Thomas Brodahl's Stream

Adam Lambert (via Adam Lambert: I once weighed 250 pounds -...

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:28:35 -0500

Adam Lambert (via Adam Lambert: I once weighed 250 pounds - CNN.com

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Are celebrities becoming more and more over the top clichés? As plastic and airbrushed in real-life as they are in the magazines and music videos?

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(via ) Better living through design. Great story about fixing...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:58:30 -0500

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Better living through design. Great story about fixing traffic, by acting differently than you are taught by society. Sharing that knowledge could make others implement the thinking, and we might defeat traffic-jams.

(via ) ——- Dangerous Books? Did he really say that?...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:43:34 -0500

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Dangerous Books? Did he really say that? And did Glenn Beck fucking repurpose “Common Sense”? He’s got a lot of nerve and a lack of sense.

"It is not a manual for terrorism, but it is a call to action. It is an attempt to foresee the..."

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:16:57 -0500

“It is not a manual for terrorism, but it is a call to action. It is an attempt to foresee the libidinal content of a change that has to come.”

- The Coming Insurrection | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters

"it’s the privileged feature of radical circumstances that a radical application of logic leads to..."

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:12:30 -0500

““it’s the privileged feature of radical circumstances that a radical application of logic leads to revolution. It’s enough to say just what is before our eyes and not shrink from the conclusions.””

- The Coming Insurrection | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters

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I see it.

"in a world that is really upside down, the true is a moment of the false,"

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:11:37 -0500

““in a world that is really upside down, the true is a moment of the false,””

- The Coming Insurrection | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters

"They are turning my son into a scapegoat for a generation who have started to think for themselves..."

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:02:26 -0500

““They are turning my son into a scapegoat for a generation who have started to think for themselves about capitalism and its wrongs.””

- The Coming Insurrection | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters

"So sad, nothing else to say. Can’t the human race just get it together and stop this kind of..."

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:58:57 -0500

“So sad, nothing else to say. Can’t the human race just get it together and stop this kind of tragedy? I know it sounds utopian but we are capable of it, look at what we are able to do. Why don’t we? I don’t understand.”

- Kazakhstan’s radioactive legacy - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Another comment that seemed to capture my zeitgeist.

"Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida provides an example of the results of using Novanet..."

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:22:26 -0500

“Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida provides an example of the results of using Novanet software. In this program there were 123 students, all of whom were below the twentieth percentile on state standards. After three months of using the program, all pupils had made gains. Moreover, half of the students had advanced at least one full grade, and 27 of those pupils had improved by either two or three grade levels.”

- The Future of Computer Technology in K-12 Education

Computer driven education.

(via ) Never saw anything this revealing or enlightening from...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:45:21 -0500

(via ) Never saw anything this revealing or enlightening from the main-stream media on any of the candidates.

Candid and genuine, it gives you a great insight into who this person is. Great example of how to get authenticity.

Giant iceberg spotted off Australia - Telegraph

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:15:48 -0500

Giant iceberg spotted off Australia - Telegraph:

FUBAR

"Precious” is a film that makes you think, “There but for the grace of God go I.”..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:12:58 -0500

““Precious” is a film that makes you think, “There but for the grace of God go I.” It’s a potent and moving experience, because by the end you feel you’ve witnessed nothing less than the birth of a soul.”

- Review: ‘Precious’ displays power of film - CNN.com

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Thats what you need to accomplish in order to bring a person truly into another person’s world and problems. To create true empathy.

"Part of the great power of movies is that they can take us perilously close to the life of someone..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:01:27 -0500

“Part of the great power of movies is that they can take us perilously close to the life of someone we might otherwise feel perilously far from.”

- Review: ‘Precious’ displays power of film - CNN.com

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Mirror effect. Empathy. Global consciousness.

"Opponents of President Obama’s approach to health care reform have outspent supporters by more than..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:15:49 -0500

“Opponents of President Obama’s approach to health care reform have outspent supporters by more than $7 million in the past 30 days in what has become the most expensive one year, single issue advocacy campaign on television in the nation’s history.”

- CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - First on the Ticker: Health reform critics saturate TV airwaves « - Blogs from CNN.com

"Apple in my entire time never tested a thing in print or on TV,” Segall says. “Everybody else tests..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:46:24 -0500

““Apple in my entire time never tested a thing in print or on TV,” Segall says. “Everybody else tests everything.””

- Interview: The Man Who Named the iMac and Wrote Think Different | Cult of Mac

"Travel is a spiritual affair that delights the senses, nourishes the intellect, and opens the heart"

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:38:01 -0500

“Travel is a spiritual affair that delights the senses, nourishes the intellect, and opens the heart”

- Hole In The Donut Travels

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Indeed.

Glaciers disappearing from Kilimanjaro -...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:09:34 -0500

Glaciers disappearing from Kilimanjaro - CNN.com

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We need to go before they’re gonne so that we can tell the kids what we let disappear.

“We all know that war is stupid…” (via...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:00:21 -0500

“We all know that war is stupid…” (via Kittykatzen)

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Indeed.

"Somewhere, in a sparsely populated galaxy, there is a planet like any other. The creatures of this..."

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:41:15 -0400

“Somewhere, in a sparsely populated galaxy, there is a planet like any other. The creatures of this world have four limbs. The two lower limbs enable them to move forward and backward, and the two upper limbs enable them to kill”

- Somewhere, in a sparsely populated galaxy, there is a planet like any… - but does it float

"Scientific studies over the last decade have shown that adolescent brain development occurs into the..."

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:35:33 -0400

“Scientific studies over the last decade have shown that adolescent brain development occurs into the 20s, which makes it hard for teens to make decisions, criminologists say. In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court took this research into consideration when it ruled that children could not be given the death penalty.”

- Alleged rape raises questions about bystanders - CNN.com