Archive for 2010
2 Monks and the river
Once upon a time a big monk and a little monk were traveling together. They came to the bank of a river and found the bridge was damaged. They had to wade across the river. There was a pretty lady who was stuck at the damaged bridge and couldn’t cross the river. The big monk [...]
A Real Hero: Narayanan Krishnan
CNN has a great series called Heroes, not sure if it is web only as I don’t have a TV but this guy was on Wimp.com today and was definitely someone that we should all take a bit from. If he’s doing this in India, god what can we do in our plush comfortable countries? [...]
Uncovering happiness
All of the situations of misery and unhappiness in your life, have one thing in common. Do you know what that is? It’s you! That fact of the matter is that we are responsible for everything that happens in our lives and for every emotion that goes through our bodies. They say that circumstances [...]
US Gov’t reeling from Wikileaks – THIS IS HUGE
WikiLeaks.org (Donate here) Part 1: Iraq (Download all leaked docs here – CSV or SQL) Well the cat has never been let out of the bag like this before as today Wikileaks.org made history by leaking the largest amount of classified government documents in human history on their website as well as to specific [...]
3 SlideShare Presentations to make you go Hmmmm
Some great numbers to open your eyes to the self-inflicted human genocide that is taking place today. SMOKE – The Convenient Truth View more presentations from Empowered Presentations, Honolulu, HI. A different sort of genocide of one of the worlds most majestic creatures A Tiger’s Appeal View more presentations from Avalok . Not quite as [...]
3 Futureshorts for you today
For all of you who were like me a few weeks ago and hadn’t heard about Future shorts then here’s a little rundown. If you want more info just head over to www.futureshorts.com Future Shorts is one of the leading and most innovative short film labels. Since 2003, Future Shorts has created a rapidly expanding [...]
BOTB Series: The Best Open Source Native Linux Games
Being a game designer AND a semi-die-hard linux user my choice of games can differ slightly from the general public. As I spend most of my time working in linux I also have a tenancy to game a fair bit in linux. So over the course of the past couple of years I have gone [...]
BOTB Series: Music in Video Game Trailers
There have been rare instances where music is used so beautifully and so brilliantly in the most unlikely places that you have to stop and pay respect. Video Game trailers are definitely one of those places, although I’d say movie trailers would be another. This isn’t to say that there isn’t some powerful music used [...]
Science Fiction as a tool for human survival
“Sleep Dealer is remarkably topical for a film set in the future (albeit one described by Rivera as taking place “five minutes from now”). Central themes include outsourcing, corporate ownership of water, remote warfare, confessional internet diaries and military contractors who are accountable to no one. It’s the rare political film without any reference to [...]
RadioLab: It will broaden your mind and open your heart
Well it’s no secret that I’ve fallen in love recently as I’ve been telling everyone who will listen. Not with a member of the fairer sex however but with a Radioshow / Podcast out of New York called Radiolab. In fact I’m so blown away with this show I just spent the better part of [...]
