Here is a video that shows how an Australian Australian presenter failed to amuse the Dalai Lama with a Dalai Lama joke.
The play-on-words "joke" he used is: the Dalai Lama walks into a pizza store and asks if they can make him one with everything.
The Dalai Lama's response is funnier than the joke.
He could have added: The Dalai Lama then gave the cashier $20 and asked for his change.
The cashier replied: Change comes from within.
Inspiring and Fun! Seems appropriate for the start of the Holiday Season.
Beware, these three short videos may encourage you to travel, learn something new, move your body, or create something.
3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage… all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food.
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MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.
LEARN from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.
EAT from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.
They say memory is the second thing to go; Rick Perry probably forgot the first.
This is a clip of the presidential hopeful coming up blank in a debate. Perry struggled to remember the names of three federal agencies he has promised to eliminate. Two out of three isn't bad. Oops!
Pretty funny.
While eating dinner a few nights ago, I heard a 3-year-old scream "iPad, iPad, iPad" until her parents handed one over. Was it just a child's tantrum ... or does it mark another step in our journey to the post-pc age?
To imagine the future of technology, sometimes it helps to look back. Here's a clever way to appreciate how much technology has changed the things we love to do.
And we are now moving beyond even that.
I just spent a week in Asia, and didn't bring a laptop ... relying, instead, on just an iPad and an iPhone 4S.
In 2009, Microsoft released a Productivity Future Vision. Watch how future technology will help people make better use of their time, focus their attention, and strengthen relationships while getting things done at work, home, and on the go.
They just released a updated view into their Productivity Future Vision. It is worth watching.
And here is a behind scenes look at how Microsoft Envisioning Labs conceived and made the Future Vision videos.
Amazing!
Do 1-year-olds think a magazine is a broken iPad?
My kids can't understand how I did school-work without a computer or the Internet. Their kids may not believe that people used to do their reading on paper.
Contrast your annual salary with a hedge fund legend (and someone who most probably earns a bit more than you). The interactive infographic "You vs. John Paulson" employs a wide array of comparisons, clocks, and sliders to keep you interested in
It was fun to put the numbers in context. For example, if you make $500K per year, according to the infographic, it takes Paulson less than an hour to make that. Or, put in a different way, Paulson can spend $300,000 the way I buy a cup of coffee.
NPR solicited the input of its listeners to rank the top science fiction and fantasy books of all time. Over 60,000 people voted for the top picks which were then compiled into a list by their panel of experts.
The result? A list of 100 books with a wide range of styles, little context, and not much help for you to actually choose something to read from it.
The folks at SF Signal have, once again, come to the rescue. This flowchart is designed to help you follow your tastes, provide context, and guide you to the right book for you.
Imagine being lost deep in the woods, only to hear "Hello" or "What's Happening" come at you from afar. Hikers in Australia have increasingly been surprised to find no one there. Rather than hallucination, the calls have been coming from birds.
"Some chatty pet parrots that have escaped back into the wild have taught wild parrots to talk.
The learned behaviors could be integrated into the flock through generations. 'The evolution of language could well be passed on through the generations, says Ken. "If the parents are talkers and they produce chicks, their chicks are likely to pick up some of that," he says.
This phenomenon is not unique; some lyrebirds in southern Australia still reproduce the sounds of axes and old shutter-box cameras their ancestors once learnt.'"
The story of the 100th Monkey is similar, where island monkeys learned to wash sweet potatoes and supposedly began passing on the skill.
These phenomena remind me of how human Culture becomes codified and spreads. If a wild parrot can learn to talk in the wild, imagine what humans pick up from each other.
The point: maybe it's time to notice what your organization (or team) is learning in the wild and passing-on to each other?
Companies are spending more time, money, and resources analyzing data and creating meaningful visualizations.
With so many more examples, it shouldn't come as a big surprise that there are a lot more crappy infographics on display.
Here is a chart showing the most popular infographics you can find around the web.
Of course, there is also the 'just for fun' infographic. For example, here is one showing what helicopters do in action movies.
The World Economic Collapse Explained in Less than Three Minutes
Can a funny video really explain Europe's economic woes?
It can if it asks how and why broke economies lend money to other broke economies that can't possibly pay them back?
It is an entertaining video.
This would be funnier if it wasn't so true.
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