Kirstin Butler Videos

We're digesting stories about high return on investment. Special credit for anyone who gets the Seinfeld reference in today's webisode! Paranormal box office returns | 10 Tactics for Turning Information into Action | 2 Legit to Quit | Twin bomb blasts in Baghdad | The portable NASDAQ | The Book of Odds | Indigestion: stupid Halloween costumes To view the stories featured in this digest visit www.youdigest.com.

Today s digest isn t an arcane exercise in declining verbs (I m dorky but I m not that bad!). Rather, our theme today is about the tension between the parts of the world speeding headlong into the future and the parts for all intents and purposes still living in the past. I also suggest a few small gestures at easing that future-past tension, because I think it s both morally and practically imperative that we do.Jetpacks! | Twitter me this | The Chalkboard Times | Why I won t go to Kentucky | $2 ticket tax | Obama s endless smile | A Little Good

Navigating life requires finding your way around increasingly sophisticated interfaces. Whether bad or benign, they govern how we interact with each other and with the objects that define our day-to-day experiences. Interface with me as I digest recent stories about the past, present, future (and even the paleofuture) of interfacing as we know it.Happy Birthday, telescope | Meet you in Second Life | Sudan policy reboot | Googling gives way to real-time search | Look Ma, no hands! | Paleofuture

Today s digest is an antidote to my last webisode, about humanity s obsession with wondering What If? When you live without regret, you re never left with that nagging sense of what might have happened, in an alternate reality, if only you d Entertain these examples of regret-free action with me!Missed Connections 2.0 | Missed Connections 1.0 | 350.org | NaNoWriMo | Tsunami drill | Everything Matters |Fail Harder