I asked for a Jetson‘s flying car and I get a Flintstone‘s man- powered pushmobile instead.

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First they get you drunk, then they conquer the world!

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So correct!

With every beat of my heart…

What made America? What makes us? These two questions are at the heart of the new PBS series Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr… pbs.org

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In Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier, FRONTLINE presents an in-depth exploration of what it means to be human in a 21st-century digital world… boingboing.net

Originally aired February 2,2010,  but can be viewed online.

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Master alternate reality game designer Jane McGonigal‘s latest venture is Evoke, a project to connect young people in Africa to their counterpars in the the developed world “to empower young people all over the world, and especially in Africa, to start tackling the world’s toughest problems: poverty, hunger, sustainable energy, water security, conflict, disaster relief, health care, education, human rights… boingboing.net

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