January 2009
50 posts
Listening Is an Act of Love →
Listen to any of hundreds of stories, drawn from the more than 17,000 conversations StoryCorps recorded across the country. Simply lovely.
WatchMy friend Frank Lipman MD
Tolle on The Hour →
Interview with Flight Of The Conchords Co-Creator... →
Noticing →
Watch“Homecoming” John Forte and Talib Kweli
Your Tax Dollars at Work →
Did you know that many big box retailers, like Wal-Mart and Target, have deals with local communities to keep the sales tax you’re charged when you shop at their stores? Or that large public utilities collect taxes but scarcely pay them? For example, a utility in Portland, Oregon collected $900 million in taxes over ten years but paid less than $1 million. It’s all legal, but journalist David Cay...
WatchThe tone of the chick doing the interview is a little funny. She reminds me of all the others fools playing the market short term and worrying so much about the economy and facy words.
Keep it simple shorty!
via Dan
I love watching Buffett and his frank straight forward answers. He keeps his recommendations close to his chest and does not give stock recommendations unlike so many talk shows on...
The Real Rosa Parks →
Via On The Media: At inaugural festivities this week, attendees honored civil rights leader Rosa Parks. But popular culture has painted a picture of Parks that doesn’t accurately portray who she was. In this excerpt of an interview that originally aired in 2005, Duke Divinity School Professor Tim Tyson explains that Parks was far from a meek old woman who just happened to change history.
1,474 megapixel photo of Obama's Inauguration →
via Jon
WatchThis was freaking hilarious!
mysaladdays:
Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it)
Confession: I personally have never watched an entire Star Wars movie (always fell asleep). I did, however, watch the last prequel. This is about my level of understanding of the whole saga…
“The team members, accustomed to working on Macintoshes, found computers...”
– Obama Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages
Damn! I know I’d shoot myself if I was forced to go back to Microsoft. Geez, might as well go back to pigeon post or freaking smoke signals.
Weakness
Obama and Stillness and Inspiration
Spreading The Hope: Street Artist Shepard Fairey →
Via Fresh Air:
Fresh Air from WHYY, January 20, 2009 · Shepard Fairey’s illustration of Barack Obama was one of the most iconic images of the campaign — Obama’s face and the word “hope” rendered in red, white, and blue.
Fairey says he made the image to spur voters’ belief in Obama as a leader. The image was never officially adopted by the campaign, however, because...
“Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. on the power of service
“Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before, that the method of...”
– Martin Luther King Jr quote from lost tapes found from his India visit 50 years ago
Martin Luther King Recording on the Power of... →
In February and March 1959, Dr. Martin Luther King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, traveled throughout India. Nearly 50 years after that visit, staff at All India Radio discovered a message taped by Doctor King. In it, he emphasizes his intellectual debt to Mahatma Gandhi’s message of nonviolent social action.
My most favorite thing to do
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“Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize...”
– Lao Tzu
How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a... →
I don’t do stocks, but this is a facinating read
The Rise And Fall Of The Music Industry →
NPR: Rolling Stone contributing editor Steve Knopper chronicles the rise of the record industry — and its subsequent digital-age collapse — in his new book, Appetite For Self-Destruction.
Good Night / Kanye + Mos Def / Good Night (Plain...
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Spirituality, Not Religion, Makes Kids Happy →
The link between spirituality and happiness is pretty well-established for teens and adults. More spirituality brings more happiness. Now a study has reached into the younger set, finding the same link in “tweens” and in kids in middle childhood.
Specifically, the study shows that children who feel that their lives have meaning and value and who develop deep, quality relationships —...
Associated Press: FDA scientists complain to Obama... →
welikeitraw:
“The purpose of this letter is to inform you that the scientific review process for medical devices at the FDA has been corrupted and distorted by current FDA managers, thereby placing the American people at risk,” said the letter, dated Wednesday and written on the agency’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health letterhead.
Twitter
fred-wilson:
Twitter is where the influential people are because, hey, if you’re going to speak, might as well do it in a place where everybody is automatically allowed to hear you.
Originally posted as a comment by NathanBowers on Phil Pearlman using Disqus.
WatchThe Story of India - Full Broadcast Schedule
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The Story of India →
In this landmark six-part series for PBS and the BBC, Michael WOod embarks on a dazzling and exciting journey through today’s India, “seeing in the present for clues to her past, and in the past for clues to her future.”
This is how them spiritual players get down!
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Common's Mixtape →
A Conversation with Malcolm Gladwell about Success →
Malcolm Gladwell on Charlie Rose. 30 minutes.
WatchSlowing down in a world built for speed (thx Priya)
very timely around this time of year.
Lori Painter wants to become even hotter →
My friend Lori Painter is on a mission to become an even hotter mom. Big ups Lori!