korrasami

mostly cuz i'm trying to learn how to draw better and this style seems easy enough?

Shia LaBeouf

"There are no words to describe this. Just watch. I promise. You won’t be disappointed." via

December Finds: Earth to Mars and Privilege

Q: How far is it to Mars?
Super cool website by David Paliwoda and Jesse Williams illustrating the distance from Earth to Mars.

http://www.distancetomars.com/

Q: How will you build a better world?

"Graduating from Brown means gaining so much privilege, so much so that I know I must give back to my community in some way shape or form."

"I don't think I'll ever be able to fully answer that question, but Brown has taught me to never stop asking it."

Music Hijacks Our Perception of Time O.O

http://nautil.us/issue/9/time/how-music-hijacks-our-perception-of-time COOL!

BROWNNNN

PSA: Friends of Brown:
CLICK FOR AWESOMENESS and nostalgia.
(and creepy ghost leg, mysterious shadow, and bwrfc friend!)

From Many Moons Ago

I was doing some internet "research" stalking a while ago and read these articles that only just brush the surface on how incredible they are:

(click pictures for articles)

Kerri 

Kathy

Dana

I'm incredibly lucky to have them in my life, thank you!

Games

Spreading the wealth of gaming and sciences and tech and stuffs!

GameTruck - a video game or laser tag traveling party truck

Bricks4Kiz - parties and classes w Legos

I forget where I read about these 2 but I wrote them down.

And an oldie:

'All about ability' -
How the Paralympic Movement is maintaining momentum

Re-blog from the Onion: Life-Changing Epiphany Wears Off On Ride Home

LOL

Life-Changing Epiphany Wears Off On Ride Home 

ALBUQUERQUE, NM—Despite being overcome by a profound realization just minutes earlier that challenged his long-held beliefs and promised to forever alter his daily existence, sources confirmed that 42-year-old Thomas Wilson’s epiphany had fully worn off during his drive home Wednesday. The deeply affecting and eye-opening revelation, which in an instant had caused him to completely reassess his priorities, was reportedly pushed to the back of Wilson’s mind as he stopped to fill up his car with gas, fading to just a fraction of its initial impact moments later as he began listening to a podcast on his vehicle’s stereo system. According to reports, as Wilson shifted his focus to navigating road construction and merging onto a particularly busy stretch of highway, the last shred of his momentous eureka moment had nearly dissolved away. At press time, the life-changing insight was fully extinguished as Wilson walked in through his front door and discovered the latest Hammacher Schlemmer catalogue waiting in his mail.

via

Burnout Strats

Read: How some people conquer burnout.

“I had gotten disconnected from the purpose of why I’m doing what I’m doing, who I’m doing it for.” 

“More generally, I don't believe 'burnout' is a function of the amount or intensity of work one takes on. Rather, feeling burned out is usually caused by a misalignment between the individual and their daily tasks. If you're plugged in--and are fully committed to, and believe, in the mission of your work--you'll never truly experience burnout. It's the difference between work-life balance and work-life integration.”

Memories

Serendipitous Poetry

haiku.nytimes.com

Acclaim

Monthly master taxonomy updates for a client... asked a friend if I could bridge "ACCLAIM" to Acclaim Health and he said as long as it's not this one:

Nice 90s beats too.

Why FB employees approve of Zuck

Read Quote of Amir Memon's answer to Why does Mark Zuckerberg have a 99% approval rating from his employees? on Quora

Google "viz gottavizemall"

That's all. ;)

Awesome old school rugby vid!

Can't figure out how to embed :/ So you'll have to click through: http://www.olympic.org/rugby

Summer reading list

Here are 5 good books recommended by fellow Quorans (What are the best books on startups or entrepreneurship?):

1. The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
2. The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki
3. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston
4. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
5. Rework  by 37signals

FLY, you fools!

We are fools.

peekaboo.

Foxes here!

Nelson Mandela Doodle Today

"

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

The greatest glort in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall.

"

Pickup Lines

Work is burning my brain right now

The Rottiboard

#ROTTI

Beast

No, not Beast from X-Men. Selica Winiata!

Daaaaaamn. Also, check out her profile. Here's a teaser:

Physical:

1.55CM, 58KG

Data Visualization Wet Dream

Everyone needs to see this!!!!!!

GO GO GO! GO GO GO! GO GO GO! 

Video day! About Rugby and the Objectification of Disability

Rest in Power

They may not be life changing but they are surely words of wisdom.

BRIDGING MADNESS

I THINK THIS IS SO FUNNY. HAHAHAHAHA. (MANIC LAUGHTER.)

(Thanks Ynes!)

Edit: more fine print: at first I wrote and published "I THIS IS IS SO FUNNY" ...bridging madness.

Good Reads

A Jonny Wilkinson article full of on point reflections

My obsession to win has, in the past, made my life hell. My whole self-worth was caught up in that for a while but I've learnt to maintain perspective. 

"Why I Retired At 26" By Rashard Mendenhall, NFL Running Back, Arizona Cardinals

Let's a go!

Saw this video here on Gizmodo

And while Googling for this post I stumbled across this pool of nostalgia ^^: Mario Kart sounds

LOTRTDMME ROUND 2 THIS WEEKEND HYPEHYPEHYPE

New Year, New Inspiration

Aerial Boston (Fenway & Boston Common) from Above Summit on Vimeo.

The Meanings of the Selfie, by James Franco :)

"Asians are the Wedge"
Lots of good stuff, but also I've heard people try to put Asians down as an immigrant group by saying "you know, you guys have the highest median income - even higher than Whites!" but this article makes the important clarification - "However, per capita income of Asian Americans is lower than for whites. Asian households make more because they contain more earners, probably as a result of living in households that benefit from the retirement incomes of elders." 

and continues on to say:

More troubling, according to the report A Community of Contrasts, the 2011 per capita income of Taiwanese Americans was $38,312. However, per capita income of Hmong Americans was only $10,949. That makes the Hmong the lowest per capita earners by ethnicity among all Americans. And Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, and Bangladeshis are pretty much in the same boat, earning even less than African Americans.
Worse yet, the model minority myth is dehumanizing. Casting us as super human is the flip side of casting other people of color as less than human, making all of us strangers to a normative standard that is white.
As long as we are treated as exotic others, the script can be switched, and Asians may find ourselves back where we started, cast again as foreign invaders. Either way, we’re still a wedge in the hands of white supremacy.