Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Live Video Feed

Welcome to my live video feed! Well some times anyway. If I'm not live now you can view some past videos in the player below.



I'm experimenting with the live video stuff right now so you may see some changes to this page in the future. Initially I had the player on the side bar instead of giving the player it's own page. I'm still not sure if I'll put it back on the the side bar' If you have any thoughts let me know.

Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Eggo Waffle Recall


It turns out that some Eggo Waffles were found to be contaminated with Listeria Monocytogenes.

They're recalling the following Eggo waffles:

* Kellogg's Eggo Cinnamon Toast waffles, 10-count package, UPC code 3800040440 with Best If Used Before dates beginning with: NOV22 10 EA, NOV23 10 EA and NOV24 10 EA.
* Kellogg's Eggo Toaster Swirlz Cinnamon Roll Minis eight-count package, UPC code 3800023370 with a Best If Used Before date beginning with NOV15 10 EA.

The contaminated batch was never sent to stores and they are recalling the above products as a precaution only since they were produced at the same plant.


It's kind of funny that I couldn't find anything about it on the Kellogg's Website. Well I guess it's not that funny. They certainly wouldn't want to promote such a thing.

Here is the press release from the FDA

Friday, May 29, 2009

How Schools Kill Creativity.

Here's another video. This one is by Ken Robinson about how our schools, and our society really, helps to kill our creativity rather than encourage it. Creativity is something I have been thinking about for a while now. I've finally realized that intelligence shouldn't really be measured by the amount of information we can cram into our heads, but rather our ability to create solutions to problems, or just create a song or piece of art. In fact I believe that when we constantly fill our head with information, we leave less room for truly innovative ideas.

There are some interesting ideas in this video about how even parents can stifle creativity. I paid close attetion to this since I have to young ones and have done some of the that Ken talks about here.

Anyway, this is a powerful speach that I thought some of you would enjoy.

Sunday, May 24, 2009

The Paradox of Choice.

This is a video I found by Barry Schwartz. He talks about how freedom of choice can actually be harmful rather than helpful. It can actually paralyze a person instead of setting them free.
I think this really describes a whole lot of people in the "Western" societies.

With so many choices in life, it can really be hard to make decisions.

I've studied Sociology for 3 years and I really think this is one of the huge problems in our culture.
I know it's 19 minutes long, but trust me, it's worth the watch.