So little time, so much to do. Have to stop spending precious hours wandering aimlessly through cyberspace or glued to the tubes. Much is to achieved in life and only those who work for it are going to get it. (bar the underprivileged elite)
“Give me a firm point to stand on, and I will move the earth”
- Archimedes
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http://www.ironman703singapore.com
The AVIVA Ironman 70.3 Singapore is the first Ironman 70.3 race in Asia. The inaugural race will take place on 2 September 2007 in the global city of Singapore. With a unique race course taking participants around the multi-cultural city, the AVIVA Ironman 70.3 Singapore race experience will certainly be memorable for all participants.
1.9km swim, 90.1km bike, 21.1km run. Not that long a distance right? Hm.. If only i had a bike.
Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil. Each believes that when he dies he is going to heaven. Each believes that if he could kill the other, his path to paradise in the next world would be even swifter. The delusional “next world” is welcome to both of them. This world would be a much better place without either of them.
- Richard Dawkins
http://www.fundistraction.com/2007/06/darkie-toothpaste.html
Hong Kong’s Hazel & Hawley Chemical Co. would probably still be hawking Darkie toothpaste had the company not been acquired by Colgate. The Darkie brand’s Al Jolson-inspired logo, a grinning caricature in blackface and a top hat, was as offensive as its name. Colgate bought the company in 1985, and then ditched the logo and changed the product’s name to Darlie after US civil rights groups protested. However, the Cantonese name – Haak Yahn Nga Gou [黑人牙膏] (Black Man Toothpaste) – remains.
Feel free to use this jpg i made.
To be ‘Carbon Neutral’ means to calculate the amount of greenhouse gas emissions your life creates, and paying to reduce the equivalent emissions from entering the atmosphere somewhere else through the planting of trees, methane combustion or other energy renewable and conservation projects. This is equivalent to emissions trading, but without the strict regulations and legalities. Companies and people who wish to combat the degradation in the earth’s atmosphere voluntarily purchase Carbon Offsets as there are no laws mandating it.
The average person produces 2.5tonnes of CO2 yearly while an adult tree only absorbs 22kg of CO2 annually. Therefore it’ll take a hundred trees to balance one person’s emission.
Singapore currently has no campaign or movement encouraging corporate and public entities or individuals to go Carbon Neutral. So spread the word.
Calculate how much carbon you are generating HERE.
As such, i’m putting my plant up for sponsorship to act as a carbon offset for whoever wants to move towards achieving Carbon Neutral status.
http://theory.isthereason.com/
“Youtube and beyond: What you want to know but never knew who to ask”
A public talk on the present and future of online video sharing by Kevin Lim
When
Tuesday, 19 Jun 2007
7:00PM – 8.30PM
(I’ll be there at 6pm for the early birds!)
Where
Multi-purpose Room, Central Lending Library
(Basement of National Library, Victoria Street)
Click for Map
What
Youtubers, Videobloggers, Video podcasters, or anyone who wants to get started with sharing videos online, this interactive session is perfect for you! Here are 5 reasons why you have to join in:
* Explore the world of free video sharing services -> going beyond Youtube
* Learn tips to producing great video for web -> high quality, small file size
* How to protect yourself by staying legal -> copyright, Creative Commons
* See the future of online videos -> Lifecasting and searching within videos
* Make friends and show your clips with fellow video bloggers!
Plus: If there’s time, learn how to videocast without spending a bomb on web hosting, by integrating Internet Archive with your blog.
Who
Kevin Lim [of theory.isthereason.com] is currently pursuing his PhD in Communication and is teaching in the Educational Technology Center at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). He studies the wide-ranging cultural affordances of technology, focusing particularly on the pedagogical aspects of social media. Being passionate about making and sharing videos, Kevin is currently challenging notions of virtuality through his modular “sousveillance” backpack. In an attempt at enhancing the usefulness of video, this unique backpack allows him to experiment with lifecasting, ambient intimacy, and video as a form of memory prosthetic (also see eyetap and wearcam).
http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/3615790.html
(via boingboing.net)
