Bill Gates talks here about Terrapower: Taking current nuclear waste (depleted uranium) as fuel for a new kind of power plant. I'm no expert, but if this works as Bill wishes it to, it'll be one massive breakthrough not just for carbon emission, but by driving down the cost of electrical energy we could really fast forward on technology innovation.
That's quite a whole lot of tweets. 600 tweets per second. Who would have thought sharing short messages with the public mattered? =)
In 1985 Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie wrote "We Are The World" and
assembled many artists together to help Africa.
I recently watched The Cove, a documentary about the merciless slaughter of dolphins in Japan. One of the points brought up the group's leader Richard O'Barry was that dolphins should not be kept in captivity and that they suffer stress while in contained areas. He even cited the example of SeaWorld, one of the largest ocean park, as a bad example of dolphins in captivity.
This got me thinking about how much more stress dolphins would be in smaller parks. In Singapore we have the resort island Sentosa which has a Dolphin Lagoon where dolphin shows and events take place.
Already there was action taken against having a whale shark in captivity at Sentosa's new report, and I'm curious to find out if the Dolphin Lagoon just as bad for the dolphins as a large tank is for the whale shark.
Google Buzz is really Twitter with a Facebook philosophy. Buzz doesn't really replace Twitter because Twitter is designed to be totally public where someone you have never met and will never meet could read your posts and even subscribe to your stream. Buzz is only to be delivered to people you know. There's no public stream although someone could still read your posts via your profile.
But still, it's hard to discover new people on Buzz. Discovery on Google Buzz is much like Facebook where the system recommends you people they think you should or do know. But unlike Facebook, Buzz is too simple. Twitter simple, where all you get is a stream of consciousness. Facebook does a great job with sections: Photos go here, Videos there, Inbox on the top, etc. Then again like Facebook, comments are threaded and easy to follow unlike Twitter's open RT and @ the world way of dialog. I'm not sold on Buzz yet, but it may end up being like Google Talk's chat bar in Gmail. I use it simply because it's there in Gmail which is my browser's startpage btw. But with all social networks IMs, it's about where the crowd is at. Aside: Social Networks/IMs that I've tried and died include:
Too often jeans companies only let you look at the models wearing the goods, Wrangler lets you "play" with theirs. Fantastic frame-by-frame interactive play Wrangler has done on their site. Push the guy around, strip the shirt off his back. Nothing lets you appreciate jeans more than seeing them in action.
Love this campaign and the music is super awesome too!