May 2012
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January 2012
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“Like many others who had only followed Iraq’s recent history on television or...”
– Hamada Zahawi, in his article, TEDxBaghdad: Iraq is Infinity from AlJazeera
October 2011
2 posts
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. ...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 7
June 2011
2 posts
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Photo Essay: Trekking to Everest Base Camp
It all starts with a flight into the mountains. Lukla airport sits on the edge of a cliff with a runway that appears too short to be real. If the clouds come in, the pilots navigate using a Garmin GPS, which turns bright red for incoming mountains (center of photo).
Lukla is where nearly all trekkers and climbers begin their ascent to Mount Everest. The town seemingly exists solely to support...
April 2011
6 posts
March 2011
2 posts
January 2011
2 posts
December 2010
2 posts
Our digital personas have become so intricately embedded with our physical being, that it’s increasingly difficult to truly comprehend loss. For even if we lose someone, it is only a part of them that goes away. It’s not clear they are no longer reading our Facebook or Twitter posts, nor is it clear that our instant messages or email no longer reaches them. We as humans are only...
This is how holiday music should be done.
September 2010
1 post
Marco.org: Kindle 3 first impressions →
Best review of the Kindle 3 I’ve read so far. Just ordered mine. When I first started playing with my iPad, I thought I’d never go back to the Kindle. But extended reading on the iPad is too difficult, especially if you’re not in perfect light conditions. The iPad is a great device for traveling, watching Netflix in bed, or browsing the web on a lazy Sunday, but it’s not as...
August 2010
3 posts
July 2010
4 posts
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire...”
– E.B. White (via tmblg)
Duncan's Journal: There is No Turning Back →
Among the negative reactions I’ve seen to our work on the TEDxOilSpill Expedition, and our work to bring awareness of how big this disaster is, many can be summed up as: “Well, if you don’t like it, stop using your car! Don’t drive to the grocery store. Stop enjoying all the benefits of modern…
June 2010
5 posts
Duncan's Journal: TEDxOilSpill Expedition →
Yesterday, I tweeted and posted a Facebook status that I was going to the Gulf of Mexico to document what’s going on down there and to bring back images and stories to TEDxOilSpill. I’ve been ramping up for this for days, if not weeks, and you might have gotten the clue from my tweets and…
May 2010
1 post
March 2010
2 posts
“Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy...”
– The Internet? Bah! - Newsweek in 1995 (via ojacko)
It’s humorous how narrow-minded and wrong the author was. Negroponte has a gift of looking 10 or 20 years down the road at what’s possible (he showed off multi-touch interfaces at TED in 1984), while this guy was looking purely at what...
January 2010
2 posts
Interesting article on "stock and flow" and how it... →
I feel like flow is ascendant these days, for obvious reasons—but we neglect stock at our own peril. I mean that both in terms of the health of an audience and, like, the health of a soul. Flow is a treadmill, and you can’t spend all of your time running on the treadmill. Well, you can. But then one day you’ll get off and look around and go: Oh man. I’ve got nothing here.
But I’m not saying you...
December 2009
2 posts
November 2009
2 posts
October 2009
4 posts
“For fun, I placed a large message halfway through the newspaper: “Stop counting....”
– Be lucky - it’s an easy skill to learn (via ojacko)
My favorite part:
Personality tests revealed that unlucky people are generally much more tense than lucky people, and research has shown that anxiety disrupts people’s ability to notice the unexpected.
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And so it is with luck -...
“We live in a culture that has begun to prize the appearance of accomplishment...”
– Esquire editor David Granger in the most recent issue.
September 2009
16 posts
“Regardless of how you view Capitalism, Moore is absolutely right about one...”
– From a review of Michael Moore’s new movie in the City Paper.
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