http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2008/02/05/special-because-it-is/ Interestingness, curated – picking culture's collective brain for innovation, inspiration & brilliant ideas Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2008/02/05/special-because-it-is/comment-page-1/#comment-7695 The 8 Best Ideas of 2008 | Brain Pickings Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:01:58 +0000 http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2008/02/05/special-because-it-is/#comment-7695 [...] featured it again and again. And, yep, we’re doing it yet again. Because will.i.am’s deeply moving, [...] [...] featured it again and again. And, yep, we’re doing it yet again. Because will.i.am’s deeply moving, [...]

]]> http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2008/02/05/special-because-it-is/comment-page-1/#comment-2015 Best of 2008 Election Season Innovation | Brain Pickings Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:21:01 +0000 http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2008/02/05/special-because-it-is/#comment-2015 [...] After Barack Obama’s New Hampshire primary speech in January, artist will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas got overwhelmed with the desire to prevent the “unfair, backwards, upside down, unbalanced, untruthful, corrupt” process of the last election. So he called up a massive lineup of celebrities to produce a revolutionary music video based on Obama’s speech. (We first covered it here.) [...] [...] After Barack Obama’s New Hampshire primary speech in January, artist will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas got overwhelmed with the desire to prevent the “unfair, backwards, upside down, unbalanced, untruthful, corrupt” process of the last election. So he called up a massive lineup of celebrities to produce a revolutionary music video based on Obama’s speech. (We first covered it here.) [...]

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