Two Tasty Web Tidbits

We happened across two web pages that we’d recommend to those who can carve out thirty minutes of their day.

First is a photo and video narrative of Venture Capitalist and uber-blogger Guy Kawasaki’s trip to the US Naval aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (as a full grown Navy brat, this one got its hooks into me easily).

Second is a video of a presentation given by Gapminder founder Hans Rosling, who’s not just brilliant, but also the king of Swedish stand-up (at least he’s the funniest Swede we’ve ever seen on stage). Rosling uses a very cool visual platform to convey the ideas he expresses, which are about global economics and then some. His objective is to get people thinking about the world in ways that avoid bias and oversimplification. As someone who teaches Statistics to undergrads, this stuff is golden.

We came across the Rosling presentation via an intermediary link from Kawasaki’s site – networks are so cool.

URLs:

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2009/06/24-hours-at-sea-on-the-uss-nimitz.html

http://dotsub.com/view/3b345061-c5da-4604-b59c-404527f0bd68

http://www.gapminder.org/

http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2009/05/tedx-tokyo-this-friday-in-japan.html