Electricity Free Bulbs

Stuart Brown: Why play is vital -- no matter your age

Shift Happens

History of Cup Noodles and Lessons for Startups - Ignite Talk by Jason Grigsby

[From: BoingBoing]

Leacture on Theory of War as Conducted in Starcraft

From: Boing Boing

Video - How to Make Good Decisions

Take 48 mins off your day to watch this.

Actually, its so good that you should just bump 48 mins off something less important to watch it:

We are bad at making decisions. According to science, our decisions are based on oversimplification, laziness and prejudice. And that's assuming that we haven't already been hijacked by our surroundings or led astray by our subconscious!

Featuring exclusive footage of experiments that show how our choices can be confounded by temperature, warped by post-rationalisation and even manipulated by the future, Horizon presents a guide to better decision making, and introduces you to Mathematician Garth Sundem, who is convinced that conclusions can best be reached using simple maths and a pencil!

Sir Ken Robinson Interviewed by Riz Khan

Much like the TED Video, a delightfully refreshing insight into the modern education system. Take 20 minutes off for this one.


Part 1:


Part 2:



[via: Presentation Zen]

Google Talk - No Time to Think

Vannevar Bush's 1945 article, "As We May Think," has been much celebrated as a central inspiration for the development of hypertext and the World Wide Web. Less attention, however, has been paid to Bush's motivation for imagining a new generation of information technologies; it was his hope that more powerful tools, by automating the routine aspects of information processing, would leave researchers and other professionals more time for creative thought. But now, more than sixty years later, it seems clear that the opposite has happened, that the use of the new technologies has contributed to an accelerated mode of working and living that leaves us less to think, not more. In this talk I will explore how this state of affairs has come about and what we can do about it.

How to create a great PowerPoint without breaking the (US) law.

Picked this up from the CITations blog:





[more: Alvin Trusty]

Carmine Gallo on learning from Steve Jobs

Carmine Gallo on learning from Steve Jobs, highlighting the steps you can take to improve your own presentation:







[more : Carmine Gallo's Website]

[via: PresentationZen]

The Pirate's Dilemma

| View | Upload your own

Kinda has similiar thoughts before

[via: BoingBoing ]

PBS Frontline - The Secret of Credit Card

Another documentary about the dark side of these plastic cards:

PBS Frontline - The Secret of Credit Card

Robert Frank's @Google talk

Great talk by Economist Robert Frank at Google about economic basics and how instruction has chosen the more complex approach to it.

Take-home lesson: Keep things simple.

Did MDA just manage to go viral?

Wow ... MDA's rap video even managed to hit Techcrunch. They may have actually gotten something going for them here...

In spite of some critics denoucing them for making this video, I seem to think that it was done at least partially in response to some earlier comments made to them like "censorship is done by faceless people"...

In any case, I would have never believed that the word "KPI" could appear in a rap but yeah, I stand corrected.





(29-Nov Update : They also hit Neatorama )

Video: Money as Debt

A quick peek at where money really comes from and how monetary policy works:

For Perfect Teamwork ...

Look no further the traditional art form of Lion Dancing.

An Inside Look At Google China

Kai-Fu Lee, Greater China President, visited the Seattle area Google office on January, 17, 2007 to talk about the current development of Google in China. He spoke about the challenges and opportunities facing Google China as well as collaboration between the Seattle/Kirkland and China offices.

Guy Kawasaki's Interview with Steve Wozniak

This summary is not available. Please click here to view the post.

More Videos on How Things are Made!

Well, just found this site where there are more videos on how cool stuff are made from the National Association of Manufacturers blog.

Amongst the videos they have are:

How Silly Putty is Made
How Trumpets are Made
How the USS George H. W. Bush was Made
How Ice Cream is Made
How the Honda Cog Commercial was Made
How Baseball Bats are Made

Go check out the rest of the videos at: ShopFloor.org: The Manufacturers Blog!

Videos on How Things are Made!

Well, if you're one of those curious nuts (like me) who likes to see how stuff are made, you're in for a treat cos here's a whole list of videos on exactly that:

How Bubblegum is Made
How Steel Safes are Made
How Toothpicks are Made
How Mail Processing is Done
How Kayaks are Made
How Jeans are Made
How Holograms are Made
How Helicopters are Made

and many more over at DailyMotion

[props to Greedy123 for the video uploads!]