Float Dissolve

Very beautiful sketches and illustrations to massage your sore eyes.

(Infected by Drawn!)

jolly ranchers stuck in my molars
two women walking down a road with no sidewalk

yellow vehicles splash ridiculous feelings
cracked doorways, melted windows

open minds deconstructing closed systems

plastic treasure chest filled with baby teeth
sitting in a laundry basket watching double dare

came to virginia and rode my bike down the street with just a shirt and underwear

grey black environment dust filled lungs
congested habits

(Infected by Boing Boing)

“Imagine a game that starts with single-celled microorganisms and allows you to control the evolution of a species all the way to galactic conquest.”

That’s the first time in years I actually watched the opening flash animation for a site. The site itself is complete garbage, haha, but this game is just ridiculous. The more I hear about it the more I go, wow that’s ridiculous.

“I don’t want players to feel like Luke Skywalker. I want them to feel like George Lucas.”

mtv.com:
“From “Sims” and “SimCity” inventor Will Wright comes “Spore,” a game that starts as a modest reinterpretation of “Pac-Man” but develops into something far grander. Players begin by controlling a mere single-cell organism, steering it through the hostile primordial ooze. A character editor allows players to add a spike or stump to their creature and let it mate so that it can evolve. After a few generations, the organism is multicellular, and the game plays like an early 3-D action title. Then the evolving creature steps on land and stars in a colorful game of survival of the fittest. Players control the species and then, as civilization develops, the game turns into a simplified “SimCity.” Eventually comes a phase that mirrors the strategy of the society-building game “Civilization,” followed by the discovery of UFOs, which allows the exploration, colonization or destruction of worlds in a view that zooms out to ultimately include an entire universe. If that’s not ambitious enough, the creatures and worlds created within one copy of “Spore” will be transmitted to an online database that will disseminate them to the universes of players around the world.”

One day I will play videogames again and it might be this one.

Experts predict that the US will need more than two million new teachers in the next decade. So, how do we inspire today’s young adults to become tomorrow’s educators?

We all can be educators. I think we are all just scratching the surface of the potential we have right in front of us. I think our problem is that my generation is holding the last vestige of a culture conditioned to believe that there are wizards behind a curtain who do all the great things in our world. We go through the first 18 years of our lives being told to be quiet and listen or go to the office. Wisdom is a combination of book knowledge and experiential knowledge. Our society has put all of the emphasis on book knowledge. Technology is on the verge of allowing everyone to realize the walls between us are an artificial abstraction. Teaching is the only way to truly change the world and it is not confined to a classroom. I feel like we’re in the calm before the storm right now and it’s extremely exciting.

Some other links of note: Education Revolution, iCampus, Free Education, Fathom, Nuuvo.

These turned up with a quick search and scan by myself, not sure how great they all are but they are all interesting, except Nuuvo which I know is a fantastic idea. If you have any you know about please tell me, I’d really appreciate it!

(Infected by Joi Ito)

A very interesting, inspiring and motivating site dedicated to its namesake. They’re currently looking to raise $150,000 to start a worldwide conversation about the future. Two contributors have offered to contribute 3:1 for all donations.

(Infected by Evolve Happy)

This makes me drool.

Super awesome site of user-submitted diy projects of all types.

Horrible logo but very cool stock market game for websites based on traffic. It’s free and you get $10,000 when you sign up.