October 2009
8 posts
September 2009
16 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27) →
Red Hot Chili Peppers (34)
Kid Cudi (33)
Bonerama (13)
John Mayer Trio (13)
Madlib (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“I know it’s easy to imagine.
But it’s easier to just do.
See, if...”
– Kid Cudi
News/Gatherings: September 23
Last Words — of the not-so-famous. “Give me my rights. Give me my rights. Give me my rights. Give me my life back.”
“I am, literally watching paint dry while I give directions to the tow truck driver half way around the world.” — Communication is being made easier and easier each year, that we all have the opportunity to become masters of it, and you will be left behind if...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-20) →
Kid Cudi (19)
Coldplay (10)
Terry Urban (7)
The Fray (7)
David Guetta (7)
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“One must have beauty, without beauty there is nothing.”
– Eddie Izzard (via RAGE promo)
News/Gatherings: September 16
Essential Media Literacies – “include: Attention, Participation, Collaboration, and Critical Consumption” (via @sophielab)
President Obama, Always Remember Media Training Rule #1 — With Obama calling KanYe West a “jackass”, Schwartz PR reminds us of two important media rules: #1 “Nothing is off the record.”, and “Rule #2 is a variation on the theme -...
Norman Borlaug has died
Norman Borlaug has died, the man responsible for GMF and saving more than 245m people worldwide thanks to the improved crop yields.
“Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.” —Norman Borlaug
Norman Borlaug died two days ago. Chances...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-13) →
Coldplay (16)
Bonerama (10)
Terry Urban (9)
American Public Media (9)
Kid Cudi (7)
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News/Gatherings: September 12
Mapping the Seven Deadly Sins — I left the Lust capital of the US to move to the Greed capital.
The OLPC is dead. (per the UN dispatch). And Timothy Ogden (editor-in-cheif of Philanthropy Action) reminds us that doing other things (like improving the overall health of children) results in better education than laptops. I’m still a fan of going “naked” in the classroom, sans the...
Kai Ryssdal on faith in the financial system:...
News/Gatherings: September 8
What the experts chose for their kids’ education — Their answer? No schooling. Or rather, unschooling. Interesting concept on education, although I’d imagine you’d have to do some pretty extensive work to match the social skills that the standard education system provides.
Still crazy after all these years — Dontcha love the First Amendment? We have to fight for the right of...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-6) →
Coldplay (15)
John Mayer (10)
Snow Patrol (7)
The Raconteurs (7)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (5)
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WatchThe inventor of the THX standard imagines a large-scale soundproofing system for urban environments.
WatchZe Frank attempting to explain health care reform… and realizes that it’s hard to do.