History, and personal life, is messy, and rarely, if ever, proceeds by a straight line. It’s an admixture of wheat and chaff, while straining towards that vision. — reflection while reading American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll
Killer Whale versus Great White Shark: who wins?
Killer Whale.
Really interesting 50m video that goes into the why’s, and provides some neat information.
Orcas rock! :)
by yours truly; with C
ughjxnna:
OH MY GOD THIS CARD
I see a difference between: ‘the dignity of each person demands care for their basic health needs’, and: ‘human rights include life, liberty, and health insurance policies paid for by your employer.’ —
Had a cappuccino with C yesterday, and really enjoyed it.
I dunno - I may have to get into this coffee thing. :)
Two “Books” you should check out…
Withings Activité
A Swiss-made, smart watch with responsive glass, running/swimming/walking accelerometer, vibration alarm, sleep monitor, iOS integration, low energy Bluetooth, and one-year battery life.
Available later this year.
Tricks to Creating a High-Quality Video With Your iPhone | Entrepreneur.com
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? — :)
Carol Dweck - A Study on Praise and Mindsets - YouTube
by yours truly; with C
No true vocation starts with “what I want” or “a work I would like to do.” — Fulton J. Sheen (via marylikesbagels)
Fireworks shot with a GoPro camera strapped to a drone.
Funny how perspective changes things. (And how the drone apparently came away unscathed!) :)
(via sds)
davemorin:
JIBO: The World’s First Family Robot
isaia:
samati:
skeletales:
This is unexpectedly not about make-up haha
reblogged before it was even finished.
SUPREME
sufficientlyantique:
Remote physical interaction is the next great thing. Remote operated humanoid robots may be obviated by remote operated surfaces in many circumstances. For a first generation, this is very impressive. Successive generations of this technology are natural follow-ons, and will likely improve the resolution and sensitivity of the local and remote media, and perhaps add additional “senses” like haptic feedback and temperature.
Tangible Media MIT’s Tangible Media is coming along nicely, “Almost like a table of living clay, the inFORM is a surface that three-dimensionally changes shape, allowing users to not only interact with digital content in meatspace, but even hold hands with a person hundreds of miles away. And that’s only the beginning.”
It was said of one of the elders that he persevered in a fast of seventy weeks, eating only once a week. The elder ask God to reveal to him the meaning of a certain Scripture text, and God would not reveal it to him. So he said to himself: Look at all the work I have done without getting anywhere! I will go to one of the brothers and ask him. When he had gone out and closed the door and was starting on his way an angel of the Lord was sent to him, saying: The seventy weeks you fasted did not bring you any closer to God, but now that you have humbled yourself and set out to ask your brother, I am sent to reveal the meaning of that text. And opening to him the meaning which he sought, he went away. —
Quoted in Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert (via ayjay)
A lesson in greatness.
“There’s a difference between feeling good, and doing good.”
From the folks at PovertyCure, an 8m trailer for their 6-part DVD series on how to properly understand poverty, and truly change it.
For a more detailed description of PovertyCure’s philosophy, see the Statement of Principles.
Lives can be changed.