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My 37 Day Life Experiment: 10% Devotion
de·vo·tion /dɪˈvoʊʃən/ [dih-voh-shuhn] –noun 1. profound dedication; consecration. The idea for this experiment came out of a number of things, one of them being an article I am currently writing on Balance. Something which we all apparently need in abundance and yet ironically something which the greatest and most successful people on this planet have [...]
And the ‘Oldspice Maneuver’ is created, blows the doors off of advertising
So today, or yesterday depending on where you are from, we witness a huge huge first in viral advertising / marketing strategies and it paid off BIG, like Nintendo Wii Big! For the first time, at least that I know of, a company decided to talk to their customers, as in literally take questions(albeit silly [...]
Lhasa Explaining Life & ‘Soon this space will be too Small’
I was sitting in Vancouver with a very special person when this audio clip came on the CBC’s Radio show ‘Aprapo’ and we just had to stop everything we were doing and give this hauntingly beautiful voice of the late Lhasa our full attention. I have not heard such a wonderful metaphor for life in [...]
Truthdig.com brings Chris Hedges and Sam Harris together – Incredible debate
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20070617_religion_politics_and_the_end_of_the_world/ An Incredible debate between two very well respected and well spoken men Religion, Politics and the End of the World Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont) is an American journalist, author, and war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies.[1] His most recent book, which he [...]
Closer to Truth – Something we all must watch
http://www.closertotruth.com/episodes I stumbled across this absolute diamond today and my jaw figuratively dropped when I realized what it was that I had found. This might just be one of the most profound video programs I have seen. The panels that have been assembled to ask the questions that are being asked is mind bloggling. You [...]
Ulysses by Lord Alfred Tennyson
I was watching an episode of Babylon 5 last night and these was an except from a Tennyson poem read that tugged at me in just the right way. So I had to go out and track it down to see if the rest of it was as captivating, ‘lo and behold it was! Ulysses [...]
The Situation in Haiti – What can you do to help?
According to recent stories we may be seeing up to 200,000+ people dead in Haiti and over 1/3 of their capital city needing to be rebuilt, which ranks it in as one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history and in the top 10 deadliest earthquakes ever recorded. With the advent of microbloggin and [...]
Kintar – Welcome Lebanon leads me to Ashes & Snow
My favorite DJ in the world right now – Dj Kenneth Thomas – mixed in a song called ‘Welcome Lebanon‘ by Kintar at the 55 minute mark of Obsessions 228 and this track impacted me so much that it’s led me down this rabit hole of discovery. Kintar did a good enough job with the [...]
The humanist presents: 9 Lesson Shows and Carols for Godless People
Stumbled upon this article over at NewScientist that peaked my interest and led me to look more into This show put on by the Rationalist Association in the UK. To quote a little bit from the New Scientist article: Welcome to Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People, a variety show featuring a stellar cast [...]
Great Documentary: Carts of Darkness
I found this by complete fluke this morning.. I was on some site, probably looking at the Black Mesa trailer when i saw this advert on the side of the screen that really made me scratch my head because it wasn’t about anything at all. The entire advertisement was simply a video of a dude [...]
