Ah. Reasoned and intelligent discourse from Fox News. Wait. What? I was as shocked as anyone. Shep Smith and Napolitano remain the only two sane voices in a loud bowling alley of troglodytes. More transparency now, please.
Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Andrew Napolitano and Shep Smith on the Wikileaks Debacle
Posted in Bureaucratic Nightmare, Education, Politics, tagged Andrew Napolitano, Shepard Smith, transparency, Wikileaks on November 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Wow.
Posted in Art, Creativity, Education, Film, tagged embrace life, seatbelt. UK, Sussex Safer roads, Sussex Seat Belt Advert on February 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Ah, the Brits and their advertising. Sometimes they’re just working on another level.
How People Like Brian Eno Come Into Existence
Posted in Art, blog, Creativity, Design, Education, illustration, Innovation, Quotes, tagged art school, Brian Eno, Oblique Strategies, Oscar Wilde, Prince, Tom Waits, Wired on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wired has a great little article from March about Brian Eno’s art school days here. A couple of things struck me about the article: The deliberate introduction of randomness in Brian Eno’s life, and the idea of changing artistic and social roles to facilitate new and interesting art. Eno’s art professors would have the students [...]
David Simon on Bill Maher
Posted in Art, blog, Comedy, Education, Politics, Quotes, tagged Bill Maher, David Simon, Decline of newspapers, Drug War, The Wire on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some pretty salient points on the “Drug War,” and absolutely spot-on in his critique of Capitalism as Social Framework: David Simon: Capitalism is a wonderful engine, but how we mistook it for a social framework for how to build a just society and interpreted it that way is just incredible. There’s also a couple of [...]
Steve Jobs: Don’t Live Someone Else’s Life
Posted in Education, Innovation, Quotes, tagged Courage, Desiradata, Information wants to be free, Inner Voice, Max Ehrmann, Steve Jobs, trapped by dogma on April 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow [...]
Sir Ken Robinson on How Schools Kill Creativity
Posted in Creativity, Education, tagged Sir Ken Robinson, Spreading Ideas, Technology Entertainment Design on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From his TED talk Feb 2006: Whenever something is depressing or pissing me off, I go to TED.com and get inspired by the brilliant people focusing on solutions for this planet, rather than bitching about it. Or I drink scotch and curse the rich.
