Displace Me: Leave Your Home to Send a Message

Posted on April 11, 2007 Under Life

Last year I wrote about the Invisible Children in war torn Uganda. Josh was moved and immediately pledged his support. On April 28th, in 15 cities across the U.S., thousands of people are leaving their homes for camps in a…

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TED Prize Talks

Posted on April 6, 2007 Under Life

At long last the talks of TED Prize Winners, President Bill Clinton, EO Wilson and James Nachtwey are available online for your viewing pleasure. I've embedded James Nachtwey's talk here about his decades as a photo journalist-- my favorite of…

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Fresh Designer / Fresh China

Posted on April 5, 2007 Under Life

Gary Birks, a twenty-something designer still working on his MA in Ceramic Design at Staffordshire University, is the brain behind these pretty pieces of bone china, and I have to send a solid high five his way for getting me…

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Whisky Militia

Posted on April 4, 2007 Under Life

We're all familiar with sites that buy up products in mass quantities and then dump them us for drastically discounted prices-- some examples that I like: Steep And Cheap (for skiing) and Woot (for techie stuff I'll never buy). Whisky…

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Find Internet TV

Posted on April 3, 2007 Under Life

On the heals of David's helpful and exciting post about Joost this morning, I thought you may also want to know where to find TV programming online. Find Internet TV is a good place to start. This site provides both…

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Nail House Gets Hammered

Posted on April 3, 2007 Under Life

Because we received so much feedback from the original post, I felt compelled to inform you all that Yang Wu and Wu Ping have succumb to the Chinese Government and the real estate developer that will build a shopping mall…

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Trust Us: We'll Never Use PayPerPost

Posted on April 3, 2007 Under Life

There's something about this Jason Calcanis interview of Ted Murphy (founder of PayPerPost) that makes us cringe. The very idea of masking paid product placements as genuine blog posts flies squarely in the face of what we as writers and…

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Joost Internet TV

Posted on April 3, 2007 Under Life

Just like your wheat grass this morning, this is juiced (well, Joost really, but pronounced "juiced"). It's coming to us from Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Zennstrom and his Danish partner Janus Friis, the guys behind Kazaa and Skype-- which as many…

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Nokia N95: Great Pockets Campaign

Posted on April 2, 2007 Under Life

Even though the N95 is already amply hyped across Europe, I have to direct our mostly unexposed U.S. readers to the Great Pockets site, an incredibly well done viral campaign for the Nokia's newest "multimedia computer" by the Swedish agency…

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41 Pounds: No More Junk Mail!

Posted on March 31, 2007 Under Life

I followed a reader tip to 41pounds.org, and was delighted to read about this junk mail battling organization. I hate junk mail more than anything-- every time I open my mailbox and it's overflowing with crap, I can't help but…

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