Baile de manos

Watch and be amazed.

Get out of my head

What happens when Dracula has insomnia?

He gets a sunburn.

It's finally getting cold

I feel so bad for my brother, Jeff. He studies his heart out every day and he has to do it in this prison hole of a library. How does he survive?

If you want to see some awesome pictures of dust storms in Australia, submarines breaking through ice, how Vladimir Putin relaxes and upside down whales, go to Time.com and look at the Year in Pictures photos. Cool stuff.

The Falling Man

WARNING: This video is extremely sad. I just watched it in my Rhetoric of Violent Images class and it made more than one of us cry. But it's really powerful and it's a film people should see, so if you have some time, watch it.

It shows an aspect of what happened on September 11 that not many are aware of because the media and the country chose to exclude the horrifying details of this hidden story when many expressed outrage at its awfulness.

It didn't really give Americans a fair chance to understand what little we could about this part of the immense terror the people in the World Trade Center must have felt - enough terror to jump to their deaths a thousand feet below and become one of many "falling" people.



None of us will ever really fathom the magnitude of a situation like this since we weren't there, but the video gives a little insight into what it was like and lets us put ourselves in their position.

What would you have done? Waited bravely, albeit terrified, for the smoke and the flames to engulf you, or taken control of your last moments in a gut-wrenching instant of courage and spirit?

Zuckerberg the Philanthropist

I think it'd be very interesting to sit down and have lunch with this guy.

Zuckerberg the Philanthropist
The New Yorker

Posted by Jose Antonio Vargas

“What makes Mark tick?” is the most common question coming from readers of my Profile of Facebook’s C.E.O, Mark Zuckerberg. After that, they ask, via e-mail, tweets, Facebook messages, and a live chat last week, versions of “What will Mark do with all that money?”

Apparently, Mark will give a lot of it away. Wednesday night, the New York Times broke the story that the Facebook co-founder, in his first public act of philanthropy, will donate $100 million to the Newark Public Schools—one-eighth of its annual operating budget.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/09/zuckerberg-the-philanthropist.html#ixzz10bkoTgLn

Also, check out The Face of Facebook, a really interesting profile about the man himself. Good read.

chilling effect

I'm going on one of these someday. To the Arctic Ocean, preferably.

Coming with?

a few things

One:

Best of Austin City Limits Music Festival 2009: Andrew Bird: Not a Robot But a Ghost

Two:

Andrew Bird - Oh no (Live at 89.3 The Current)


I wish I could use my minimal violin, singing, and whistling skills as proficiently as this Northwestern University grad (violin performance, 1996). Isn't it amazing how he turned the nerdiness of being a music major into fame and fantastic creativeness?

Andrew Bird, everyone.