December 2008
57 posts
Podcast: Radio Lab on Choice
“Why do some people seem better at making decisions than others? Should you listen to your head or your heart? We turn up the volume on the voices in our heads and try to make sense of the babble.”
Radio Lab takes on Choice
Laughter + Gender
According to Vanderbilt professor Jo-Anne Bachorowski, who has recorded more than 30,000 laughs, women laugh more frequently and at a higher pitch in the company of men than in the company of other women, even when they’re reacting to the exact same material (in this case, funny movies).
via the Radio Lab Blog
November 2008
57 posts
Cornershop / Jullandar Shere
Sensaçao / Capoeira
The dopest phone out there →
This is going to be tight!
Jay Sean / Got My Eyes On You
Dhol Jageero Da
Apache Indian / Pyaar Pyaar (bhangra flava mix)
Shankar Mahadevan / Breathless
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“There are many things that you can use the mind for. Many, many things. Except...”
– Eckart Tolle
Why we need a recession
Peter Schiff on Michael Savage show talking about why we absolutely need a recession.
Part I and Part II
Peter and Michael aren’t very favorable to Obama’s economic plan, but in this case I’m on board with the reasoning.
Michael’s analogy of the fever is also pretty clutch.
WatchRyan Leslie playing “Heartless” Ondaspot via Kanye West Blog
India Facts
Via Planet India
India is the world’s fourth-largest economy.
By 2034, India will be the most populous country on Earth, with 1.6 billion people.
India’s middle class is already larger than the entire population of the United States.
One out of three of the world’s malnourished children live in India.
India is home to the biggest youth population on earth:
600 million...
Kanye's Latest A Deeply Personal Departure →
NPR review
How to (authentically) make money using the... →
A must read for anyone seriously thinking about building a business or presence online
"Just doing my job" by Seth Godin
via Seth Godin
What a bogus excuse.
If you take a job, you’ve bought into what the company does. You’re responsible.
If you work for a company headed off a cliff, hey, you’re going too. The fact that you’re just doing your job doesn’t make unemployment any better. And if the company is hurting people or the world you operate in, it doesn’t matter who told you...
Q&A with Ron Paul, hosted by freakonomics
Part ONE - Part TWO
via Jason Fried
One more Peter Schiff interview
Peter Schiff on Bloomber News: Part I - Part II
NPR's Planet Money: Peter Schiff Is Warning You →
Peter Schiff was right — that’s the message on YouTube. The president of Euro Pacific Capital and frequent TV commentator spent the past few years telling anyone who’d listen that America was heading for a recession. Now he tells us what he expects next.
“The recession is the medicine that we need to rebuild our economy. It needs to...”
– Peter Schiff
WatchOh man this is funny! via Sandeep Sood
Here’s another one from the same guys: Obama Bandwagon and Chaos
WatchSlumdog Millionare cast on the Today Show
“Shaquille O’Neal had a problem. An Internet impostor using his name was sending...”
– The Real O’Neal Puts His Cyber Foot Down
Freedom Exercises →
What up Tolle!?
Dhrumil: what up Eckhart? What's pop'n brother?
Eckhart: Oh just the usual. You, know... the present moment and what not.
Dhrumil: True. So you excited to see Obama in office?
Eckhart: Oh yes! Now Oprah will finally stop sending me text messgaes... At least for a little while.
Dhrumil: ya man, I know what you mean. It's always 21 question with that one. You would think she would get it already. I mean what's so hard about not thinking?
Eckhart: You said it, not me.
Dhrumil: lol
Eckhart: Wait... you aren't posting this on your blog, are you?
Dhrumil: No, of course not bro!
Eckhart: well, even if you do it's not like anyone visits your site anyway!
Dhrumil: that's cold man! Just cause you've sold like 10 million books...
Eckhart: 11 million, and that isn't my ego talking. I'm just trying to keep the facts straight. Nah I mean?
Dhrumil: hah, ok player. Anyway, I gotta make a green smoothie. Tell the family I said what's up.
Eckhart: Peace. Oh, and be sure to use honey instead of agave. Honey awakens the kundalini.
Aziz Ansari’s ‘Glow In The Dark’ Groupie...
FRIDAY:
I Fly into Chicago for the night. My friend Nick Kroll is opening this show for me and we rent a car to drive to Notre Dame on Saturday. We have a night to kill in Chicago.
We hit up the delicious Blackbird for dinner. While we are there, a woman comes up to our table and asks if I’m R&B superstar Usher.
I say, “No, unfortunately, I’m not Usher.” “Wow, you really look like Usher!”
...
Satire In Your Stocking With 'A Colbert Christmas' →
Self-proclaimed “broadcasting legend” Stephen Colbert discusses his upcoming Comedy Central special, A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All. A take-off on the old holiday specials of yore, it will feature guests Toby Keith, Jon Stewart and Willie Nelson.
“If someone offers to sell you the secret system, don’t buy it. If you need...”
– Seth Godin on Too good to be true (the overnight millionaire scam)
Danny Boyle's Mumbai: 'A City In Fast-Forward' →
It’s a rags-to-riches story in which an orphan boy from the slums of Mumbai makes it big on the Indian version of the game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
Now that i believe / Q-Tip
“If Obama was watching The Wire carefully, he could learn a lot about foreign...”
– What Obama Can Learn from The Wire (via paulscheer)
Yeah, no way I wasn’t reblogging this!
(via azizisbored)
WatchShaking hands with the Devil
Political scientist Samantha Power tells the story of a complicated hero, Sergio Vieira de Mello. This UN diplomat walked a thin moral line, negotiating with the world’s worst dictators to help their people survive crisis. It’s a compelling story told with a fiery passion.
Slumdog Millionaire →
Winner of the 2008 Toronto Film Festival People’s Choice Award, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE is the story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”
Newsweek's in-depth report on the 2008 election →
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Newsweek’s in-depth report on the 2008 election
If you followed or were at all interested in the 2008 presidential election, this seven-part series by a group of Newsweek reporters is a must read. The reporters were granted exclusive access to the campaigns of Barack Obama, John McCain, and Hillary Clinton for a year on the condition that they...
[Music] Black Genius by Dhalak, see the video...