Brain Fuel Part 5

As we wind down towards Christmas and start thinking about a New Year, it's a good time to pay attention to some fresh influences and brain fuel.  Or in other words, as the jugs of ale begin to flow and no one can think straight, let me offer a few morsels to get your addled grey matter moving.  Here's Phillipe Starck in a brilliant talk at TED.  It's worth it just to hear him deliver this line: "No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate."  Secondly, I really enjoyed listening to John 'Search' Battelle return to Berkeley to talk to some students about the Web 1.0/2.0 story (scroll down to Dec 3) as well as the births of Wired, Boing-Boing and the ad banner.  Next, and it might help to have a jug or two handy for this one, take a look at this essay about the economist Joseph Schumpeter whose ideas about capitalism being driven by a process of Creative Destruction fit so easily into the era of the Fanning Effect - via Memex 1.1.  And, finally, here's a video of a baby laughing at Wii golf.  Enjoy.