Linked here is a the first twitter tweet by Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006 at 1:02PM.
This information came from a tweet by Jack linked here on March 13, 2011 which says …
“5 years ago today we started programming Twitter (“twttr” for short). 8 days later the first tweet was sent: http://t.co/Vi5ii5A #twttr”
Take a look at this chair at ErgoDepot.com
It looks a bit unusual because you don’t often see them in chair. But someone told me that it was the most comfortable chairs.
Look at the pictures on these pillow cases. It is obvious which one is for him and which one is for her. But that means that he has to sleep on the right and she on the left if you want the picture to match up.
Jon Jon Kabat-Zinn is an author and authority on mindfulness meditation. He developed the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program and founded the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. His book is “Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness” which is a guide to help people overcome stress and pain through the use of mindfulness meditation.
As he says in this MITWorld video, mindfulness it is “Paying attention, on-purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally”
He also talked at Google…
Here are some slippers that cleans the floor as you walk. They are more designed for cleaning hardwood floor as opposed to carpet. For carpets, you are better off using a vacuum cleaner.
They work better if you walk in a sweeping motion. And make sure you dust off the dirt afterward; otherwise you track dirt back onto the floor that you’ve just cleaned.
They come in different colors and but not sure if they come in different sizes.
There are a lot of controversy around global warming. Find the facts from a reputable source. The documentary An Inconvenient Truth is presented by Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States. Although he did not win the 2000 presidential elections; he did win the Nobel Peace prize in 2007 for his crusade to fight global warming. He is also chairman of Alliance for Climate Protection.
After seeing this film, I thoroughly recommend it. The charts and animations and graphical presentation of the facts are amazingly well done. You will be shocked to see the before and after picture of the glaciers. It makes the dangers of global warming crystal clear without needing a scientific background.
It won two Academy Awards including “best documentary”. If you missed the film in the box offices, get the DVD or purchase an download.
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This book is not only insightful, but very amusing. At times, the author Daniel Gilbert who is an psychology professor at Harvard University, writes as if a comedian. I normally do not read the acknowledgements of a book. But it starts out so funny that I had to read the rest of it as well as the forward.
This book gives lot of concrete examples and results of studies that shows that people often do not know in advanced what will make them happy. Just like the eyes can be fooled by opticial illusions, the minds imagination of the future can be fooled. Just like we can not accurately remember the past, we can not accurately fortell the future or how we would feel if this or that event were to happen. Our imagination has three shortcomings that we are often not aware of: a) Realism — The mind fills in a lot of gaps and makes a lot of things up. We tend to forget this and hence our imagination seem more real to us than should give it credit for. b) Presentism — Our imagination of the future is affected by our current state. c) Rationalization — We tend to look for things that confirms our belief or than enhances our attitude towards our current state. We are also often fooled by how and what we look for things. This is summarized on page 183 that says “The brain and the ey may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye see, but in return the ey has agreed to look for what the brain wants.” The relationship between wealth and happiness is also very interesting. On page 239, it says “Economists and psychologists have spent decades studying the relation between wealth and happiness, and they have generally concluded that wealth increases human happiness when it lifts people out of abject poverty and into the middle class but that it does little to increase happiness thereafter. Americans who earn $50,000 per year are much happier than those who earn $10,000 per year, but Americans who earn $5 million per year are not much happier than those who earn $100,000 per year.” This is the concept of declining marginal utility of money. When you have none, it makes you happy to have some. But once you have enough, any additional amounts will give you a less and less return on happiness. To hear more from Daniel Gilbert, watch this video. |
Daniel Gilbert, author of the book Stumbling on Happiness
Eva Vertes poses some interesting questions about cancer. Could it be that cancer is the body own immune system go awry and unable to complete the process?
John Maeda, author of The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)