Craftsman Music Experiment

What you are watching is built entirely from the sounds of Craftsman tools mixed and edited by Kutiman. No musical instruments were used. LINK: The Presurfer, Via: Youtube

100 Amazing Memory Hacks To Maximize Your Brain

Students, business professionals, and average Janes and Joes - just about everyone would love to have a fool-proof memory, and with these amazing memory hacks, you can.

These suggestions, tools, and tricks are sure to have you using your brain to the best of its abilities, whether you need to remember a semester's worth of Biology 101, keep finding yourself in the awkward spot of not remembering names, or anywhere in between. LINK: The Presurfer

Octopus Uses Cocount As Shelter

Scientists have discovered an octopus utilizing tools by carrying around a coconut shell to be used as shelter, which is a first amongst invertebrates. LINK: Youtube

The Opium Museum

The Opium Museum is, at the heart, about the trade in rare antiques, since opium smoking paraphernalia was outlawed. Still, there are pages and pages of the history of opium and its use in countries all over the world, with many historical photographs.

Beginning in the 18th century, opium accompanied the Chinese diaspora: first to the Chinese quarters of Asian cities, and later to the Chinatowns of the West, particularly North America, where opium smoking in the Chinese manner and with Chinese-made paraphernalia became fashionable among non-Chinese.

Once the drug was banned and its paraphernalia outlawed, these illicit items were heaped into piles and burned in public bonfires. From Shanghai to Saigon to San Francisco, the means to smoke opium were destroyed along with the drug itself. So few examples of these relics remain that most experts on Chinese art are blithely unaware of just how sumptuous and opulent this art form had become during its heyday.

For serious collectors, there is information on how to identify genuine opium tools and have them appraised. Link -Via: Metafilter, Via: Neatorama

The value of each viewer/user/customer is NOT THE SAME!

After meeting with more and more marketing agencies it has become clear to me that people don’t understand a internet user, one that uses tools to spread their passions and interests, they are VERY different then a TV watcher that takes in the content and goes to sleep! All consumers are not equal and the quicker Brands understand that and use this nugget they will be able to distance themselves from their competition. LINK