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Design Interesting People Politics

Union music

Zack de la Rocha and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine came together again to lend their music and inspiration to the workers’ battle for a more just world. This happened on the seventh day of the Truth Tour 2007, at the House of Blues, Chicago, IL.

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Design Interesting People

Alan Moore, Kevin O’Neil – League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Alan Moore does a BBC interview on some of his more famous comics – this one is on ‘The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’.

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Design Interesting People

Steve Jobs Interview – 2010, All Things Digital

Long, gloves off (in a respectful way) interview with Steve Jobs. Covers a lot of ground and quite interesting.

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Design Politics

“Work smarter, not harder”

From baheyeldin.com

“Work smarter, not harder” is something that sounds good, but in reality it is often a hollow sentence with no substance in it. In the corporate world, when a manager informs his team of staff cuts, while the workload is the same or more, “smarter” does not mean anything other than “do more with less”. If this “working smarter” was tangible and doable, then why was it not employed before the staff cuts? Huh?

Here is a Dilbert comic lampooning this misused non-wisdom …

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Design Science

FlyFire – MIT’s micro-copter swarming pixels in the sky

Not sure if the double rotor copters seem quite as high tech and precise as the video footage, but if it’s MIT it must be real, right? And it would/will be amazing to see.

http://senseable.mit.edu/flyfire/