https://www.opendesk.cc/

Playgrounds Fest 2012 Main Titles from Playgrounds Digital Arts Fest on Vimeo.

Vintage Industrial 

http://www.abookapart.com/products/design-is-a-job

 by Mike Monteiro

http://www.archdaily.com/221650/pavilion-emtech-aa-eth/

Out of a collaboration between the Emergent Technologies and Design program (EmTech) of the Architectural Association (AA), London, and the Chair of Structural Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, a temporary light timber construction has been designed that functions as sun shading for parts of the grand stairs in front of the architecture department of the ETH.

THE BONEYARD PROJECT: RETURN FLIGHT from Jason Wawro on Vimeo.

David Attenbororough BBC

http://www.marcandangel.com/2011/08/30/12-things-happy-people-do-differently/

Sonja Lyubomirsky points to 12 things happy people do differently to increase their levels of happiness in her book   The How of Happiness

1.    Express gratitude.
2.    Cultivate optimism.
3.    Avoid over-thinking and social comparison.
4.    Practice acts of kindness.
5.    Nurture social relationships.
6.    Develop strategies for coping.
7.    Learn to forgive.
8.    Increase flow experiences.
9.    Savor life’s joys.
10.    Commit to your goals.
11.    Practice spirituality.
12.    Take care of your body.

got to be careful when combating ninjas.

I like these RSA animate videos. Illustrating a lecture, now there’s an idea!

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and Richard Wolff’s Capitalism Hits the Fan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZU3wfjtIJY

Corning put some serious time and money to create this promotional video. Interesting UX going on too.

A great idea for education that seems to work.

 http://www.khanacademy.org/
“With a library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 125 practice exercises, we’re on a mission to help you learn whatever you want, whenever you want, at your own pace. ”

I’m recommending the statistics course for John at SFSU.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/travel/21nepal.html?src=me&ref=homepage

It is a shame, then, that by 2012 a road will have been built on this path, destroying this experience and, according to many, placing the last nail in the coffin of what was once the greatest trek on earth.

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