This nicely put together YouTube video by Michael Wesch.

Thanks Greg!

Two interesting videos. Two different messages.

“Cynthia Vanderlip, manager of the State of Hawaii’s Kure Atoll Wildlife Sanctuary, cut open the dead body of a fledgling Laysan albatross (nicknamed “Shed Bird”) to find more than half a pound of plastic in its stomach.”

This is the bits of shit we throw away without a second thought!

This one image sums it all up, without ambiguity, and without unnecessary “designer” fuss.

Read A …

I just realised what the fundamental problem with renewable energy is: it is free and there is a limitless supply of it.

Our current economic model is based on profits from scarcity. If no one can make (big) renewable bucks from renewable energy, no business-as-usual will take it seriously. And if no business will take it seriously, it is unlikely governments will take it seriously.

Oh dear…

I suppose if you …

Another thought from The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff (ISBN 0-416-19526-1):

“[Although] we live in what is commonly described as a Materialistic Society … ours is in reality an Abstract Value society – one in which things are not appreciated for what they are so much as for what they represent.”

So why is Abstract Value so attractive? I reckon it is because Abstract …

Read Meow Mix Academy Puts New Yorkers in Touch With Their Feline Side.

What was your honest uncensored reaction to it?

What a brilliant marketing campaign!
Ho hum, so what?!
The world is soooo f*cked.

I picked c.

This just seem so … wrong. I do have a cat I love – but this just smacked of spoilt, rich, bored, neotenised brats with nothing better to do than just pointlessly consume …

Dr. W. Edwards Deming, the originator of TQM (Total Quality Management), put forth 14 points of organisation behaviour change towards better performance.

Stilgherrian’s post on being real on the web brought to mind Deming’s eighth point: Drive out fear.

Point 8: Fear is a barrier to improvement so drive out fear by encouraging effective two-way communication and other mechanisms that will enable everybody to be …

A very funny and pointedly thought-provoking post by Dave on the ethics around the Bratz dolls for young girls.

The comments are definitely worth a read.

When I first encountered these dolls a few years ago I was quite disturbed by them. Now I am hardly a prude by a long shot (just ask my friends!), but these dolls do seem to …

The recent terrorist attacks in the UK made me think of my post on principles vs rules.

The individuals in each terrorist cell are driven by clear principles. They act on these principles the best way they know how, using whatever method or approach that works. Often these are ways most likely to succeed in the local environment because of their local knowledge, and their high adaptability unconstrained …

So what’s your excuse?!

“We thought we were very different from other animals including our primate relatives, but this is not the case. At least some altruism may have been present in the common ancestor to humans and chimpanzees.” Felix Warneken, from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Read the full article on ITWire.