a father uses the web to share memories with his daughter as she grows up. via YouTube – Google Chrome: Dear Sophie.
The Giving Pledge is an effort to invite the wealthiest individuals and families in America to commit to giving the majority of their wealth to philanthropy. VISIT LINK: The Giving Pledge – 40 billionaires vow to donate half their wealth (tags: charity economics design economy information inspiration money people philanthropy politics social teaching bill_gates buffet [...]
Carbon Copies, by Nadine Jarvis. 240 pencils made from the carbon of human cremains, as memory for those left behind. The most clever touch are the pencils getting sharpened back into the box causing the sharpenings to occupy the space of the used pencils. Hope it gets real sometime. VISIT LINK: Beautiful: When I die, [...]
To write this piece, we cataloged over 7,000 photographs on OkCupid.com, analyzing three primary things (Facial Attitude, Photo Context, Skin). We discovered much of the collective wisdom about profile pictures was wrong. VISIT LINK: The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures (tags: web internet funny social photo online photography culture photos image interesting media pictures [...]
Phil Borges Photography – People of Indigenous Cultures For over twenty five years Phil Borges has lived with and documented indigenous and tribal cultures around the world. Through his work, he strives to create a heightened understanding of the issues faced by people in the developing world. Through his exhibits and award-winning books, Phil attempts [...]
Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Joins Google TechCrunch has confirmed that Joshua Schachter, the founder of Delicious and a Yahoo exec until June 2008, joins a number of ex-Yahoo’ers at cross-town rival Google. In a phone call Schachter says he hasn’t been assigned to a specific project yet and declined even to state who he’s working [...]
Startup Lessons Learned Startup business experience, shared by Eric Ries co-founder of IMVU. (tags: blog business blogs tips marketing people management startup daily businessmodel lessons startups entrepreneurship revenue articles metrics start start-up …)
Bill Hicks Home Page WARNING: This website contains everything your parents hate, everything the Church preaches against, everything the Government fears. Enjoy. – Bill Hicks (tags: arts fun video art website funny film humor History humour politics media people comics activism entertainment comedy drugs archive bill billhicks comedian comedians standup truth bill-hicks …)
Totally Looks Like… Famous People Funny and Celeb Look-Alikes and Dopplegangers (tags: blog fun blogs photo cool photos culture images funny humor pictures History humour gallery people weird entertainment celebrities celebrity comedy lookalike picture face lol look-a-likes …)
too.blogspot.com While Google is a play on googol, too is a play on the much smaller number – two. It also means "in addition", as this blog reflects my life outside of work. Posted by Sergey Brin. (tags: Sergey Brin blog news blogs google people ip tech sergeybrin weekly blogging …)
World Names Profiler Search for a Surname to view its Map and Statistics. (tags: fun reference cool search world History maps research statistics technology info information map people family genealogy names surnames surname name geography …)
The girl in the window Three years ago detectives and a social worker arrived at a dilapidated house in Plant City and made a heartbreaking discovery: A tiny girl living in a dark closet. (tags: social news article toread psychology reading children people crime family parenting society abuse feral sad child …)
Geni – Genealogy – Free Family Tree Geni is a private place for your family to build your family tree, preserve your history and share your lives. (tags: History community family familytree free genealogy life map network networking people reference sns social socialnetwork socialnetworking socialsoftware software tree web2.0 …)
We Feel Fine Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in (tags: aggregator art artistic blog blogging blogs community [...]
AllLookSame China, Japan, Korea: What's the difference? Do they all look the same, or are they very distinct? Is there any truth to the stereotype, or is it ignorance? Well, find out for yourself. (tags: Game activism alllooksame asia asian china chinese fun games humor humour interesting japan japanese korea korean people psychology quiz race [...]