On October 3rd 2009, Berlin was the stage for a Massive and weird puppet show called The Berlin Reunion to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. The performance was done by France’s Royal de Luxe street theatre company. Pretty incredible the way ther are able to make them move and how believable it looks even with the puppeteers climbing all over them.

Check out some stunning photos on The Big Picture.

-M

• Wired News – AP News

  Interesting article on the Bush admin’s efforts to prevent regulation of CO2 under the EPA.

  tags: linkdump

  • WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Dick Cheney’s office pushed for major deletions in congressional testimony on the public health consequences of climate change, fearing the presentation by a leading health official might make it harder to avoid regulating greenhouse gases, a former EPA officials maintains.
  • When six pages were cut from testimony on climate change and public health by the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last October, the White House insisted the changes were made because of reservations raised by White House advisers about the accuracy of the science.
  • The letter by Burnett for the first time suggests that Cheney’s office was deeply involved in downplaying the impacts of climate change as related to public health and welfare, Senate investigators believe.
  • The EPA currently is examining whether carbon dioxide, a leading greenhouse gas, poses a danger to public health and welfare. The Supreme Court has said if it does, it must be regulated under the Clean Air Act.
  • The White House deleted six of the original 14 pages of Gerberding’s testimony, including a list of likely public health impacts of global warming.
  • But he said he refused to press CDC on the deletions because he believed the CDC’s draft testimony was “fundamentally accurate.”

• Facebook | Drop.io, Simple Private Sharing

  This is a pretty good facebook marketing page. It’s more of a basecamp for content and user comments and interaction. But what is cool is that they let users connect in the format they are familiar with or already on. no new logins, no proprietary forums templates etc.

  tags: socialmedia, linkdump

• :: RLife Magazine :: – Annotated

  tags: geocacheing, linkdump

  • Here’s an article I wrote on Geocacheing with some cool people I met from Reno. More photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamindisposed/sets/72157603206820694/ – post by mehwolfy

• Sundance Institute – Global Shorts

  titoff on this one came from David Bobzien via twitter. I think it’s unspeakably awesome…

  tags: reno, linkdump, music, video

Disp.pos.al: February 23rd through February 24th:

• Matchstick Productions – Some cool videos by Ski movie giant Matchstick Productions on a cool new video player called MobileRider. Checkit.
• Republic of Molossia – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – EVEN MICRO WAR IS STILL WAR: On 22 May 2006, Molossia went to “war” with a nearby micronation, Mustachistan. After a brief period of conflict the Molossians emerged victorious.
• calvert creative – I haven’t read this, but it sounds annying. “But Twitter for Business? How Twitter can Move Your Business?”
• Flickr Adds NoFollow to Photo Description Links – Flickr today took away a major source of link juice for the social media marketers and search engine optimization link builders who were using its description area for link building via installing a NoFollow attribute on outbound links which Flickr member

Disp.pos.al: February 1st through February 20th:

• Blogging gets corporate with the Blog Council | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com – It?s hard to miss impact of blogging, twittering and other new forms of communication. ?We have to speak for a corporation, but never sound corporate,? and to learn ?how to do it live, real-time, in the public eye,? the Web site states.
• The Best Tool for Uploading Your Video to Multiple Video Sites « Will Video for Food – Here’s a good one. Getting a good return on your viral video investment is a challenge when you have to upload it to half a dozen different sites. This seems to work pretty well. Can’t wait untill they get linked with Viddler…
• i hope?.. « The truth is cliche – I hope this gets on a graphic design blog
• Metroblogging.com – Think Global. Blog Local. – Metroblogging ® is the world’s largest network of city focused blogs, with over 700 bloggers contributing to more than 50 cities…
• The Cleanest Line: What’s Happening on Your Land – Localcrew posted an essay of mine on The Cleanest Line. How cool is that?

Disp.pos.al: January 22nd through January 30th:

• Seth’s Blog: Tribe Management – This is a pretty good description of what I’m trying to do… “People form tribes with or without us. The challenge is to work for the tribe and make it something even better.”
• MessageDance : iai – iai – Not what this is, but I found it on twitter.
• The new problem of ‘photonapped’ images online | csmonitor.com – Article on fair use of social network content. “…consumers choose to buy or not buy based on how real they perceive an offering to be. Business today, therefore, is all about being real. Original. Genuine. Sincere. Authentic.”
• Twitter / Hwy40 – Interesting twitter profile usage. Updates and musings around a public works project. I’m collecting a list of interesting twitter profiles.

Disp.pos.al: December 30th through January 9th:

• 2 Simple Steps to Finding Your Website’s Voice – My background is in creative writing where voice is most important to getting your ideas across, and obtaining and retaining attention. Writers face the same challenge: Tired Feet Synrome. I pick up a book and if it can’t grab me before I’m tired of stand
• bobzien.com » Blog Archive » From now on, information is always ?Miscellaneous? – David posted a video[clever video] about how information is so amorphous and rapidly evolving that traditional ways to classify and recall it are problematic. But the channel is the power these days. Like the way this post was made, and his…
• News « Cycling Carson City – Scott Schrantz from Around Carson has launched two new websites, the Western Nevada Historic Photo Collection, and Carsonpedia. The story behind these two new blogs can be read HERE.
• Mahalo Daily » Blog Archive » MD026 – Flock – I’m really liking Flock. The 1.0 is quite functional. There are some shortcomings; the firefox plugins I lean on like my liver aren’t available. Most notable, del.icio.us toolbar. Check it out. There’s a good feed reader, though i’m having trouble importi

Disp.pos.al: December 19th through December 27th:

• Facebook | Mike Henderson – Check it out: My Facebook page! I’m so happy I can barely contain myself.
• Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007 » techipedia | tamar weinberg – wow. A good list of social internet marketing posts of 2007. Going to need more than the time it takes me to drink my coffee to read all this…
• Social Annotation: Seamless Integration of Social Bookmarking, Web Highlighter, Sticky-Note & Clipping – A cool social bookmarking tool with annotation and slideshows…
• Reno Bike Project » Huffy Cross: A Progress Indicator – The Reno Bike Project is now roughly one year old. We started in Late October of ?06, so give or take a couple of months. We have done a lot in that relatively small amount of time.
• Global Distribution of Twitter Users – Am I the only one who sees a giant untapped market directly below Chile?

Dis.pos.al: December 18th:

• Who Comments on Blogs, and Why? – Freakonomics – Opinion – New York Times Blog – When your blog has as few comments as this one you cherish grasping @ straws… “On this blog, a post that garners 40 or 50 comments is considered quite a bit, even though there are many thousands of readers.”
• Hugg 2.0 – Digg comes to conservation. Like Digg for Greenies…
• RTC Smart Trips – Welcome to the RTC RIDESHARE program, a free, web-based service that uses advanced technology to make carpool matching easy, fast, convenient, and accurate. Enter your traveling preferences and receive the best potential carpool matches back in a matter..
• MySpace.com – Check out my myspace page! I have SOOOOO many friend invite I feel so incredibly wanted…
• Embedded Javascript RSS Translator – trying to find a way to post twitter replies to a single static blog post rather than the side bar…

Disp.pos.al: December 7th through December 11th:

• Horse Power – Twelve Horses? Blog » Writing Good Blog Posts – One of the most difficult aspects of blogging for business is continuously crafting posts that are relevant and valuable to readers. Providing good content that upholds the integrity of a brand is challenging; however, this could be the distinguishing fac
• Snow Days! « Weethump – The tension had been building for sometime. Speculations and rumors were running rampant. Folks were threatening to move elsewhere, seek out other mountains that were covered in the white stuff that was conspicuously absent from our own. And then we al
• RTC Bicycle Advisory Committee – I talked the RTC into starting up a Bicycle Advisory Committee. We are working on the Transportation Plan. This would be for non-recreational (ie city street) bicycle planning. Please get the word out, people can email me and I will send them the applicat
• 7 Ways Marketers Can Use Twitter | Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog – An article about using twitter commercially. Notice that most of the examples have >200 followers and the biggest is only 5,000. That’s ok, but still not a lot and there’s no way to monitor the full buzz around it. Twitter needs Google Analitiys…
• Wolfy’s – This might be a fun way to embed some fun content into the blog…