TED: Plug into your hard-wired happiness

Srikumar Rao says we spend most of our lives learning to be unhappy, even as we strive for happiness. At Arbejdsglaede Live! 2009, he teaches us how to break free of the "I'd be happy if ..." mental model, and embrace our hard-wired happiness...

Photoshop: Out of Bounds mashup

A selection from worth1000

Vimeo: 3 Kinetic Typography shorts about Terence McKenna

Made by Olivier Ferland, these kinetic typography pieces are spot on! Great content, nice design!

Leaving for Ozzy...

I'll be wandering around Australia till the 8th of may, I have some posts programmed so you can definitely keep checking in ;)

TED: The riddle of experience vs. memory

Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy -- and our own self-awareness.

Lucid Dreaming...

Lucid Dreaming is becoming aware in your dream, basically I think that this is a practice that should be widely known and although there a lot of lucid dream pages available on the net, it never hurts to have one more. I myself have had a couple of lucid dreams, not because I practice it but I do meditate often, and when you meditate, you're more likely to have one. Ofcourse if you just want to try it out without going through weeks of meditation there are a lot of techniques that can get you there quicker.

Vimeo: 3 mindblowing 3D animation short movies

Another roundup of 3 wicked shorts, this time going for 3D animations :)