Imagining the 10th Dimension
From Rob Bryanton at tenthdimension.com: For the benefit of all beings in the ten directions and the three times.
Everything is amazing right now, and nobody is happy…
Comedian Louis C.K. on Conan O’Brien
Secrets of the Deep
From Richard Pyle at TED2004: In this illuminating talk, Richard Pyle shows us thriving life on the cliffs of coral reefs and groundbreaking diving technologies he has pioneered to explore it. He and his team risk everything to reveal the secrets of undiscovered species. 16min 48sec
The Future
Original Source Unknown via @Veronica on Twitter: Breakfast on the Internet: it’s the future! http://bit.ly/14k5xj (via @danstapleton via @digg)
The great Gmail outage of Feb 2009
It seems Google’s Gmail service has been offline, slow and/or reporting 502 errors for several hours in many different countries around the world. There has been a veritable torrent of people talking about it on Twitter. The BBC has already picked up the story and the Gmail support page is…
Blind Faith in Science
From Mystifying science and scientific mysticism on Indranet: “Edgar Cayce used to say that it is possible to connect with any source of knowledge when our consciousness is expanded to the extent that it can render the Akashic records transparent. In the Eastern mystic tradition as well the access to…
Court ordered Google to censor search results
In December 2008 a US court ordered Google to remove a long list of sites selling term papers from its search listings. Although this may seem like a good thing on the surface, lots of universities use Google to check submitted papers for plagiarism. If the sites have been removed…
TED2009: The Blue Heart of the Planet
From Sylvia Earle at TED2009: Sylvia Earle: Here’s how to protect the blue heart of the planet (TED Prize winner!) Legendary ocean researcher Sylvia Earle shares astonishing images of the ocean — and shocking stats about its rapid decline — as she makes her TED Prize wish: that we will…
TED2009: Homo evolutis – the ultimate reboot
From Jaun Enriquez at TED2009: Beyond the crisis, mindboggling science and the arrival of Homo evolutis Even as mega-banks topple, Juan Enriquez says the big reboot is yet to come. But don’t look for it on your ballot — or in the stock exchange. It’ll come from science labs, and…