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Inspired Holiday Gifts, Part 2

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Technology-based gifts — while always welcome — can be a bit, well, boring. Here: some indulgent and unexpected choices. For someone with a big project … and a really big desk: The 30-inch Apple Cinema Display monitor. More than 4 million pixels of gorgeous flat-screen glory. Utterly indulgent, but worth every penny. $2499 at Apple.com []

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Congratulations, Bono

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Time magazine gives the inaugural TED Prize Winner their big annual award. (Well, he has to share it with a Mr. and Mrs. Gates.) And if you missed the talk Bono gave at TED last year, there’s a transcript here, and link to Bono’s TEDTalk here. Well worth hearing.

The Proper Way To Fold A Shirt

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Those of you who are already fanatical Jill Sobule groupies have likely signed up to be a member of her Secret Society Mystery Cult (aka, Jill’s mailing list).  And if you are a Cult member then you have already seen this fantastic video of the proper way to fold a shirt (Jill learned of this []

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Visualizing global trends

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Humans have a hard time picturing certain things: long-term consequences, very large numbers, global trends … For better or worse, our brains evolved to understand the immediate, “middle-sized” world that confronts us daily. We’re grateful then, to the designers and thinkers who make abstract concepts accessible. Case in point: Gapminder, a Stockholm-based non-profit. Their extraordinary []

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The Narnia Wars

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Gazillions of words have written this past month about one of my boyhood heroes C S Lewis, in the run-up to the release of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.  (Trailer here.) Allegedly he was sexist, racist, sado-masochistic and, according to another favorite author of mine Philip Pullman, responsible for one of the most []

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Tuva or Bust

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While studying computer music in the late 1980s, one of my classmates brought a tape into CCRMA, Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Accoustics.  The tape had a snippet of music with a sound we had never heard before — a very pure flute like instrument played atop a deep and raspy drone.  []