MAYA

—————Top Five——————
1. Bobby McFarrin demonstrates expectations. Watch this.

2. Dean Kamen explains why you should fail like you mean it. Worth showing to kids.

3. Orwell versus Huxley explains everything.

4. How language makes us think. For instance, the Kuuk Thaayorre, of Northern Australia use cardinal directions instead of relative ones (eastern hand instead of right hand).

5. The Fray cover Kanye.

—————The Rest—————
Ok, one more talk from TEDGlobal that’s worth watching. This one’s about success and failure and how our perceptions of success have changed.

Human hover craft…

Astronauts really had it all.

I was worried when I saw that a movie was being made of this book and I’m afraid my worries were justified. Forget the movie, buy the book. It is one of the most fun/emotional sci-fi love stories I’ve seen in a long time and the movie doesn’t catch a tenth of it.

Recycle blog

Nice package design blog, good shots of robot supplies from the local shop in Ann Arbor.

Philips has an interesting take on personal activity monitoring (basically just monitor if you move at all)…