这个不到二分钟的电视广告浓缩了一个女人的一生：襁褓、学步、上学、生日、恋爱、结婚、怀孕、教子、娱孙，直到走向灿烂的晚霞⋯⋯

在母亲节即将到来之际，特发此贴送给天下所有伟大的母亲和将要做母亲的女人们～

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Gary Flake from Microsoft research delivered a fascinating demo of ‘Microsoft Pivot’, an experimental technology which focuses on browsing collections of content/pages, rather than individual pieces of content. The concept of viewing, filtering and pivoting collections of web pages based on various attributes pulled from the content represents an exciting possible future state for web browsing.

Whilst Microsoft Pivot is available for download, the application is currently limited to a predefined set of data which have been added for demo purposes. And of course, Windows only...

This is a relatively short TED demo (6 minutes)

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by 柴静





《分家在十月》是他做的，很多人都看过。
在2000年的年会上，看了这个片子之后，我来了评论部。
刚 到就赶上评论部的主持人合影。
在《焦点访谈》的演播室里，前排是敬大姐，白岩松，水均益…还有他。
我是刚来的小姑娘，自然而然站在后面。
他 转头看到我。
轻轻扶了一下我的胳膊，把我带到第一排中心他的位置。
那个时候，他还不知道我的名字。
他也不知道，后来每一年评论部 的年会，看他的主持都是我的大节目，看他在台上手挥目送，开领导的玩笑，戏噱锋头人物，逗逗女同事，但让大 家永远在最真挚的东西面前掉下眼泪。
台下众人呼喝，叫彩，吹口哨。
大家都爱他。
后来常常在食堂遇见他，远远看着，面色不太好，我 们几个都为他担忧。
有次去部里开会，他晚来，众人面前，自自然然地说“我的抑郁症…”
我呆住，只顾看他。
很久后，发短信，去看看 他。
他那时正寄望于童年幻梦，一大屋子，都是老电影的剧照，他自己穿了各种各样的旧年代的衣服，扮戏中人。
我们坐谈数小时。他说得病的前 后经过。
他说的淡定，我听得揪心。
再见他，是某个下午。
坐在电脑前头的时候，突然办公室门开了，他走进来。
“咦？”我很 惊喜。“你找谁？”
“找你。”他坐下了。在我对面。
然后我们聊天，我坐他对面。杜小静过来说“荷，真象调查的采访”
真的，这不似 普通办公室里的谈话。也不是普通的聊天闲谈。
他一句寒暄没有，那么认真，谈的是直见性命的事。
他谈的问题我当然不陌生——社会的良知的失 去。缺少希望，缺少坚守的人，让人想要放弃…
这些话，很多人在摄像机的红灯面前说，很多人在文章里说，很多人在喝酒后说。
但是他只是在一 个平凡的下午，坐在一个并不熟络的同事面前谈这些。
他谈起这些的时候，并不仅仅是在表达，就好象，就好象这些东西都是真的，就象是石头一样，死沉 地压着他。逼着他。
我隐隐地有些不安。
我只能对他说他不能放弃，因为我们需要他。
并不是因为他有名，或是幽默，而是他代表着我心 中评论部的“独立精神和自由思想”。
还有他身上的真诚，和绝不伪饰，有了这个，他才有勇气和智慧嘲弄那些可笑而巨大的东西。
大姐找我问号 码，他立刻起身走了。
临走的时候他拉开门又回身说了声“谢谢”
我一时不知说什么好，只觉得有一点心酸。
今年年会，他仍在台上。
只 是没有象《分家在十月》那样的片子了。
“评论部，现在也得了抑郁症么？”他站在台上说。
底下悄然无声。
这一场年会，他亲自张罗， 请了赵本山，郭德纲…一个部里的小小年会，不知他花了多少功夫。
但是陆陆续续，台下的人有些走了，或是打着手机出去了。
最后一个节目，他 请来罗大佑。
罗大佑一直坐在场下，喝了两瓶酒，一直到11点多上场。
大佑也不登台，踩支凳子抱住吉它。一束光。
对着话筒说“小 崔，不怕，我也抑郁过，不是我们有病，是这个时代有病”
他们拥抱。
我和大群人离开座位，围坐在他身后侧的地上。
小崔向我招招手让 我去他身边坐----那里正对罗大佑坐着，看着他晶光闪烁的双眼。
我怕挡着大家，脚手着地地爬过去，与他并肩坐。
大佑说“唱什么？”
“光 阴的故事”四百多条汉子齐声喊。
大佑轻捻弦索，琴声清洌。
我们高唱“流水他带走光阴的故事改变了我们，就在那多愁善感而初次流泪的青 春…”
我看到对面坐的小宏眼里的泪水。
后来他说“知道吗？不是因为歌声，是因为我看到小崔热泪盈眶”

今年，是他到评论部的十年。
我听过他提起过一个梦。
谁都知道他睡不好，更不要说深度的睡眠。
但 只有一次。
他说“我做过一个梦，梦到象白洋淀一样的地方，和朋友们在船上，能听见船桨划过水波的声音，还有水鸟从耳边掠过”
然后他醒来， 发现自己睡了三分钟。
他是一个在这个时代里，在这样的夜里，一直醒着的人。
我只希望他能拥有那个只有水波和飞鸟的，宁静的内心世界

（写完了，想起数年前曾写过方兴东的一篇稿子的题目，借用在这里）

原帖：http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_48b0d37b010002hl.html

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Oritinal version of "Charlie Bit Me"


Remixed version of "Charlie Bit Me"

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Hi,I'm Steph. And I'm Greg.We are the Google Wave Team. You know us. Weare the people who made an 80 minutes video to tell you about ourproduct.Here is our time to tell you what wave is in only 10minutes.Don't be mad if we try to smooth a lot in. Wave can do a lot of things.

Wave was built in Sydney,Australia. Lars and Jens started theproject. They helped create google maps. This is what computers lookedlike when email was invented more than 40 years ago. Technology hasadvanced pretty fast since then. We've took inspiration from all theseinnovations and try to imagine what email will look like if it weren'tinvented today. I'll pop out wave. Here is how wave is different fromemail. When you send an email everyone gets a copy of the message. Awave is a hosted conversation. There is one copy and anyone cancontribute to it. This model allows you to do many types ofcommunication and collaboration in one tool.

Let's see how I plan a barbeque with my friends. I'll create a newwave. And I'll add Greg as a participant. Greg opens the wave. Greg canreply anywhere in the wave. When I have the wave open I can see whatGreg types as he types it. I'll add Anna to the wave. She can seeeverything we see，because she is a host of the conversation. Anyone onthe wave can edit any part of the wave.
You can see Greg and Anna editing right now. If I close the waveand then keep editing it, their changes will be highlighted when I comeback.

Let's see how I invite my friends into the barbeque.I'll create anew wave. I want to know if they can attend so I'm going to add "yes nomaybe gadget" to this wave. Gadgets are ways to present and collectinformation other than text. Now I'll add a group of friends into thewave, the wavers. Everyone in the group can see the wave when they areonline and respond.
You can see respond is coming in now.

Why does Don always say no to my barbeques?

If I want to show the people where the barbeque is I can highlightthe address and add a map. As I zoom in you can see Greg's map changestoo.Any developers can build these gadgets.

People always want to drag and drop files directly from theirdesktop into our web applications. With wave you can. Watch as stephniecreates a new wave and then drags and drops a bunch of photos fromiPhoto directly into the wave . Some mails will appear on my machine as soon as they start uploading on hers. I can then drag and dropphotos from my machine directly into the wave as well.

You can see at the bottom of the screen there is an images menu.This menu allows you to operate on all of those images in the wave notjust the images you added. This is an easy and convenient way to makeit collaborate photo album using wave.Now we have a wave with a lot of images in it. We want to share with our friends. Drag our friend"bloggy" onto the wave. This will publish the wave on steph's blog. I'm betting it's a easy way to put waves directly into any website much thesame way you can do with maps today.Watch as I go to steph's blog. You can see on steph's blog that we can see the whole wave not just theimages. This includes all of the UI. Watch as I leave a comment.Everything that I've typed on the blog immediately appears in stephe'swave client. Steph can respond in her wave client and her typing immediately appears on the blog. Since I contribute to the blog thewave will also show in my wave client and we can continue the conversation from there. In beta waves, it's good for developersbecause it allows them to drop a rich collaborative UI into websitewith very little code. It's great for users because it allows them tohave a consistent UI as well as every conversation they care about allin one place.

The combination of collabrative editing and inline discussion makes wave a powerful platform for document creation. i'll show youthat by opening a designed doc we worked on our team. I'll make it alittle more room. And you can see this has rich fonts. It has diagramsand it has inline discussion. The best way to view wave when it'spicked up a certain amount of structure using a feature rebuilt called playback. Playback tells you how the wave builds up. Steven,ourtrusted server guy, wrote a draft. He added a bunch of people. Lars,the manager, said it's a good start but needs more. Steve added more. Imade some edits and so on. I can pick up the slider and move to any part of the wave. Playback is a powerful way to investigate and manipulate the history of a wave.

Robot are pieces of softwares that can be added to the wave like aparticipant.And in fact it can act like a participant. They can do anything a person can do on a wave. They can watch what the type is going on. They can add other participants to the waves and in fact itcan even write into the wave.

Let me show you another extension to wave that lets you interfaceto different communications systems. I'll start a new wave. and i'lladd my friend "tweety the twitbot". As you can see tweety puts in aform and I'm going to sigh in with my twitter username and password.Unfornately it's twepheny. When I submit that form the robot notices itand goes and uses twitter's API to get updates from the people Ifollow.

I can also put up my own update. Tweety notices that and uses thetwitter APIs to update my twitter account. You can also use tweety to search over the public timeline of twitter. Imagine there is a phrase Icare a lot about like google wave. I can enter it here and tweety willuse the API to pull in tweets with that word in them. This way you canuse tweety to be an alert and alarm for the phrase you care about. I can actually leave this wave in my account and anytime there is a newmatch this wave will become active for me. I can open it and see the new content. Robot can be used to interface to other systems. IN thiscase with twitter but it could be anything with an API.
Imagine steph and our and i amfriends. I only speak french. She only speaks English. But we want to communicate in real time. Rosy is a robot that interfaces into google's translation engine and allows us to translate everything in a wave inreal time if we'd like to.

I'm set up for a french. steph set up for an English. I'll add rosy to the wave and then say hi to her.
Bonjour. steph. As you can see it comes up for steph in english. when steph types it comes up for me in french.
Je voudra visit paris.Soyou see that steph and I can communicate with each other in real timeeven though we don't speak the language using robots wave and a bodyRosy.

Oh God. Ten minutes goes by fast. it was like forever.

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By the way, if you are interested in Google Wave while haven't got any invitation yet, you can leave a comment here with your email address. I got 16 invitations left.

Let's spread the wave together ^^

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Never have the words, "One more thing," meant so much to so many Apple Fans and No one announces a product like Apple's Steve Jobs. Here's one video made by MacLIfe.com including introducing products from the original iMac up to the latest iPod nano with video. Enjoy!

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This is an inspiring DV made by a group Tsinghua Architecture-major graduates, drawing an analogy between A4 papers and university life. After watching, you may realize something and become more open-minded. Just let the little stuff that trembled your heart go.  Keep going, never give up.

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J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association.

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.

There are much more great speeches and commencements address on Harvard Magazine on Vimeo

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I watched the parade in Tiananmen Square on 1st Oct, however, I didn't appreciate a lot of the efforts made by CCTV. Personally speaking, the switching and the capture are not as professional as it should be for a national TV station.

Fortunately, I found a video of the parade uploaded by Dan Chung on Vimeo. He used a less than 4 mins-long awesome video, leaving us an impressive vivid scenario of this tremendous celebration.

China's 60th Anniversary national day - timelapse and slow motion - 7D and 5DmkII from Dan Chung on Vimeo.

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I recently registered a Yahoo MEME account, which is quite similar to my twitter. The main difference between these two is I share more thoughts on Twitter while MEME seems to be a place for me to have fun with pictures and videos. The elegant design and innovative interaction on MEME are facinating.

Here are two cool stuff I found on MEME today:

The first one is a videoclip on Vimeo called Abstract War:

The other is an innovative ads on magzine:

If you think these stuff are cool enough for you to register a new Micro-blog, then don't forget to follow me on MEME.

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“我们80后的，基本什么好事都没赶上。上小学的时候，大学不要钱；上大学了，小学又不要钱了。没能工作的时候，工作是分配的； 该工作了，费死了劲才能找个饿不死的活儿。不能挣钱的时候，房子是分的；能挣钱的时候，拼命攒一年都不够买个卫生间。就这媒体还老说我们是垮掉的一代，怎么着都会被冠个负面的大帽子。在公司干了两年，上不着村下不着店，夹在中间两边不得好。” 此帖一出不到一周时间，点击人气即刻飙升至2万人，并在各大BBS竞相转载，80后如何适应职场，成为众多网民热议的话题。

搜狐娱乐频道主持人“大鹏”主演的系列3分钟职场网络剧《司马TA》由此应运而生了。

 “司马他”一词来源于英语的Smart，Smart是指企业制定团队的工作目标和员工的绩效目标的原则。S-Specific(具体的)、M- Measurable(可衡量)、A-Achievable(可完成)、R-Realistic(现实的)、T-Timebond(时间段)，“司马他”一族坚信，职场之路只有从智慧出发，坚守Smart原则才能大获全胜。

职场“司马他”一族的特征是：80后白领，受过高等教育，睿智、时尚、内敛等。其具备的核心素质为：智在职场，我本聪明。这一法则强调行走职场要基于现实，未雨绸缪，在短时间内达成具体的目标。

“司马他”一族的原则是：要巧妙制定策略，更有效地实现目标，还要避免无谓的损失。对他们来说，行事以勇，不如成事以智；胸怀以直，尚要处世以曲。“work hard”不如“work smart”，职场游戏规则是要避免两败俱伤。


以下是我摘录的“司马他”语录

○西行路上，无论你是悟空还是八戒，都只是团队里的一个螺丝钉。

○自省和换位思考，是职场交际的秘诀。

○忍耐是人生的必修课。

○你可以不上学，你可以不上网，你可以不上当；你就是不能不上班。



即将奔赴职场的我，也要做个“司马他”！

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I recently found that the computer animation techniques are indeed fascinating. Here are several cool face-morphing videos on YouTube.

First one, let's morph from Angelina Jolie into Brad Pitt



then, let's have a look at the women in Art



Not satisfied? then how about the women in films?



So cool, right?!

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创世西装的创始人李桂莲曾说“每个客户都是我们服装的活广告。如果一位男士穿上我们的西服很得体，我就是送，也一定让他穿上；而有些不合适我们服装风格的男士， 哪怕他再怎么想买我们的衣服，我也要想方设法劝他脱下来。”

舍不得孩子套不着狼！李桂莲送的不是别人，是210万美金才能共席一顿午餐的巴菲特。这区区九套西装就让巴老欣然“代言”，金钱的价值是无法考量的。估计还是李桂莲30年的“从无到有”的创业史，抑或其代表的几百万中国民营企业家“翻身做老板”的故事打动了巴老先生吧。

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I attended the first TEDxPedition conference at Jockey Clubhouse in HK this morning. It was about sustainable development, social enterprise and social responsibility, which were quite new for me. I met bunches of people from all over the world, for instance, Harvard graduate who founded a company producing Yak products, Oxford students who are running an organization called SUCHEN which stands for Sustainable Chinese Enterprise, local entrepreneurs from Swire and others. We shared ideas and exchanged thoughts. I appreciate TED's slogan (ideas worth spreading) very much and will hopefully, attend the conference next year as well.

Here's one speech I found very fasinating and interesting on TED.com

The speech was made by Sir Ken Robinson, an internationally recognized leader in the development of innovation and Human Resources. He shared some entertaining and profoundly moving cases for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

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今年伊始在英国湖区的Keswick，我第一次肉眼见证了银河的浩渺……时隔今日，已然9个月有余，但哪一幕任历历在目：当瞳孔渐渐适应周遭的黑寂，就能目睹白色的星带划破黑夜，曾经绞绊我的人事周遭都在那一刻变得微不足道，而心境亦而开阔许多。这也许就是在英国半年来给我留下的最深刻的收获吧。

分享一幅法国摄影师Serge Brunier 和 Frédéric Tapissier的银河系360度摄影作品，一并附上其YouTube视频，如果您身处香港这样的大都市，也许每每夜晚都被光污染困扰，无法一饱银河系的真容。那么，可以点此通过现代科技感受。

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妙语连珠，字字珠玑！

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