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Innovate or Die

Google and Specialized Bikes have teamed up to bring us the "Innovate or Die" Contest. They're looking for innovative new ways of channeling pedaling power into everyday energy use. Here's a video of one of their examples:

Park(ing) Day LA

In 2005, a group in San Francisco turned metered parking spaces into parks....A group in LA is following suit on Friday, September 21st.

Check out what they are doing, and where they are doing it across the Southland...

Parks NOT Parking!

Park(ing) Day LA

Burning Man 2007

Just got back from Black Rock City, it was quite an eventful year: copious dust storms, a lunar eclipse, arson, a suicide, 'splosions and one amazing double rainbow. Felt like the town got a little too close for comfort the weekend of the burn, topping out at 47,097 participants. But you can't deny that it's still the most creative summer's end hoedown in the world.

Burning Man 2007 pictures on Flickr

TV Free Burning Man Videos

TRI-PONG FOR ALL!

Our infamous friend, Secil Boyd, shared he and his wife Melba's, invention with us.  And as Tri-Pong's most ardent supporter, Cheristy can attest that Tri-Pong has proven to be a great stress release.  We gotta get a tourney going soon!  Check out the rules at Wikipedia.

Interested in Offsetting Your Cheating?

This is an interesting site called CheatNeutral, which offers their take on the carbon offsetting programs...and as their motto says "Helping You Because You Can't Help Yourself." If you are interested in cheating at all, you should check it out.....

CheatNeutral

Breath Of Fresh Ocean

This Greenpeace video campaign will have you breathing deeply while thinking the deepest of thoughts. Koyaanisqatsi-esque time lapse film always gets you to stop. And think.

Army Restricts Blogging, Blocks Access To YouTube, MySpace, MTV, More...

This is just plain sad....

Irony of Romping Monday and Fat Tuesday

In Latin countries, the CARNAVAL is centered on Tuesday (Mardi Gras, Martedi Grasso), but all of these traditions involve a raucous sending up of normal decorum. Carnival can be understood as letting off steam ahead of the austerities of Lent. If gluttony marks the Monday-Tuesday festivities, the overconsumption comes originally from the practical need to clear the household of the food and drink forbidden in the penitential season, which begins with ashes on Wednesday. But more is at stake in the wildness than a mere prelude to penance.

This week's glad interruption in time is a gift from the deep past. Carnival foolishness is self-surpassing, whether deemed holy or not. Either way, it is a reminder that we humans on the earth were made for more than appears before the eyes.

The Boston Globe
Monday, February 19, 2007

Celebrate Black History Month

Have a look at Biography's very informative interactive Black History Month timline

The Creative Mind

A stellar promotion site for the Adobe Creative Suite:

www.adobe.com/creativemind/