Showing posts with label The Week. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Week. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Life in Action

Photo by Don Mirra

See People in Action at TED. Technology, Entertainment, Design - Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers. Ideas worth spreading. Videos range from 4-20 minutes long by some of the most inspiring people in the world. It doesn't cost anything to view, please take a moment and glance through TED. It is important to understand our personal and world problems so we can fix them.

This TED video inspired me because it made a visual image of our daily behaviors that we are not seeing but should. Ignoring it will not make anything better. Knowledge is only half the power.

I mentioned this before, but if you want all your news in one paper, pick up a copy of The Week. It is a great short magazine that has all the top stories from the week. It takes about 1-2 hours to get a good recap of all the major happenings in the world.

Carpe Diem,
Angela DiCarlo

p.s. Thanks Don for sharing these with me. Your stories and your photography are inspirational. Don Mirra Photography


UPDATE: July 30, 2008 Don Mirra will be leaving for Kenya. Let's send him our best wishes for a safe and bountiful journey.

UPDATE: Don returned safely from his journeys.

Friday, June 27, 2008

Nerd Alert - Coolest Sites for Latest Technologies

Every day, my colleagues and I email each other the latest new technologies. I thought I was just a nerd, but one day I realized I was a full-fledged, early adopter, hybrid driving, organic food eating, green advocating, tech geek. There is no doubt about it. Here are some of my favorite sites for ultra geekiness. Subscribe to their RSS feeds if you want and enjoy daily coolness.

Want to stay on top of the latest techie news and toys? Find news and gadgets you never thought you needed but can no longer live without like Darth Vader USB Hubs that are abundant at Engadget

TechCrunch is full of useful stories like how Google Employees Get Japanese Space Toilets.

Make your home more Green while still being sexy at Inhabitat. And if you want to feel like you're outside when you're really inside, go to
The Sky Factory to dream about getting a virtual landscape ceilings for your home or office.

BBC is a great place for world news. Be wowed by innovative architecture with the 80-story Moving Skyscraper coming to Dubai on BBC.

In case you missed it, Bill Gates retired from Microsoft as CEO officially Friday, June 27, 2008. There's an awesome video with Bill, Jon Stewart, Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama, and many more. Take a few minutes if you can to enjoy.

If you have time to read one paper a week, this is it. The Week arrives every week in my mailbox with the top stories from around the world for the past week. Takes about an hour to read from cover to cover. No more searching multiple papers for interesting news, it's here.

I stll get Maxim and Fast Company. Yes, I am a lady but I enjoy Maxim, Men's Health and the occasional Vogue. Oh, and yes, women do love the smell of AXE. You need to take a shower anyway, so why not try it and see what happens, the last three men of interest had one thing in commmon...AXE.

And if you are a lady or have a lady in your life, there's a sale going on at Frederick's. Buy her something sexy. Try to get something she will like to wear like sexy cotton hiphugger panties and something for you to enjoy seeing her in like a patent leather corset or thigh high pantyhose.

By the way, I don't get paid for your clicks so don't think I am trying to push anything on you. I just felt like sharing some of my favorite sites.

Carpe Diem!
Angela DiCarlo :-)

Raise the happiness meter in the world.

p.s. If you tried to call me recently, you probably heard my GrandCentral voicemail. I was waiting patiently to purchase a Samsung Instinct Phone since my much beloved LG Fusic jumped out of my pocket and took a dive in the toilet. But the Instinct was well worth the wait. It's an amazing phone. I never used an iPhone, so I can't compare, but I am hooked on my Instinct. Total cost out of pocket was $247, with a $100 rebate coming in the mail. Instinct's everything a phone could ever want to be, including a 2 megapixel camera with direct upload to web, email or picture mail, awesome GPS with navigation, video camera, email access, messaging, calendar, and so on....Check out the Instinct if you're interested in a new phone.

p.p.s. My GrowMyProfit.com website is still going through some construction. If you know any more about Flash than me, please email me. The load page takes 30 seconds, so I had to put the incomplete HTML up.
Argh. ]:-O LOL