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Leading Media Analysts Launch New Institute for the Connected Society
Among the board of advisors: Brian Reich, Senior Strategic Consultant, Mindshare Interactive Campaigns
The newly launched Institute for the Connected Society convenes thought leaders across disciplines to understand, apply and experiment with technology-enabled media to create better-informed global citizens. More information available at http://www.ifocos.org.

via cheekyattitude, an awesome music video on treadmills that totally just made my day.
OK Go – Here It Goes Again
And she’s right, its hard to not want to watch it again…

If you need a little distraction from the work day, check out this great set of Sesame Street videos! I of course had to watch Mahna Mahna first off, and will have to save the rest for broadband at home… (via Lady Crumpet

via mocoloco: comfy reading chair + built-in bookcase = really cool! (especially since using every inch of space for bookcase space is a good thing!)

Their other bookcases are cool too…

Seth Kahan, one of our favorite storytellers, has a new interview posted with Lisa. In his email to one of the storytelling in business mailing lists announcing the posting of the interview he writes:
I interview Lisa Kimball on the subject of “liberating structures” in
the current issue of Looking Forward.
Lisa has been designing on-line learning [...]

via Fresh Arrival, I find these things utterly mesmerizing — 12 minute collection of rube goldberg inventions from a Japanese TV show.)

via Just My Cup of Tea, check out these gorgeous spoon neclaces at Spoonfed Art.

via the Google Blog comes the announcement that Google News Israel is now available. Not that I can read a word of it (I still desperately need the vowels added like a preschooler) but its cool to see it there.
And now I know how to spell Google in Hebrew — gimmel-vav-gimmel-lamed (i think)

I loved this review of Alan’s Hay site over at dalihouse
I thought for sure I’d found another excellent candidate for a “Weird Internet Sites” post when I stumbled across Hay in Art – “a collection of great works of hay” – while stalking Turner, but this three-year-old cyber-gallery by Alan Ritch of Santa Cruz, California, [...]

I saw this on Rocketboom this morning and had to share. It’s Narnia Rap Battle with a West Coast Response to SNL’s Narnia Rap