“Make a n**%a wanna invest in PBS”
>Nas’ new video about Fox News (Sly Fox). I don’t think I would have ever heard the above line, but it is there, and other good ones too.
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Ira Glass on practice, failure and storytelling
>I think this is a great little piece on storytelling, the value of failure, and how to get good at something. I am going to find some excuse to make my students watch it.
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Interesting takes on Bill Gates, on the occasion of his retirement
>Anil Dash says that by combining Microsoft with the gates Foundation, what he has essentially done is impose a 100 dollar per white collar worker "cure AIDS tax" or "stop malaria tax" on every corporation in the developed world. Interesting reading… http://www.dashes.com/anil/2008/06/bill-gates-and-the-greatest-tech-hack-ever.html And I enjoyed reading a rant of an email that Bill himself sent…
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Bush impersonator reads kids letters
>Pretty funny concept
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Manage your email
>Here are some links for managing email (both those you have and those you send) For those of you who sometimes have problems managing email, it can seem like you spend more time doing less work. Below are a number of resources for various aspects of managing email, from getting your own inbox under control,…
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National Archives video online
>Google video is putting video from the National Archives online for all to use. Pretty cool idea, except it is a little buggy right now. WWII newsreels, NASA films, and films from the departmet of the Interior are up for the first round. http://video.google.com/nara.html from lifehacker
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Harry Frankfurt “On Bullshit”
>Video interview from Harry Frankfurt – author of “On Bullshit”This interview is two tweed jacket academic talking heads, sitting in front of stacks of books, talking about bullshit.Both hilarious and insightful.http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/video/frankfurt/
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Manage your email
>Some tips on how to manage your behemoth of an inboxhttp://www.43folders.com/2006/02/06/email-ninja/
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Free online stock photos for presentations
>Tired of clip art? Google Images not giving you what you want?Try this link for a list of places that provide free imageshttp://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2006/01/where_can_you_f.html from lifehacker
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Fun with Photoshop
>The website fark.com has a photoshop contest every now and then. Some of them are great.I like this one : Here is the link for all of them:
