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The above video is Jeff Tweedy in an attempt to understand why people go to a concerts and then just talk to their mates instead of listening and taking part in the experience.

I think most of us have experienced it.
Jeff put’s it really well.

It’s really really cool, if you just, if everybody was really quiet for just one second. You feel yourself being in a room full of people. With all their hearts beating. And all of their thoughts and feelings and you’re part of it. You’re not just you. You’re part of a group of people. In a really beautiful way. It’s a really wonderful thing to be part of. But you have to pay attention to it.

It’s not just me. I’m not just being some pissy artist. It’s what you do when you go to a concert. You’re being a part of it.

You don’t set yourself apart from everybody.
You’re part of something.
It’s wonderful.
It’s joyous.

Via Joakim Jansson’s last.fm journal

Neon Bible by Arcade Fire

About two months ago I posted a post titled Hans Rosling… a smart guy, which included a link to a video of a talk done by Hans Rosling, a Swedish professor of international health at Karolinska Institutem and founder of Gapminder, where he talks about the myths about the “developing” world.

Once again I have come across a talk held under the name TED talks that is really interesting. This time it’s the professor Barry Schwartz who talks about the Paradox of Choice.

The reason that “everything was better back when everything was worse”, is that when everything was worse it was actually possible for people to have experiences that were a pleasant surprise.

Barry Schwartz is a sociology professor at Swarthmore College and author of the book The Paradox of Choice.

I found both talks really interesting.

• Barry Schwartz talk about The Paradox of Choice
• Hans Rosling talk about world health and the myth about the “developing world”.

The 44 links posted below are not actually all from today. They stretch all the way back to beginning of august.

• The DarkHat: Britney Spears Is Scary
  It is not that scary… just makes you wonder when she will start making the same kind of toasts as Elvis and ultimatly reach the same end screen.
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Apple admits excessive iPod hours
  “Apple Computer has said a report of labour conditions at its iPod plant in China found workers did more than 60 hours a week a third of the time.”
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - UT Library Online
  If you ever need a map, these guys have got just about everything.
• My Project Puppet.com Chewbacca!
  He looks a bit weird. But if your planing to make a softtoy Chubacca…
• The Art of Adam Betts
  The guy who designed the Adium icon.
• Apple - Trailers - Borat - Trailer G
  This movie is going to be so great. Not many trailers gets me to laugh out loud.
• Getting Back To The Business Brickyard. . . Bookshelf // Dig Tank
  “The purpose of a business is to create a customer.” about marketing and it’s books.
• Internet Soul Portraits
  Screenshots of large site with there text tripped off.
• Marian Bantjes
  Very nice typography skills going on here!
• Starts to play on radio right now
  A very nice interactive piece that show’s you what starts to play on radio right now (in america).
• Jason Kottke, August, 2006 :: Rebecca Blood: Bloggers On Blogging
  An interview with Jason Kottke - a full time blogger. I don’t read his blog, but I find the whole “famous blog symptom” interesting. And the choice of accepting ad’s…
• TIME.com: 50 Coolest Websites
  Please define ‘Cool’.
• Not strictly commercial - Los Angeles Times
  “I had a guy come up to me, in my face, saying, ‘You think you’re so cool? You’re not cool’ and I’m saying to him, ‘Dude, it’s a commercial.’ ” Interview with the Apple commercial dude (also know from the TV series Ed).
• Creating graphs, Part 2 | Bartelme Design
  Illustrator tips and tricks.
• RSS Reading Preferences, Part 2 | Bartelme Design
  Feeds and behavior… now that’s the kind of blog post I’d like to see! Someone who spends some time to create content. Not just echoing the internet.
• China bans foreign cartoons from prime-time TV - Yahoo! News
  “Beginning Sept. 1, regulators have barred foreign cartoons from TV from 5 to 8 p.m. in an effort to protect China’s struggling animation studios”
• Is it friday?
  on of those really useful websites.
• Today’s Blog Music / The Hype Machine - discover, listen and buy music discussed on the best mp3 blogs
  An aggregator who search blogs for mp3’s.
• Fernando Leal {Illustration+Animation}
  Some really nice stuff going on here.
• Call Me Fishmeal.: Memes that need to die.
  “WWDC is a developer conference. Aimed at developers. Who develop software. Those of us who are developers are freaking amazed at all the great stuff that’s in Leopard.”
• 37signals: An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design
  “… there are literally billions of possible pixel combinations for each page we make.”
• Balancing Point In Reverse - BREAK.com
  This a pretty awesome movie made entirely in reverse. This must have taken forever to make but I think it turned out really well. It reminds me of that scene in the classic Val Kilmer movie Top Secret.
• Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas, original design by Stamen, press any key to s
  Draw. Click to change color. Very nice. A good way to make art ;) (I really like it and it reminds me of my friend Vinh Kha).
• LiveSurface Layered Image Library
  Introducing the Shift LiveSurface Layered Image Library: high-resolution Photoshop image templates with pre-masked surfaces.
• Quick change
  Honestly, even though the Hoff is in the judging panel - this is good!
• A war on terror simulation.
  “This is not a game. You can’t win and you can’t lose. This is a simulation. It has no edning. It has already begun. The rules are deadly simple. You can shot. Or not. This is a simple model you can use to explore some aspects of the war on terror.”
• Weighing a Switch to a Mac - New York Times
  “Ten years ago, if you were a Windows user, the idea of switching to a Macintosh might not have seemed enticing. An abundance of new Windows software was arriving on store shelves, while the selection available to Mac users seemed to be falling behind…”
• How About an E-mail On That? - Yahoo! News
  “Cell phone users spend lots of time talking into their devices, but they generally communicate with very few people. Just how few? Would you believe four?”
• LOVELINES : From Love to Hate, in Words and Pictures
  Basiclly the same as wefeelfine.org, but this time it’s about love (and done in flash instead of java). I prefer wefeelfine.org,
• Newsvine - Exposing Sony’s Corporate Shills
  This bookmark is saved for later use.
• Blogging the conflict in Lebanon
  The music industry got slapped in the face my Mr Mp3. Will journalism and magazines be slapped in the face by Mr Blogg?
• YMCK Official Web Site
  This made me think about Magnus Lowing. A 8bit NES sound keyboard.
• Interview with Jakob Nielsen [Usability and Information Architecture]
• The GoogleMaps flight sim
  Really nice.
• Macworld UK - Google nabs MySpace search deal
  To be honest I wouldn’t be to worried if I was Yahoo.
• Helvetica
  A movie about a famous typeface.
• Urbancounterfeiters
  Urban Outfitters plagarism, copying, and otherwise ripping-off. found on http://k10k.net/newspost.aspx?id=13898
• Daring Fireball: Highly Selective
  About anchored and unanchored lists in Apple OS X UI. I have no opinion on this one.
• CNN.com - Eskimo village destroyed by fire - Aug 5, 2006
  …. but but but but… were are the igloos?
• YouTube - OK Go - Here It Goes Again
  Since I bookmarked this one, and today (16 days), this video has done a lot of internet travel. The simple explanation for that is - it’s fucking great. (good song too).
• BBC NEWS | Technology | How the web went world wide
  One key date is 6 August 1991
• – madeyouthink –
• The World’s Most Photorealistic Vector Art
• What Web 2.0 means to 500 random Basecamp customers - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)

It felt a bit wrong linking to this video on the pervious post, a post including links to a David Hasselhoff music video and an article about someone waking up with a lightbuld in their ass…

So here’s the link to Hans Rosling’s talk:
Hans Rosling on TED Talks

And see it. All of you.
It’s really good and really interesting.

• Super Mario - Live - Google Video
  This video made me laugh out loud several times!
• A short history of blogging.
  How it started and when publishing stuff online got the title ‘blog’.

• microformats
  Found this link through simplebits. We are getting there - soon everything will be standard and all you do is “shape” the already set standard markup (after all, all websites are almost the same)
• CSS Resources in one handy hyperlinked PDF file
  “I’ve assembled all my CSS resources in this handy PDF file and instead of keeping it for myself I’m sharing this with the rest of the community.” Well: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
• Beluga Whale blows Bubbles: ITN - Google Video
  wow. Beluga whale! The next dog.
• Robert Newman History of oil - Google Video
  Gonna download and see this tonight.
• Ruler.
  Smart way of checking sizes in css and different elements. I normally just write a span with inline css to a certain width. This is a bit fancier (and probably better and more precise (for the untrained eye ;))
• Apple Sponsors In The Piston Cup Circuit
• A Ring Tone Meant to Fall on Deaf Ears - New York Times
  A ring tone adults can’t hear. I can hear it. But I would probably not notice it.

• Box Office Mojo > All Time Box Office > Opening Weekends
  The da vinci code brought in alot of money this weekend. But to be honest - thought it would do better (but i hoped it didn’t (know on wood)).
• Russian climbing - Google Video
  jump, jump, jump around (very impressive).
• Comcastic
  saw this a while back, but it’s a amazing peice of work. the pupets in the ‘on demand’ section is just… worldclass.
• Jobsintown.de - Advertising/Design Goodness
  very very smart and well executed advertising.
• Thanks. No.
  this might come in handy… and I find it quite funny.
• YouTube - Fast OS Switching on MacBook
  thought this was a bit futher away into the future. switching OS’s the way you switch users.