YouTube - Inspiring Story! Free Hugs Campaign (music by sick puppies)
Sometimes, a hug is all what we need. Free hugs is a real life controversial story of Juan Mann, A man whos sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives.
In this age of social disconnectivity and lack of human contact, the effects of the Free Hugs campaign became phenomenal.
Link found on scripting.com
Slashdot | First Photos of MIT $100 Laptop
An anonymous reader noted that MITs $100 laptop was unveiled at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting. It runs a special version of the Fedora linux and it comes with native wireless lan support. You can see the photo album,
A little more background:
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003707.html
Some more recent info:
http://laptop.org/
The first working prototype of the $100 Laptop is unveiled at the Seven
Countries Task Force Meeting, 23 May 2006.
Pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pete/sets/72057594143224765/
Ticketmaster Auction Will Let Highest Bidder Set Concert Prices
But consumers — many of whom have complained for years about climbing ticket prices and Ticketmaster service charges — may be less eager for the next phase of Ticketmaster’s Internet evolution.
Late this year the company plans to begin auctioning the best seats to concerts through ticketmaster.com.
With no official price ceiling on such tickets, Ticketmaster will be able to compete with brokers and scalpers for the highest price a market will bear.
“The tickets are worth what they’re worth,” said John Pleasants, Ticketmaster’s president and chief executive. “If somebody wants to charge $50 for a ticket, but it’s actually worth $1,000 on eBay, the ticket’s worth $1,000. I think more and more, our clients — the promoters, the clients in the buildings and the bands themselves — are saying to themselves, `Maybe that money should be coming to me instead of Bob the Broker.’ “
Editor: And TicketMaster wonders why so many people hate their guts. All those trumped up fees and now they will get scalper money directly. If it gets popular, something tells me that I’ll be seeing even less concerts in the future. 
Stephen Colbert spoke tonight at the dinner and
lampooned pretty much everything he could think of and Helen Thomas. I
used the second half of his performance because it included the
Generals, Scalia, the Faux press briefing and as E&P reported:“As he walked from the podium the president and
First Lady gave Colbert quick nods, unsmiling, and left. E&P’s Joe
Strupp, in the crowd, observed that quite a few felt the material was,
perhaps, uncomfortably biting.”Video-WMP (low res) Video QT (it’s a big file)
Editor: You can also find the C-SPAN rebroadcast (at least for now) of the whole thing at: