Surfers In Texas!!??

Yes, they exist. There are surfers in Texas. As proofs Kenny Browns with his book Surf Texas. I'm still looking at these photo's in disbelief.

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30 Years Of Tech

And we stay with TED and with MIT. Nicholas Negroponte takes us 30 years back in tech. A 30-year history of the future.

MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte takes you on a journey through the last 30 years of tech. The consummate predictor highlights interfaces and innovations he foresaw in the 1970s and 1980s that were scoffed at then but are ubiquitous today. And he leaves you with one last (absurd? brilliant?) prediction for the coming 30 years.

Become A Now-ist

Forget predicting the future, become a now-ist if you want to innovate says Joi Ito. Interesting TED talk.

“Remember before the internet?” asks Joi Ito. “Remember when people used to try to predict the future?” In this engaging talk, the head of the MIT Media Lab skips the future predictions and instead shares a new approach to creating in the moment: building quickly and improving constantly, without waiting for permission or for proof that you have the right idea. This kind of bottom-up innovation is seen in the most fascinating, futuristic projects emerging today, and it starts, he says, with being open and alert to what’s going on around you right now. Don’t be a futurist, he suggests: be a now-ist.

Monokini 2.0 - Who Says You Need Two?

Very good initiative. Photography by Pinja Valja. You can like them on Facebook.

"Monokini 2.0 is a social art project that re-examines popular culture’s narrow view of a woman’s ideal appearance. We strive to expand what is accepted and considered beautiful by designing a swimwear collection for women who have gone through breast cancer. "

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Transgender Soccer League - Colombia

World Cup soccer is being continued in Colombia. The country's marginalized transgender community uses football as a plea for inclusion.