Free brain wrinkles are great. It doesn’t happen often. Just ask my $150,000 bachelor’s degree (FML).
You could spend years sifting through hundreds of thousands of podcasts, or you take advantage of the work I’ve already done and listen to the following: 3 podcasts that will make you stop what you’re doing and listen with sheer vigor to the words being said. These are the 3 best podcast episodes I’ve ever heard.
First, we have Stephen Fry–actor, writer, comedian, author, Twitterer–an all around enthusiast of the first degree. And his podcast on language (yes, just general language) will make you practically clamber to use your tongue (for good, not evil). Fry is an almost superhuman wordsmith, with a love for the spoken word that will infect you, and you’ll want it to. Subscribe to his podcast, there’s a lot there, but this is one of the three best episodes of any spoken word I’ve heard.
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Living the dream:
This made me brainswoon. Enjoy.
http://www.vimeo.com/6045312by Esteban Diácono. Via the ever-wonderful SwissMiss
Why don’t we think more like this?
Money quote:
The study indicates that using existing products and practices, such as weatherizing homes or installing combined heat and power systems, could result in significant savings by 2020, however, there are number of barriers, including the up-front cost, a fragmented array of products covering hundreds of thousands of buildings and billions of devices, and a lack of awareness that efficiency exists as a “fuel source” itself, McKinsey consultants said during a press conference, reports CNET news.
Emphasis added, by me, b/c I’m into emphasizing.
Haven’t posted in quite a long time, partly because of business, partly because of a lack of gusto or joie de vivre in my life of late.
Then I saw this. It’s a mixed media opinion piece in the NYT.
Read the whole thing, but the money quote is:
Everything is invented.
Language. Childhood. Careers.
Relationships. Religion.
Philosophy. The future.
They are not there for the plucking.
They don’t exist in some
natural state.
They must be invented by people.
And that, of course, is a great thing.
Don’t mope in your room.
Go invent something.
That is the American Message.
Electricity. Flight. The telephone.
Television. Computers. Walking on
the moon. It never stops.
It captures all the things I think are right with humanity. It made me smile so wide my face almost broke. It made me excited.
There’s way more Ben Franklin where that came from. (via metacool)
Just watch this. Watch this and love life. This and some bacon could cure any hangover.
If you’re reticent, it’s a T-Mobile UK ad that got a trillion people to sing “Hey, Jude” in Trafalgar Square.
Hallo Gang! Just wanted to point your looking-balls to a psychedelic new ad campaign Mattel has commissioned in the French market. Don’t know how popular Scrabble is in Île-de-France, but these ads are enough to make me fall in love and move there.
Brought to my attention by the delightful illustration blog, Drawn.
It’s official. I’m an Obama fanboy. This put me over the top:
