http://www.ryskamp.org/psst/ The little reminders I leave for myself en-us bob@ryskamp.org Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:03:57 -0800 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Highlights from Andy Kaufman's wrestling career - a truly epic stunt.

]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:03:57 -0800 YouTube - Amazing Indoor Skydiving - I tried this once...wasn't quite this good.

]]> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:27:49 -0800 Calligraphy in light - beautiful.

]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:25:35 -0800 The history of the Earth in 60 seconds - to scale, natch!

]]> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:32:16 -0800 The Homer Simpson metric: "Homer is not going to use his body for anything. That’s the American value system in a nutshell. And that’s what we who are trying to design alternative transportation are fighting against. We've got to make something that's clean, cheap and mechanically efficient without the individual feeling the physical consequences. That’s tough."

]]> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:11:34 -0800 I'm late to view the Siftables demo, but it really is inspiring.

]]> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:15:52 -0800 First-person video of a bike race finish - can't believe I never thought to do this (the filming, not the near-crash).

]]> Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:55:29 -0800 Flow chart of where our emissions are really coming from - interesting that land use change (deforestation, etc) is as significant as transportation.

]]> Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:41:07 -0800 The Long Now Foundation - Store - Books - great book recommendations from the Long Now Foundation. Love the <10-word reviews; I should try that.

]]> Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:48:54 -0800 "The gospel is not primarily a set of facts but a way of seeing and a way of being in the world because of God." - Richard Rohr

]]> Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:32:37 -0800 YouTube - Are Violent Video Games Preparing Kids For The Apocalypse? - I'm pretty sure this was what Kenneth Boulding was talking about.

]]> Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:51:03 -0800 "The future will always surprise us, but we must not let it dumbfound us." - Kenneth Boulding

]]> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:20:17 -0800 "The vice president began to tremble with rage. He shouted, 'The telephone system was destroyed last night and you had better believe it. If you don't by noon, you'll be fired.'" - Idealized Design: How Bell Labs Imagined -- and Created -- the Telephone System of the Future. Great example of prototyping future experiences to inspire innovation.

]]> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:41:32 -0800 Google finally solves the age-old question of the ideal crank length: 87 minutes

]]> Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:09:35 -0800 "In his first week in office, President Obama requested that he see 10 letters a day 'representative of people's concerns, from people writing into the president,' recalls Gibbs, 'to help get him outside of the bubble, to get more than just the information you get as an elected official." - ABC News. Very cool way of tapping into real people's needs.

]]> Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:16:25 -0800 Coolest commute ever - kids in Colombia riding a zip line over a 1200-foot valley to get to school.

]]> Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:24:32 -0800 "If called, I will certainly serve," he said. "But if not called, I will probably serve anyway." - Carl Malamud, who works to make government documents easily available. Love the attitude.

]]> Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:41:29 -0800 For all those times you've said "I wish I could invest in that person": Swayam: Education Funding, people investing in people - "We offer ordinary people the opportunity to become angel investors in the education of talented students, in exchange for a share of their future income."

]]> Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:49:50 -0800 Informing Ourselves To Death - a good counterpoint to the "inforevolution": "I believe you will have to concede that what ails us, what causes us the most misery and pain -- at both cultural and personal levels -- has nothing to do with the sort of information made accessible by computers. The computer and its information cannot answer any of the fundamental questions we need to address to make our lives more meaningful and humane."

]]> Tue, 17 Feb 2009 9:34:09 -0800 Christopher Columbus @ All About Explorers - Librarians sabotage the internet to teach kids that you can't trust online information. Great.

]]> Mon, 16 Feb 2009 9:32:55 -0800 Kevin Kelly reports on Amish technology adoption - "One Amish-man told me that the problem with phones, pagers, and PDAs (yes he knew about them) was that 'you got messages rather than conversations.'"

]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:47:16 -0800 Imagining the Internet - good list of books and resources for forecasting and concept design

]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:46:20 -0800 Saul Griffith expands on his previous analysis of the energy we need and use as a planet. Really compelling stuff; who wants to start an energy company?

]]> Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:40:31 -0800 "It's not bad to own fine things that you like. What you need are things that you GENUINELY like. Things that you cherish, that enhance your existence in the world. The rest is dross." - Bruce Sterling

]]> Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:44:06 -0800 Flexitarianism - describes my diet pretty well. Here's another good article.

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