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From Pangea Day, May 10, 2008:
Pangea Day was a celebration of the power of film. It featured films that were funny, sad, gorgeous, stark – and powerful. Voices that had never been heard before. Things many had never seen. Scenes from worlds few had visited. A cross-section of our amazing, complicated, noisy, beautiful world.
Besides four [...]

It’s not everyone’s job to know the complexities of the world’s creations. In fact I would say that someone trained in a specific field finds that field more complex than someone untrained. That is the point of abstraction though isn’t it?
The average person probably doesn’t care what goes on under the hood of [...]

Bill Gates delivered a very moving speech to Harvard’s graduation class last June, but I only got wind of it this weekend (thanks Paul Graham!).
For readability I split the speech into fives parts (based on the fact that the videos were also split that way). Take your pick on whether you want to read [...]