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What’s ‘Your’ Personal Fudge Factor?
A fascinating look at human nature from a moral perspective. How much do you cheat? Social science studies indicate we all do at some level. We feel that if we cheat, just a little bit, we can still look in the mirror and feel good about ourselves. How does our cheating affect others? If cheating involves money, on average we…
Read more »Change for A Dollar
This is wonderfully moving video posted by a friend on Facebook. It brought me to tears as I watched it on Christmas morning. There is more Christmas Spirit in these ten minutes than there is in all the presents under anyone’s tree. We often overlook the marginalized and forget that they have needs too. Most homeless people are not there…
Read more »Sarah Kay: How Many Lives Can You Live
A bit outside my comfort zone for the first few moments, but what a wonderful video and what an amazing story teller. Well worth watching.
Read more »Life Lessons from an Ad Man
A wonderful Ted talk that I stumbled across that has some very good messages intertwined in a hilarious look at consumerism and the misperceptions that we have with respect to what we think we want. It also has a hysterical Canadian example of marketers recreating value in something that is already well known, but perhaps has become perceived as less…
Read more »Less stuff, more happiness
Once upon a time we bought a small condo. The plan was to move up into a bigger condo in a few years, then a townhouse, then eventually a house. Then we bought a boat, and priorities changed a bit. Why did we want a bigger place for just two of us? I’m a clutter hater, so more room just…
Read more »Battling Bad Science
This is actually two things. #1. A wonderful video on science and false or inflated claims, and #2. A fabulous demonstration of why you should question everything from the person who identifies him/herself as an authority based on credentials, to the recommendations you read in the media. Do your own investigations, but don’t just read the reports that support what…
Read more »Keep Your Goals to Yourself
Maybe it’s a bit harsh, and I’d hazard to say that personality plays a significant role, but I also wouldn’t completely disagree with his conclusion as I know many people who have said I’m going to do such and such, or go to (fill in the blank), and then fail to follow through. Usually it only affects them, but in…
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iDentify
MacUpdate introduced me to a fabulous little (free to very inexpensive) video tagging program. It’s wonderful. I have probably about 250 videos on a hard drive. Some have tags, most just have a file name that tells me what the video is. They are all accessible from the living room TV via Apple TV, either on its hard drive or…
Read more »Sunscreen
I was listening to iTunes this morning and this song popped up. Since the first time I heard it, I have loved the messages within it. Some things we should always think about. There are so many wonderful moments in our lives, we forget about them too often and focus on issues that are meaningless in the grand scheme of…
Read more »Oil Addiction
The history of our addiction to oil is nicely (or horribly) depicted in this music video.
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