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POPSear plugs Buy ear plugs for help with sleeping, protection against swimmers ear when swimming and to block out harmful noises for musicians. We sell swimming earplugs as well as ear plugs for sleeping, tinnitus, young children, motorcyclists, flying, musicians.
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POPSFree Foreign Language Lessons A great way to learn 37 languages for free. Spanish, French, English, Mandarin, Russian and much more. You can listen to all audio lessons on your computer and mp3 player.
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POPSCampus Party 2009 Campus Party 2009 in Valencia has just started but it's there for a week at the city of arts and sciences. Can you imagine downloading the whole of Wikipedia in 30 seconds!
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POPSThe "Generation M" Manifesto More: There's a tectonic shift rocking the social, political, and economic landscape. The last two points above are what express it most concisely. I hate labels, but I'm going to employ a flawed, imperfect one: Generation "M." What do the "M"s in Generation M stand for? The first is for a movement. It's a little bit about age — but mostly about a growing number of people who are acting very differently. They are doing meaningful stuff that matters the most. Those are the second, third, and fourth "M"s… I was (kind of) kidding about seceding before. Here's what it looks like to me: every generation has a challenge, and this, I think, is ours. It's Gen M's job to foot the bill for your profligacy — and create, instead, an authentically, sustainably shared prosperity.
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POPSKODACHROME: First Great Color Film Remembered in Photos The demise of Kodachrome came just three days before a National Geographic exhibition, "Kodachrome Culture: The American Tourist in Europe", opened in the society's Washington, D.C., headquarters. The exhibit, which will run until September 7, 2009, shows Americans' burgeoning fascination with vivid color photographs of Europe.
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POPS Brain overload: can no longer think wisely "Every day, just to keep up to date, that grey lump between your ears has to shovel ever bigger piles of infotainment — tottering jumbles of global-warming updates, web gossip, refugee crises, e-mails, fashion alerts, Twitters and advertisements. Now research suggests that we may have reached an historic point in human evolution, where the digital world we have created has begun to outpace our neurons’ processing abilities"
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POPSThe New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online A worthwhile article , KK explores the newly arising power of social networks, adhocracy and the newly emergent cyberculture. Though I do not resonate with his use of the term 'socialism', a deep forray into the web event of collaboration provides a different view of the potential for a change we all hope for. Open source is definitely the way to go.
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POPSThe New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online From the article: "We underestimate the power of our tools to reshape our minds. Did we really believe we could collaboratively build and inhabit virtual worlds all day, every day, and not have it affect our perspective? The force of online socialism is growing. Its dynamic is spreading beyond electrons—perhaps into elections." Interesting thought.
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POPSNot-So-Great Expectations “Why,” he said, “would you want to do anything more than you already do?” "What a question! What a mind-bend! What a culture-clashing, anachronistic, out-of-this-world concept this had seemed: Know your limits. Acknowledge them. Deal with them. It had struck me as a revelation. The timor mortis explanation is really the only way to account for all the lowbrow concerns that have increasingly crowded out my higher thoughts as I advance in my forties. The weeds choking the garden. The hundreds of digital photos that no one has ever seen. The kid-art that hasn’t been hung. All these undone things, all these instances in which I Fail to Meet Expectations (according to the imaginary report card I update every day), derive their urgency for me from the sense that, if did meet performance standards, then I would be living my life to the fullest."
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POPSThe underground world of “neuroenhancing” drugs
But it’s not the mind-expanding sixties anymore. Every era, it seems, has its own defining drug. Neuroenhancers are perfectly suited for the anxiety of white-collar competition in a floundering economy. And they have a synergistic relationship with our multiplying digital technologies: the more gadgets we own, the more distracted we become, and the more we need help in order to focus. The experience that neuroenhancement offers is not, for the most part, about opening the doors of perception, or about breaking the bonds of the self, or about experiencing a surge of genius. It’s about squeezing out an extra few hours to finish those sales figures when you’d really rather collapse into bed; getting a B instead of a B-minus on the final exam in a lecture class where you spent half your time texting; cramming for the G.R.E.s at night, because the information-industry job you got after college turned out to be deadening. Neuroenhancers don’t offer freedom. Rather, they facilitate a pinched,
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POPSNYPL Incredible old photographs. Gorgeous!
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POPS‘Brothers in Arms’: A Song That Wrote Itself The final master, now the end title, is the piano/vocal I cut in my living room that evening, accompanied by a string arrangement we added after the fact. I hope you to get see the movie. I’m glad I did. Looking for Brothers In Arms - Single by John Ondrasik? Download iTunes and discover what makes it the world's most popular digital media player. Turn your CD collection into a digital music collection. Buy songs for 99¢ each. Download movies, TV shows, and more. http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/download/?artistName=John%20Ondrasik&thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fa1.phobos.apple.com%2Fus%2Fr1000%2F054%2FMusic%2F5b%2F6f%2F32%2Fmzi.aklrhity.100x100-75.jpg&itmsUrl=itms%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2FWebObjects%2FMZStore.woa%2Fwa%2FviewAlbum%3Fid%3D307492805%26partnerId%3D30%26siteID%3DCTiugamq7cM-pVF.9bfLcR2JmqwPI5e38w%26ign-mscache%3D1&albumName=Brothers%20In%20Arms%20-%20Single
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POPSNeuroculture There is currently amazing exhibition at FACT, Liverpool, UK. It is based on sound and sisorientation through disruption of senses, but one room is wired via an artificial neuron to many locations in the UK, from football stadia to schools, where sounds are picked up and fed through software set to mimic thalamic thresholds and into the room at FAXT where you walk between a matrix of suspended speakers and through an everchanging soundscape of analogue real time sounds filtered by digital simiulation of fire/not fire neuron. Conceptually fascinating, experientially wonderful.
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