Peaksite
it's a bit like being forced to watch my home videos
by dave gardner
by dave gardner
» The secret to raising smart kids
Hint: Don‘t tell your kids that they are. More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort—not on intelligence or ability—is key to success in school and in life.
My Eclipse by Form of Audio
» 101 Uses for a John Howard
What does 30 years serving the battlers of Australia qualify John Howard to do with himself now that he is out of a job? Visit the website or buy the book and find out.
— via Stephen
A 35 minute Spore demo. I haven’t done any serious gaming for about 15 years. I’m really tempted by Spore.
» Psychological Optical Illusion
Reveals a little bit about how much our upbringing and culture influence our visual perception.
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Serve coffee. Coffee contains caffeine, which makes people cheerful. If you‘re lucky, they‘ll attribute their cheeriness to your software instead of the caffeine.
Magdalene by Amanda Bloom
» Benign militarization of the climate
Then again, maybe we shouldn‘t be blasting chemicals into the sky…perhaps we leave well enough alone a system that‘s worked pretty well for the last billion or so years.
» Support Wikipedia
The goals of the Wikimedia foundation are much broader than just running Wikipedia. It’s a little cheesy in parts, but is still worth watching the video appeal by Jimmy Wales.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki speaking at the Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro in 1992.
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By 2020 you will be able to fit every movie ever made on your iPod.
— Rodney Brooks - The Singularity: A Period Not an Event
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We tend to overestimate technology in the short term and underestimate it in the long term.
— Arthur C. Clarke