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verbatim flash challenge.
quite addictive flash game.
every time you make a powerpoint.
edward tufte kills a puppy
michael musto rides to work.
riding to work is good for you.
Cambridge Ideas: how many lightbulbs.
How many lightbulbs do you use in a day?
bill gates likes manitoba professor.
bill gates likes manitoba professor - Vaclav Smil
new XO laptop.
one laptop per child - laptop starts to look a lot better...
enjoying the blippy 404 page
make sure you click the unicorn*.

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interesting 404 error page for the banff lake louise website…

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i like the idea, i like the writing style and i admire the content. you should check it out i was quite interested to see the video on three generations go to antarctica but the video player is horrid on a mac with safari. i must be missing something, but it’s not worth booting up a VM.
UPDATE: i visited the site a second time and refreshed my browser a few times and the video played smoothly. the first go round it was full of sound gaps and video artifacts.

i’m impressed that someone who has made a significant impact on the world is continuing to make efforts to make the world better. or at least to continue learning about this place we all live.

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Cambridge University physicist David Mackay, in a passionate, personal analysis of the energy crisis in the UK. He debunks some myths about energy saving and goes on to show what will make a difference at home. But, his big point is that this will not be enough – individual efforts are not enough. Instead we need to make sweeping national changes to our energy production.
How Many Light Bulbs? - From Cambridge Ideas from Cambridge University on Vimeo.
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this looks pretty interesting:
interesting conceptual / research idea, but i doubt if it could be this elegant in practice.
makes me realize how different MS and apple are. apple brings videos like this forward when they have a product to sell, but MS brings videos like this forward whenever they come up with a cool idea. the trick is to bring cool ideas to market – and the sooner the public learns of an idea – the sooner feature creep starts.
if MS can produce one of these without throwing the HI out with excessive features – i’m in.
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