BMW. racing. sci-fi. innovation. design. technology. beauties.
I found this site which collects the top movies that prophecies a dystopian future. dystopia is the opposite of utopia whereby the world descends close to chaos.
http://snarkerati.com/movie-news/the-top-50-dystopian-movies-of-all-time/
some of my favourite sci-fi flicks are in the list including blade runner, minority report, the matrix, twelve monkeys, serenity, ghost in the shell, akira, gattaca, dark city etc.
According to an article in the Perth Now, most people will see this dancer moving counter-clockwise because they use more of the left side of their brain and tend to be more logical and practical. People who see the dancer moving clockwise (like me) are right brain dominant and tend to be more risk taking and imaginative.
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe
RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
“big picture” oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can “get it” (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking
From Viewzone:
Experiments show that most children rank highly creative (right brain) before entering school. Because our educational systems place a higher value on left brain skills such as mathematics, logic and language than it does on drawing or using our imagination, only ten percent of these same children will rank highly creative by age 7. By the time we are adults, high creativity remains in only 2 percent of the population.
So what kind of person are you?
The new 2008 BMW M3 is a breathtaking beast.
This site shows a bit of why it is so…
http://content.bmwusa.com/microsite/2008M3/index.html
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project got me excite about a year back when I saw Nicholas Negroponte’s video keynote address (35 minute video clip).
The project is an education project aimed at putting one laptop for each child – especially in the developing nations. The key objective is to provide children with the best education possible and access to latest information and communication no matter where they are and how unfortunate the society that they live in.
The reason this project is so exciting is the solution to achieve this: the USD100 laptop, which uses low power and is able to operate even in places where electricity is not available. As for communications, the only prerequisite is a communications node. The laptops will provide a mesh network to allow communication beyond the nodes and into the homes.
What makes me curious though, is why isn’t Malaysia on the list of countries supporting this project? Anybody can connect this to the Minister of Education?
