Rob Fulghum brings it to attention:
And there’s a much smaller-but-visible wave that strikes me sometimes. I don’t have a name for it. But you will recognize it if I tell you about it.
Sicksad was sick of the UK govt’s porn filter, so he built one himself! [Article]
So i hear the UK government wants to make a porn filter. About bloody time i reckon. I’m fed up of happily browsing the Internet for boobs, only to have non-porn related subject matter thrust down my face hole.
So taking inspiration from other great Internet filtering nations such as North Korea, China, Syria, Iran, Cuba, Bahrain, Belarus, Burma, Uzbekistan, Saudia Arabia and Vietnam I decided to help out the UK government and build an Internet filter that only allows pornographic material through.
Birth to death – as told by the movies [Video]
To kick off the weekend, Birth to death, as told by movies.
Food for thought: Do you need an expensive college degree to earn a big income? [Article]
Not really, reckons Mr. Money Moustache, starting to put together a list of 50 jobs that pay over $50k a year, and which don’t really need a degree (sure, it takes some work). Scoffing at manual labour? Think producing content on YouTube is a joke?
How to avoid death (or at least try!) [Article]
James Altucher draws the similarities between himself & his father over the course of their individual lives:
Spending time with people you love and who inspire you is not about making money or having fun. It’s a matter of life and death.
Can anyone learn to be a master memorizer? [Video]
In his TED talk on memory, Joshua Foer takes the audience through an evocative image that he paints, & then shares his transformation from a science writer covering the US memory championships to becoming a contestant. Training, he reckons, can make anyone into a master memorizer. He shares a few ideas with the audience too.
The answers to my problems were always simpler than I wanted them to be. [Article]
David of Raptitude discovers a profound truth to a vexing but common problem that I can certainly relate to:
it’s almost always obvious what others should do, and less obvious what we should do ourselves. I’ve become increasingly aware of this phenomenon, both on the giving end and receiving end of advice.
A simple act of kindness saved lives [Article]
From the history books, this is one of those stories that rarely reach the world through newspapers. This is a story of two families from during WWII, a small act of kindness that started life-changing events that rippled through generations.
In 1941, a poor Polish farmwoman travelled from the countryside to Israel Rubinek’s village store, but found she didn’t have enough money to pay for the things she needed.
More than an apple a day [Article, Video]
Leo Babauta gave up meat to become a vegan. But as he explains, eating a vegan diet doesn’t necessarily equate to a healthy diet, despite what many believe.
If you care about your health, (and less about pharma companies profits), please take the time to watch this video (which runs for an hour) by Dr. Greger called More than an apple a day: Preventing our most common diseases.
edX’s Anant Agarwal explaining MOOC’s on the Colbert Report [Video]
“I don’t understand. You’re in the knowledge business in a university. Let’s say I had a shoe store, ok, and then I hired you to work at my shoe store. And you said, ‘Hey, I’ve got a great idea! Let’s give the shoes away for free.’ I would fire you and then probably throw shoes at your head.” In other words, why would universities disrupt themselves and give education away at no cost? Watch Anant Agarwal explains to Colbert