Archive for the 'Inspiration' Category

Bruce Sterling at Webstock 09

Those Kiwi’s really have it together. How do I love this talk? Let me count the ways.
But you know, I’m not scared by any of this. I regret the suffering, I know it’s big trouble — but it promises massive change and a massive change was inevitable. The way we ran the [...]

Mikey Sklar on Discovery Channel

Via the Makezine:Blog, here’s a short video feature on Mikey Sklar and his inventions:

I really admire what Mikey and Wendy are doing at Green Acres.

Natalie Goldberg at Copperfields

I went to hear Natalie Goldberg speak at our local bookstore today. A few weeks ago I “discovered” her classic book on writing, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within and have been reading it. I was surprised when my friend TJ told me she was going to be in town promoting [...]

David Lynch, Pundit

Both of these fit my mood today. Thanks, Jay!
On product placments:

On watching movies on your phone:

Young Engineers

This is getting passed around the MAKE offices. I love it!

Ultra Man

Dale sent this around at work: a great video bit from the Santa Rosa Press Democrat about Bill Bradley, a local man who’s training for a 100-mile foot race along the Iditarod course in the middle of winter.

The accompanying article, Beyond the Limit, has more choice bits.
When told Bradley planned to train inside a meat [...]

It’s a JC Penney Ad. Seriously.

I’m speechless. via O’Reilly Radar.

Thunder Mountain Monument

I’m almost done getting all of my vacation photos organized, but here’s an interesting subset of them, from our stop at Thunder Mountain Monument. Here’s a random selection from the set…more details about the monument and photos from our visit are on the Flickr set page

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