The folks at MentalFloss share this:

In this episode of Computer Chronicles, the team goes in-depth on “The Internet,” a trendy topic in 1995. It starts with host Stewart Cheifet in a new-fangled “Internet Cafe,” complete with bulky CRT display and tiny espresso cup — and its datedness just gets more intense from there. Need to know the best FTP site to download the Mosaic Web browser? John Markoff of the NYT will tell you (he’ll also tell you how he gets email from Steve Jobs, and show you how he makes email filters in Eudora). Want to know the inside story of how the geek band Severe Tire Damage streamed (sorry, multicast over the Internet MBone) a concert online? It’s all here. Seriously, you guys, this made me guffaw so many times — not because it’s dumb, but because I lived all this stuff and it’s shocking to me just how amazing it all was and how extraordinarily dated it now seems. Enjoy:

Go to the source of this quote: What the Internet Looked Like in 1995 | Mental Floss

Arianna Huffington writes:

In the 1840s, Benjamin Disraeli, still a long way from being prime minister, wanted to wake people up to the plight of the British working class — and move them to act. The alarm he sounded wasn’t delivered in a speech, a pamphlet, or an article — but in a novel, Sybil, published in 1845. It had the desired effect — raising awareness, provoking outrage, and leading to the passage of several fundamental social reforms.

Disraeli knew that one of the most effective ways to touch people is through narrative — putting flesh and blood on raw facts and data. Ever since I read Sybil when I was at Cambridge, I’ve loved thinkers and writers and gadflies who use storytelling to reach people and get us to act. Of course, since Disraeli’s time, other powerful ways of telling those stories have emerged — including movies.

And so it was that I found myself moderating a panel discussion last week with the director and two cast members (Frank Grillo and Marc Jacobs — yes, that Marc Jacobs!) of a movie that uses storytelling to wake us up to one of the biggest problems of our modern age: the effect that being “connected” to technology 24/7 is having on our ability to connect with our lives, ourselves and the people we love.

Continue reading “Disconnect: A New Movie Sounds the Alarm About Our Hyper-Connected Lives” →

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Ron Nikkel shares this excellent quote in the Huffington Post today:

When we don’t forgive, we drink the poison ourselves and then wait for the other person to die. And we take the knife that has hurt us and we stab ourselves with it again… But when we forgive, We pour out the poison of the enemy and of the devil and we don’t let the poison stay in us and we don’t let the poison make us into poisonous snakes! So that we don’t become like the person we despised and who persecuted and tortured us. (Iranian prisoner, Pastor Saeed Abedni in The Christian Post 22 March 2013)

Go to the source of this quote: Ron Nikkel: Do You Need to Forgive?

Follow the link for the rest of his article or stop here and ponder the wisdom of this quote. Your choice…

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We all know that now is a great time to some spring cleaning: re-evaluate what we need and what we’re ready to let go of. But what about spring-cleaning our spirits? With each new season…

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You are so right, Kristin; it’s all about the sacred pause and moving from fight or flight to tend and befriend…