This is a shocking documentary about the manufacturing process of billions of single use chopsticks. The video clip is in mandarin, but I’ve summarized the key points below after the video. What the clip doesn’t say is where these chopsticks end up – if it’s only for Chinese internal consumption then the damage can still [...]

You know when a social media technology hits the tipping point when some boring mainstream newspaper in some boring island bother to report about it. Come join the latest in thing in town, foursquare. Sign up and add me as a friend and you’ll get to see some of the interesting places that I go [...]

Source: www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/what-does-china-censor-online
Data Source: Spreadsheet on Google Docs

And Street View is finally launched here on sunny island. Has been more than a year since the vans were running around the streets.
This is my new place that I’ll be moving in next year, if everything goes well. And will be stuck there for quite some time (unless I leave the country that is).

Or [...]

Source: mathworld.wolfram.com/TuppersSelf-ReferentialFormula.html
The best self-referential formula I can come up with today is 1, plotted over some finite x and result in chinese This is amazing! At first I couldn’t believe it, until auditing and seeing it is action written in javascript.
No wonder I didn’t do well in math in college…

The quote that’s often attributed to architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, can be traced to the following article by R.M. Schindler written in 1926 entitled “Care Of The Body“.
www.globalpossibilities.org/old/project1f_article.html
(the quote is on page 6)
How refreshing the article bring forth in terms of home concepts. Layers of air in an air tight room at [...]

Live Refugee Channel (what an irony) – 3 days to World Refugee Day

Visit refugeedaylive.org for more information (or if the stream above doesn’t work).

It’s 1.5 hours long, but the quality and scenes are awesome! Watch it in HD and blast it on your TV if you can. The music was very inspiring too!

Update: Or see it on www.youtube.com/homeproject if something’s wrong on the embedding.

HackerNews-ed site good for managers and geeks alike Sometimes you wish your compensation is more proportional to this guide than the number of years you have worked in a company.
Source: IndianGeek

Personally, I think I have all the level 2s, even without much coding practice these days. At points in my life I’ve attempted [...]

The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation tells of an all too familiar syndrome of my own. I mean, I grew up distracted by the world around me. Here’s a short snippet as well as some highlights.
In Defense of Distraction
Twitter, Adderall, lifehacking, mindful jogging, power browsing, Obama’s BlackBerry, and the benefits of overstimulation.
Source: New York [...]