don’t buy things — toilet paper, new cars, computerized yo-yos, electrically-operated sexual devices, servo systems with brain-implanted headphones, screwdrivers with miniature built-in radar devices, voice-activated computers…
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Jeffrey Goines, in Twelve Monkeys (Wikiquote) — via comment on Nick Carr’s blog