William Kamkwamba: How I built my family a windmill

When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working from rough plans he found in a library book. In conversation with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Kamkwamba, now 19, tells a moving story of ingenuity and adaptation, and shares his dreams for the future. This talk inspired outpourings of support from the TED community and in the blogosphere.

Martin Luther King Again

A Grand Irony

When you take away an individual's true sense of self, and have them believe that their real identity is an ego walking around in a bag of skin you can get them to believe anything, and get them to buy anything.
This creates some strange ironic situations such as women in the Middle East and India buy creams to become more white and Caucasian women buy creams to get more 'tanned'

In the first video, from Lebanon I believe, the woman has a miserable life and she doesn't get the job because she is too dark. But viola! she puts some magic cream on her face and her whole life changes!

In India if you plaster this shit on your face you can become a famous Bollywood star!


And just in case you thought you were too pale,


It's tragic that Madison Avenue marketing gurus don't seem content with destroying the self-esteem of Caucasian women, now they want to destroy everyone's self-esteem in order to sell them more magic potions and lotions! Isn't globalization great?

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Haven't updated the blog for over a month...but I have a lot things to add. I'll be adding more of my own writings too.