This video was awesome!!!
The comic is here http://xkcd.com/442/
rePost::Noynoy and Great Expectations | Filipino Voices
The challenges facing the Philippines are many, with solutions conflicting. This necessitates a lot of sacrifice from all sectors of society. This is Noynoy’s second weakness, his lack of great oratorical gifts. His first being his unproven mettle for leadership. I pray he finds his voice because if if he doesn’t her lineage may not be enough to counter the power of GMA2 or the one who must not be named. If people do not understand why they are sacrificing, sacrifice becomes a bitter medicine, hard to swallow. If we cannot embolden people, help them find the courage to stare down corruption, report the erring officials, being vigilant against opportunist in and outside the administration, Noy may win the election but lose the war.
Please anyone but GMA2.
He answered, as with his previous answers, in that circuitous manner. The core message is lost in the minor crests and dips. His words traveled from his lips to my ears and my brain discerned that his answer, in brief, was that he could not miss the opportunity to create change. I sat back, unmoved. I did not get the answer I wanted. I was no closer to getting a better sense of his motivations for running as I had before sharing breathing space with the good senator.
But what did I expect? Noynoy does not have the gravitas of men and women who command loyalty by simply being. He has not the charm of his father nor a revolution brewing in his favor as his mother. All he has are his shoulders frail. Here is a man who had indeed chosen to pick up the biggest rock in sight and to willingly strike it on his head. And he does it not for naked quest for power. Megalomania is to Noynoy as sweet is to brick. These properties do not compute.
These days, his noticeably thinner body seems to bow under the weight of his assumed burden, this man who has had no great aspirations to power, this man who has had no messianic pretensions. In running for the highest office in the land at a time of great crisis, perhaps Noynoy only wishes to honor the memory of his mother and father, and in doing so resurrect in all of us what was was great and proud in the Filipino.
via Noynoy and Great Expectations | Filipino Voices.
rePost::Pakistani ambassador rejected because his name is NSFW in Arabic | FP Passport
funny!
Pakistani ambassador rejected because his name is NSFW in Arabic
Posted By David Kenner Wednesday, February 3, 2010 – 4:48 PM Share
Despite having served for years as a distinguished Pakistani diplomat, Akbar Zeb reportedly cannot receive accreditation as Pakistan's ambassador to Saudi Arabia. The reason, apparently, has nothing to do with his credentials, and everything to do with his name — which, in Arabic, translates to “biggest dick”:
In Saudi Arabia, size does count.
A high level Pakistani diplomat has been rejected as Ambassador of Saudi Arabia because his name, Akbar Zib, equates to “Biggest Dick” in Arabic. Saudi officials, apparently overwhelmed by the idea of the name, put their foot down and gave the idea of his being posted there, the kibosh.
via Pakistani ambassador rejected because his name is NSFW in Arabic | FP Passport.
Elink Video:: Megan Fox's Motorola Super Bowl Ad
Damn.
Elink Video:: Google's Superbowl Ad :Parisian Love
I was so amused by this, which tells more about me than about the commercial so watch for yourself!
Maybe a presidentiable could copy this. I’m hoping for Dick Gordon because they could have secondary results that could be very funny!!! Dick best presidentiable name ever!!!!!
Elink Video:: Oprah Letterman Leno Superbowl Ad!!!!
Quote::The Happiness Project: Seth Godin: "You Can Become the Indispensable Linchpin."
Read the whole interview at the linked site!!
Gretchen:If you had to sum up in one sentence what you want a reader to understand from reading Linchpin, what would it be?
The world wants you to be a faceless, replaceable cog in the vast machinery of production–but if you choose, and you work at it, you can become the sort of person we really need, an indispensable linchpin, a person who matters. The marketplace needs and embraces artists, creatives, initiators, challengers and movers. You have that skill, the challenge is unearthing it.
via The Happiness Project: Seth Godin: “You Can Become the Indispensable Linchpin.”.
Advice::The Happiness Project: Seth Godin: "You Can Become the Indispensable Linchpin."
We really need to disabuse ourselves with the destructive notion that we just aren’t born creative. As Sir Ken Robinson likes to say “We grow out of creativity”. We fail often and go through stuff we don’t want to feel again, this makes us fear failure and when you are too afraid how our you going to be creative when in a lot of ways creativity is about being brave about something. I think a good rule of thumb for this is that if you are not afraid on failing about something then you are not trying hard enough. It’s cliche but we have to push the boundaries with everything we do. So Be Brave.
Gretchen: You write about the importance of thinking creatively. Do you have any habits or exercises that you follow to try to boost your creativity or to give yourself the breathing room need to think big?
Seth: There are two secrets to creativity:
1. Understand that there's no gene for it. No cultural or family history required. Creativity isn't a gift from above, it's something that everyone is capable of.
2. The only thing that prevents your creativity from showing up is fear. Fear of being laughed at, fear of being wrong, fear of seeming uninformed. So many creative exercises and habits revolve around overcoming that fear.
For me, the single best thing you can do to become more creative is to be wrong more often. Creative people are wrong all the time (look at Apple's long string of failures). The goal is to create a safe place to be wrong, a way to be wrong without destroying yourself. [Along these lines, I remind myself to Enjoy the fun of failure.] The more wrong I am, the more often, the better I seem to get at being creative.
There are very few chances a day to be really creative, even for someone who is creative for a living, the way I am. So I seek these moments out, I treasure them and I try to be intentional. “Here's something I've waited for a day or a week for… a chance to say or do something that might change the status quo, that might improve a system… I wonder how I can mess it up?”
via The Happiness Project: Seth Godin: “You Can Become the Indispensable Linchpin.”.
rePost::The Safety Net – Living on Nothing but Food Stamps – Series – NYTimes.com
With how much America spends on Wars and Aid it is appalling how the social safety net is looked down upon a large group of Americans. This recession needs to end now
“It’s the one thing I can count on every month — I know the children are going to have food,” Ms. Bermudez, 42, said with the forced good cheer she mastered selling rows of new stucco homes.
Members of this straitened group range from displaced strivers like Ms. Bermudez to weathered men who sleep in shelters and barter cigarettes. Some draw on savings or sporadic under-the-table jobs. Some move in with relatives. Some get noncash help, like subsidized apartments. While some go without cash incomes only briefly before securing jobs or aid, others rely on food stamps alone for many months.
The surge in this precarious way of life has been so swift that few policy makers have noticed. But it attests to the growing role of food stamps within the safety net. One in eight Americans now receives food stamps, including one in four children.
via The Safety Net – Living on Nothing but Food Stamps – Series – NYTimes.com.
rePost::Bronte Capital: Globalizing the Australian Intergenerational Report – thinking about long term sovereign solvency in Australia, the US, New Zealand, Japan and China
Read the whole thing.
This is a post about long term solvency – the things that we do now that determine whether we have an economic crisis in twenty or thirty years. In that sense this is a post about Australia, the US, New Zealand, Canada and Japan and possibly even China. The PIGS have rolled their dice. Most the rest of us are still shaking the dice in the tumbler.
via Bronte Capital: Globalizing the Australian Intergenerational Report – thinking about long term sovereign solvency in Australia, the US, New Zealand, Japan and China.