Clipmarks - Top Clips - July 23, 2006

by pyrogyne 7-23-2006

1. Look at problems in many different ways, and find new perspectives that no one else has taken (or no one else has publicized!) 2. Visualize! 3. Produce! A distinguishing characteristic of genius is productivity. 4. Make novel combinations. Combine, and recombine, ideas, images, and thoughts into different combinations no matter how incongruent or unusual. 5. Form relationships; make connections between dissimilar subjects. 6. Think in opposites. 7. Think metaphorically. 8. Prepare yourself for chance. Whenever we attempt to do something and fail, we end up doing something else. That is the first principle of creative accident. Failure can be productive only if we do not focus on it as an unproductive result. Instead: analyze the process, its components, and how you can change them, to arrive at other results. Do not ask the question "Why have I failed?", but rather "What have I done?"

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POPS Budapest Tourism Campaign: sex on our boats!

by Geekette 7-23-2006

The tourism authority is sending around an email with an internet link leading viewers to a short cartoon film which features a young blonde woman having sex with a married man on a fishing boat on the lake.

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POPS The absurdity of the Bush administration's stand on stem cell research

by jklugman 7-23-2006

Crooks & Liars has a video of White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten getting grilled by Tim Russert on MTP over the stem cell issue. The problem is that viewing embryos as equivalent to the life of a person has just enormous disruptive practical implications (and, in my view, patently absurd on its face).

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