Wonderhood is a social discovery marketplace where people looking for novel things to do can connect with everyday people offering up their unique knowledge and resources for a small price. It’s about inventing and reinventing fun stuff to do by empowering people to share their awesome passions, ideas and access with people looking to be inspired and entertained.
Finding truly fun and interesting stuff to do is difficult. It takes time and creativity which are often in short supply when our minds are so busy with work and general life admin. So we end up defaulting to the things we know, and too often those things are corporatized encounters – like you visit the zoo but you get the sense that the animals aren’t the only ones who are trapped in some kind of prescribed destiny.
The wonderhood team thought it’d be great if there was a place you could go to easily find authentic, original and fun things to do in your city or in a city you’re visiting. And they built this idea on the assumption that the person who can teach you to cook the best palak paneer in town isn’t necessarily a chef. No, it’s Praveen Gupta the hilarious historian from Heidelberg (Australia) who has a lovely home kitchen and would get pure joy out of using it on weekends to show paying people the culinary secrets that have passed down through generations of her North Indian family.
The power of Wonderhood is the power of unlocking the dormant creative potential held in every city’s minds and resources.
“Sea surface temperatures in the Northeast Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem during 2012 were the highest recorded in 150 years, according to the latest Ecosystem Advisory issued by NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC). These high sea surface temperatures (SSTs) are the latest in a trend of above average temperature seen during the spring and summer seasons, and part of a pattern of elevated temperatures occurring in the Northwest Atlantic, but not seen elsewhere in the ocean basin over the past century.
The advisory reports on conditions in the second half of 2012.
Sea surface temperature for the Northeast Shelf Ecosystem reached a record high of 14 degrees Celsius (57.2°F) in 2012, exceeding the previous record high in 1951. Average SST has typically been lower than 12.4 C (54.3 F) over the past three decades.”
Watch Radia Perlman’s Keynote Speech at linux.conf.au 2013: it’s chocked full of charming insights regarding protocol folklore, the history of Ethernet, TRILL and comparing Standards Bodies with drunken Sports fans [as opposed to “…conceptualising them as well educated technologists carefully considering engineering trade-offs”].
“The keynote, titled “Reasoning about Networks”, intends to show that a lot of what everyone thinks they know about network protocols is actually false. Radia will demonstrate that the field is shrouded in hype and rivalry between competing teams. It is difficult to know what, if anything, is true, since any of the designs can be changed to incorporate ideas from other designs. The talk will cover topics such how to get to the heart of what might be intrinsic differences, separate out orthogonal issues rather than focusing on complete specifications, and comparing technologies without emotion. Radia will also discuss some recent technologies, and help you to separate the hype from the facts.”
MELBOURNE: MELBOURNE MEDIA LAB SPRINT CALL FOR COLLABORATORS
From 21 – 29 January Melbourne Media Lab [http://www.medialabmelbourne.com.au/sprints/]
will host the Unconstrained sprint (sprints are short periods of intensive project
development, based on a theme), an investigation into everyday technologies and
the way in which they have become so complex, powerful or taken for granted. Melbourne
Media Lab will be developing a number of parallel projects and brainstorming various
topics to fruition. If you are interested in the social and political dimensions
of technology or just like to have fun and/or enjoy tinkering, crafting, performing,
hacking or sculpting, then come and be part of the team. All disciplines are welcome.
