How to Behave: New Rules for Highly Evolved Humans

Wired Magazine

Wired Magazine’s collection of rules on the behaviour of highly evolved humans includes topics such as, “Don’t Google-Stalk Before a First Date” (so true), “If You Can’t Buy It Online, Feel Free to BitTorrent” (er, no comment), “Friend Your Boss But Not Your Boss’s Boss” (sorry Paul)… etc

Read more here.

Posted by Kristina Boey

World Digital Library

Increasing the curuisity of the world we live in.

A repository of content from different countries and cultures around the world. The main objective of the site is to promote internal and intercultural understand, and also to increase the curiosity of the world we live in about the cultural achievements in humanity.

You can browse by place, time, type of time or the contributing institution through the visual map interface. Interactive elements like the  geographical clusters  and timeline makes it a lot more interesting. Last check yielded 3 items for Singapore - photographs of a coffee plantation, rattan and wealthy Malays - interestingly weird.

Check it out here » World Digital Library.

Posted by Kristina Boey