Flush Differently, Part II

http://cleanishappy.com/

Technology aside, I find the animated faces on this site a bit disturbing.

Flush Differently

Innovations In Learning

Just heard about the Innovations In Learning Conference, which is on right now, in California…

http://www.brandonhallconference.com/

Why am I not there?

Stories From The Intersection

I’m very pleased and very excited to see some new posts on one of my favourite blogs Stories From The Intersection. As the tag line states, “Stories about breakthrough insights at the intersection of fields, disciplines and cultures”. Give it a read!

Some recent posts:

• Climate change generates new solutions in car design
• Intersecting cultures gave birth to the Burqini
• Interdisciplinary research behind surgery simulator and underwear

Vote Differently

The Ontario Provincial Election and referendum on a Mixed Member Proportional voting system (MMP) is on October 10, 2007. For more information on the referendum, view the video below:

Innovation In Reading

From the New York Times, September 06, 2007 – “Envisioning the Next Chapter for Electronic Books“. Click on the name of the article to access it.

I’ve always had my doubts that the e-book will ever take off. The only thing that the concept has going for it is, as Ron Hawkins, vice president for portable reader systems at Sony is quoted in the article,

Digital readers are not a replacement for a print book; they are a replacement for a stack of print books…That is where we see people, on the go, in the subway and in airports, with our device.

The other thing that really gets me is the thought that there should be a separate device to read e-books. A separate device to carry around just to read books from? Not integrated into my PDA or laptop? It doesn’t make sense.

Innovative Banana

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070110/giant_banana_070110/20070110/

I’m sure that much more than $65,000 is spent every day on far more silly things.