Tag: Interesting

Eco-designs on future cities

I have long thought a “Buckminster Fullerian” way of life would come into being because it has to. And who needs the futures true answers for living than China and the overpopulated parts of the world.

While my U.S. seems to be caught in a past vision of the world as simply having everyone in the world under the biggest gun, ours, the rest of the world is moving on and ahead to a sustainable future for themselves, and it will make them the world leaders if my country refuses to wake up and take the initiative to build this first. William McDonough Partners | Huangbaiyu Cradle to Cradle Village Master Plan
is the site for the planned rural city in China

ArtistsGetBored

I couldn’t resist!

When graphic artists get bored…

Guess-the-google

I’m not usually one for games, I don’t have time for relaxation at the keyboard normally, but this site was fun for me.

You need Flash version 7 I believe to use it and it uses the Google images search feature in reverse. You look at a group of pictures and guess the term used to bring them up a Google. I find it hard but do-able.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. 🙂

[daily dose of imagery] house on peter

Like photography? I do, and there are a lot of talented folks putting some great work out here on the web to see.

This link is a blog I watch with Bloglines and he shoots in Toronto.

Doesn’t it motivate you to want to look for shots like these around you too?

The New York Times > Magazine > It’s a Flat World, After All

Something I have long felt was happening has been written up in a recent NYT Magazine article and I suggest *ALL* good Americans read it.

Bottom line, we are lazy and better get up!

Changes in the world are going on while we watch the belly buttons of our existence. We are about to be outrun not because others are just faster, but because we are sleeping.

Is this bad? Not necessarily. We are capable of creating new directions and new markets where they never existed before and I believe this means we need to create markets that need creating! Not just markets we can profit from short term, but as if God were after a market.

Are we about to be beaten and killed in this field? Maybe. And maybe that’s good. We need to leave the current field and go to the one all the world can exist in together anyway. We need to move one way or another. As leaders or as paupers, we need to move.

Google Search: weather 97477

Google Weblog reports yet another feature of Google searching it to find the weather at any zipcode. In the Google Search just type ‘weather 97477’ for Springfield Oregon weather or ‘weather new paltz, new york’ for my old home town’s current and future weather.

But wait!

There’s more!

Google News has now made its pages configurable. Google has had a great News section that points to news stories at other sites around the web. Now you can organize their page to your choices of topics and arrangement. Just visit http://news.google.com/ and click the ‘Customize this page’ link.

Can you believe it?

My parents are rolling in their graves. This is what kids today get to see on their textbooks and some suggestions of what they might add over the stickers.

Textbook disclaimer stickers

If you don’t have time for any of the above, but are not opposed to
being horrified and entertained at the same time (for free!), go get
yourself a really stiff drink and check out some of the slick web sites
where anti-evolution school board members, teachers, and fellow parents
get their strategies, lesson plans, and Darwin jokes:

Article: Pollution triggers bizarre behaviour in animals�| New Scientist

“Hyperactive fish, stupid frogs, fearless mice and seagulls that fall over. It sounds like a weird animal circus, but this is no freak show. Animals around the world are increasingly behaving in bizarre ways, and the cause is environmental pollution.”

I should list this under ‘Things we know, but are afraid to admit.’

The Void at LBStone.com

Some great videos, MP3’s and browser files of ads and plain great clips.

Try ’em!