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Unpolished short posts, statuses, tweets, links, videos, and brief thoughts.
Visualization of 4,000 years of democracy in 90 seconds
Nice animation showing how different ideas of governance spread around the world. Slightly oversimplistic in parts, and lacking some details, but still, a nice way to represent it.
Here’s the history of religion too:
And the history of the Middle East:
Who owns your voice online? | Human 2.0
http://www.human20.com/who-owns-your-voice-online
A look at how our methods of communication online are mostly locked in and owned by corporations
Read MoreThe Story of Stuff: Why our entire economy is engineered to destroy the planet
Environmental pollution, planned obsolence, manipulative advertisting, toxic incineration, it’s all here. If you are in any way concerned about our impact on the environment, watch this video which explains in clear terms how and why we are killing the planet and what needs to change to guarantee a safe future.
Window on the World
One of my favourite things on my Chumby internet device, is the ChumbySpy widget, which lets me view random webcams from around the world. It makes you feel somewhat omniscient.
