July 2nd 2010
iPhone 4 vs HTC EVO 4
ROFL!
Archive for the 'Culture' Category
June 15th 2010
Insightfull comment…
In a article about Wave:
I saw this comment…:
Right now it’s one more possibly useful option that just isn’t important enough to remember.
I think this is a very insightfull comment. It signals the growing problem I face as well. What is still important enough to follow? How can you sieve important sites/trends amongst the enormous amount on offer? It also means that any site hoping to attract a large number of visitors is facing a increasingly steep climb… It is very hard to get noticed no matter what you do.
Of course, the number of people on the internet is also growing, but I think they tend to go for the ‘well known’ sites…
May 31st 2010
Sometimes, I wanna cry…
Please, buy this book…. would you?
I think the humor is worth posting this one :)
November 25th 2009
The man who said no to Wallmart
A very interesting article of the the CEO of a company that makes lawn mowers:
Link
The guy had the guts to actually say no to a offer by Wallmart! You gotta love his decision. I strongly reminds me of my dad, who makes stringed musical instruments, who once refused to sell to somebody who was not planning on playing on the instrument. he only wanted to by one to hang it on the wall as a ornament. That was not going to happen :-)
Anyway, the article describes what I think is one of the mayor problems at the moment of our planet: the fact that a lot of people buy stuff in the fully expecting to replace it within a year. This is never sustainable, and is wrecking our planet :-(
April 7th 2009
Religion is like a large dog…
Religion is like a very large dog. Comforting when it’s yours, terrifying when it’s not, and must be kept away from the children.
I heard it on the BBC today… way to go!
February 26th 2009
Designer babies are comming…
Although In Vitro Fertilizations were originally designed to help parents that were unable to conceive children naturally, Steinberg says that a staggering 70% of their clients have absolutely no difficulty conceiving children, coming to the Institute purely for opportunity to choose the sex of their baby.
And now, the selection-criteria are just expanding, right down to eyecolor, color of your hair etc…
The strangest thing is, that this can be done within he laws as they are at the moment, apparently. You would have thought that there would be a law against it, but there is not.
I’m not entirely sure I am really that much against it, either. If people are willing to pay $18.000,- just to be sure of the sex of their baby, why not let them?
February 9th 2009
Something to think about…
From the newspaper story that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. It appeared in The Washington Post and was written by Gene Weingarten.
A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin;it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.
Three minutes went by and a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried up to meet his schedule.
A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and without stopping continued to walk. A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work.
The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother tagged him along, hurried but the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.
In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while.
About 20 gave him money but continued to walk their normal pace. He collected $32.
When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it.
No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.
No one knew this but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars. Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theater in Boston and the seats averaged $100.00 each.
This is a real story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and priorities of people.
The outlines were: in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?
One of the possible conclusions from this experience could be: If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing some of the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing?
February 2nd 2009
Ten YouTube Comments Translated into Standard English
LOL – the title says all….
o, gawd…ya dont kno how retarded you ar do you!!??haha…emo…maybe tats wat you ar and tats why yur sayin tat…yur jus tryin to deny it huh!? im surprised you even kno the word 2000!!! haha!!! n00b!!! SLIPKNOT PWNZ and MAGGOT 4 LIFE!!!!!!
Try translating that…!
February 2nd 2009
Revelation in the VS: sex-education should be…. about sex!
OWL is among a handful of sex-ed programs that take a position more radical than it may, at first, sound: namely, that sexuality education should actually talk about sex.
Fucking (punt intended!) amazing… that they figured this out! I’m shocked…!
January 30th 2009
Cold reading – using language to trick people
Richard Dawkings interviews a Illusionist, who explains how ‘clearvoiants’ get their information. And still people believe there are people that can know things in a ‘paranormal’ way…