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Bob Mankoff: Anatomy of a New Yorker cartoon
From TED : The New Yorker receives around 1,000 cartoons each week; it only publishes about 17 of them. In this hilarious, fast-paced, and insightful talk, the magazine’s longstanding cartoon editor and self-proclaimed “humor analyst” Bob Mankoff dissects the comedy within just some of the “idea drawings” featured in the magazine, explaining what works, what doesn’t, and why. Bob Mankoff is the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, as well as an accomplished cartoonist in his own right.
This is really fantastic … a must watch and listen – so much wisdom here.
Video: Yes, that’s a DLP projector in my tablet
A million engineers in India struggling to get placed in an extremely challenging market
“Somewhere between a fifth to a third of the million students graduating out of India’s engineering colleges run the risk of being unemployed. Others will take jobs well below their technical qualifications in a market where there are few jobs for India’s overflowing technical talent pool. Beset by a flood of institutes (offering a varying degree of education) and a shrinking market for their skills, India’s engineers are struggling to subsist in an extremely challenging market.”
Johnny Clegg (With Nelson Mandela) – Asimbonanga – 1999 (France)
Madiba magic
The Iraqi rugby player
The Lions manager flies to Baghdad to watch a young Iraqi play rugby, is suitably impressed and arranges for him to come over to Gauteng. Two weeks later the Lions are 18-6 down to The Blue Bulls with only 20 minutes left to play. The manager gives the young Iraqi winger the nod and on he goes. The lad is a sensation, scores 4 tries in 20 minutes and wins the game for the Lions. The fans are delighted, the players and coaches are delighted and the media love the new star. When the player comes off the pitch he phones his mum to tell her about his first day in Super 14 Rugby. “Hello mum, guess what?” he says “I played for 20 minutes today, and we were 18-6 down but I scored 4 tries and we won! Everybody loves me, the fans, the media, they all love me!” “Wonderful,” says his mum, “Let me tell you about my day. Your father got shot in the street and robbed; your sister and I were ambushed, gang raped and beaten; your brother has joined a gang of looters and all while you were having such a great time playing rugby” The young lad is very upset. “What can I say mum, but I am so sorry.” “Sorry?! Sorry?!’ shrieks his mum, “It’s your fault we moved to Jo’Burg in the first Place.”
FOOD ART
Especially for the cook that lives in all of you.
All the scenes have been created entirely with food !
Experience Slows You Down
“My theory is this: when you know everything about an industry, you don’t know whats good for it. The only thing you know is the rules and confinements that have been set up by the people within that industry to prevent change. That’s human nature. People don’t like change, people like change they like. So you follow the rules, and learn some more and before you know it. You are 50 years old, wears a suit and dictates the rules by yourself. You don’t change the industry you’re in, the industry changes you.”
This Is What It Takes For A Tiny Startup To Close Million-Dollar Deals With Fortune 500 Companies
Square moves from the smartphone to the browser, building its own online market
“Square isn’t merely content with processing credit cards for local businesses. It wants to handle their online transactions as well.
Square is essentially moving in the opposite direction of its main mobile payments rival PayPal, the entrenched provider of online payments for small businesses. While PayPal is horning in Square’s turf with its Here credit card reader, Square hopes to chisel off a piece of PayPal’s peer-to-peer payments with a new service called Square Cash. Now Square is going after the business of PayPal’s parent eBay with Market.”
