All posts filed in Things We Found

Where we tell you about things we found that make life a little brighter.

The World is Just Awesome

by Edward Atkinson on April 26, 2008

This is the Discovery Channel’s new commercial. It makes me smile, and it also made me hit Replay a couple of times.

On trust: publish your ideas now and don’t stop

by Edward Atkinson on April 16, 2008

The best time to look for a job next year is right now. The best time to plan for a sale in three years is right now. The mistake so many marketers make is that they conjoin the urgency of making another sale with the timing to earn the right to make that sale. In […]

Slam Poetry

by Lindsey Anderson on April 10, 2008

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I belong to a poetry community on LiveJournal, and this video was posted there a while ago. I had never heard of slam poetry, had no idea what it was, but have since then sought out opportunities to see it. This guy is supposed to be pretty awesome, and I know there […]

Edward the Rein-octo-con-monarch butterfly

by Edward Atkinson on April 3, 2008

This rocks. Build Your Wild Self is a website promoting New York Zoos.

I’ve never enjoyed wasting time on the web so much before!

“Truth is not a solid”

by Edward Atkinson on March 17, 2008

That thought hit me yesterday, and I don’t know why. I was just walking, enjoying the gorgeous Georgian weather, and paying attention to little. And it flashed into my head: “Truth is not a solid.”
Interesting.
We say that there are pillars of truth, principles of truth, constants of truth. And (excuse the wording) […]

The Online Journal

by Lindsey Anderson on March 9, 2008

Maybe you’ve been thinking about getting an online journal, but have hesitated to do so since it would be … so unlike a journal.
Traditionally, journals have been classified as “private”. So why would you get one online? Online = everyone in the world knows, so it’s really a huge contradiction, right? Right! You can work […]

Unleashing The Self

by Jacqueline on March 8, 2008

I just took a pair of scissors and cut out a new favorite quotation from a paperback book I finished reading for class. I liked the typography of the paperback, rather than just my own handwriting on a piece of drab college-ruled notebook paper.
The little cut-out taped to my wall looks as if I used […]

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