This is one of the really cool videos and cool events ever. I used to play pick-up base­ball (it was really stick­ball, but who cares?! hehehe) back when I was a kid in our neigh­bor­hood, and I could totally empathize to the feel­ing a young boy feels with all the atten­tion given them, spe­cially when they’re play­ing a game they love.

Quirky, Inc. is a lot like Woot, which I have also fea­tured here sev­eral months back. The main dif­fer­ence is that while Woot is a site that sells really cool stuff (Woot stands for Want One Of Those), Quirky is a lit­tle more inter­ac­tive. The expla­na­tion is below.

Orig­i­nally from Life­Hacker, I am repost­ing this because I think this is really help­ful for us who have ipods, iphones, mp3 players.

A world that can­not jour­ney with the self, and can­not go deep, is also a world that can­not accept ambi­gu­ity and mys­tery. The promise of exper­i­men­tal sci­ence has been a black and white world—nature on the dock, inside a test tube. But as we all know by now, that promise has failed. The world is not black and white. And yet peo­ple are going back to this stance of see­ing the world as black and white. This was even more pro­nounced after the 9/11 Bomb­ing and the United States’ War Against Terrorism.

Got this from Dr. Jeff Cornwall’s Blog. I find it very appeal­ing because I am a big Amer­i­can Idol fan, spe­cially of the lat­est sea­son (Go Adam, Cris and Danny!), and I would find myself nod­ding to what Simon would say, and feel­ing blah about what Paula says. While Simon gives the worst crit­i­cism, it is his com­ments that mat­ter and it is his com­ments that really turn out to be spot on and help­ful for the con­tes­tants. Paula cheers you up, but in the end, all she does is make you feel good.