10 Top Must Watch Documentaries

Here are Ten Top documentaries available online


Here are Ten Top documentaries available online

Audiopad

MIT graduates James Patten and Ben Recht designed the Audiopad, an interactive tabletop system which tracks the position of objects and converts their motion into music.

Velcro ...who cant live without?

Anousheh Ansari recently went to the Space Station… she was the first female/iranian space tourist. She was also the first person to blog from space...here are some interesting bits from her her blog entry Thank God for Velcro

Here are some excerpts..

• When you open a bag of soft food like yogurt or soup, if you are not really really careful, small yogurt bubbles or soup bubbles start floating around and then you can catch them with your spoon. But if you try to catch them too fast, one bubble hits your spoon and becomes 10 smaller bubbles and now you have to catch ten of them!
• I guess the closest thing to moving in weightlessness is floating in water. But there is a major difference. In water when you move your arms and legs, you move… in here you can move your arms and legs all you want, but you are not going anywhere.
• So God invented Velcro for this very purpose… to keep things in place in weightlessness. Everything here has Velcro attached to it…even your pants have Velcro strips. I thought things could be secured if I put them in my pockets and closed the zipper. Well they are secured until you open the zipper and take one out… here comes the other small items flying out..

http://spaceblog.xprize.org/
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/our-call-from-space.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMghHs-DwvM

just 'words'..

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

Bypass Firewall via Google

Use Google Translate as a way to bypass a firewall http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.forbiddensite.com

(www.forbiddensite.com stands for the URL you need to go to…)

source: http://element14.wordpress.com/proxy-lists/

Rewind.. Christianity VS Islam {v.funny}

Someone sent this old funny clip from Daily Show.. if you've not seen it, make sure you watch the conclusion.. lol

Sprint Power Up {funny ad}

The Myth of Prodigy and Why it Matters

Here is a very interesting article on The Myth of Prodigy and Why it Matters by Malcolm Gladwell which I think gives great insight into how to raise kids..



Some of the interesting tit-bits..

• A study of 200 highly accomplished adults found that just 34 percent had been considered in any way precocious as children
• What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.
• A study comparing French-speaking Swiss children, who are taught to read early, with German-speaking Swiss children, who are taught to read later but show far fewer learning problems than their French-speaking counterparts.
• The young Mozart’s prowess can be chalked up to practice, practice, practice. Compelled to practice three hours a day from age three on, by age six the young Wolfgang had logged an astonishing 3,500 hours — “three times more than anybody else in his peer group. No wonder they thought he was a genius.” So Mozart’s famous precociousness as a musician was not innate musical ability but rather his ability to work hard, and circumstances (i.e., his father) that pushed him to do so.

Robin Williams on Letterman..

Talking about when his alcoholism became an real issue --

"..when I was violating my standards faster than I can lower them"

Gecko^

Watched Wall Street again tonight... it is such a classic and I pick up atleast a new quote each time I see it!

Here are a couple --

(Responding to Bud's question - How much is enough?)
Gekko: It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another.

Gekko: What's worth doing is worth doing for money.

Gekko: Greed captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

Lou: The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.


..and there are so many

MIT sketching {very cool}

More info here ...though, requires a tablet PC :(

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source Clay Bennett