Interesting bits & pieces

Fascinating TED talks:

• Dan Ariely on our buggy moral code.
• Rory Sutherland: (Funny) life lessons from an ad man
• Ric Elias '3 things I learned while my plane crashed' .
• Ken Robinson on schools and creativity
• Philip Zimbardo on the psychology of evil.
• Dan Pink on how rewards kill creativity.
• Barry Schwarz on happiness and the paradox of choice.
• Philip K. Howard on the broken legal system.
• Sheena Iyengar on the art of choosing

Cool (&somewhat geeky) stuff:

• Catching lightning in a box (experiment #5 in this list)
• An historically amazing bargain for a 10MB HD (MB not GB!)
• How to break glass with sound (+movies)
• Dead pixel in google earth
• Floppy drive plays the Imperial March
• Non-Newtonian Fluid on a Speaker (also with corn-flour)
• How to build an acoustic-laser. (the inverse of an acoustic refrigerator)
• Useless tech
• Freaky ants' parasite

& some links that made me laugh:

• George Carlin on death
• George Carlin on religion
• George Carlin on politicians
• A postmodern vacation graph