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The Homeless World Cup is a wonderful mission to beat homelessness through football. The tournament is an annual world class, international football competition inspiring 70 national grass roots football projects and over 30,000 homeless players a year to change their lives: over 70% change for the better.
Undilah is a PSA Project by Pete Teo that is launched in conjunction with Malaysia Day on 16 September. Undilah seeks to educate and call for Malaysian citizens to register as voters.
“The right to vote is the fundamental basis of your citizenship. It is also how we as citizens can determine the social, political and economic directions of Malaysia. So it is an important duty that has ramifications beyond our lifetimes and one that you must take seriously on behalf of not just yourself but your children and theirs.” – Pete Teo
Bored of studying for that exam? Falling asleep at work? There’s no greater time waster than Gif.tv
With a new gif every mouse click, you can now watch gifs all day.
(Click on the tv to get a new gif)
An poignant exploration into the power of apologies and forgiveness.
The "Dear Malaysians" campaign was created to help Malaysians say "I'm sorry" and seek forgiveness from one another during the festive season. Hopefully, it'll teach us how to brighten someone's day, one apology at a time.
Spread the joy of forgiveness at www.dearmalaysians.com
The Bowls for Humanity campaign is a CSR (corporate social responsibility) initiative recently launched by Padiberas Nasional Berhad (BERNAS) to feed orphans across 150 selected orphanages through out the country.
The campaign will see BERNAS donating 25 grams of rice for every 10kg of BERNAS (and participating brands) rice purchased nationwide. The rice packs will be marked by a “Bowls for Humanity” sticker to highlight to the consumer that they are not only buying rice but also contributing to the noble campaign.
So the next time you’re out of rice, please do look out for the special rice packs and help feed the orphans of Malaysia.
Pictory is sort of an online magazine that showcases the best photo stories submitted by people from all over the world. Submissions are based on a theme chosen by the Pictory team and the best 20 – 40 photo stories are then showcased on the Pictory website. This results in some amazing photos and heart felt stories that have made me a regular visitor to their website.
Popular timepiece maker Bell & Ross is one of the pioneers that realized the potential of the internet and were one of the few brands that launched their web presence in the early days of the internet. This together with great watches is one of the reasons for their huge following.
They recently moved to a new headquarters and have now launched a brand new website. The new website does an excellent job in showcasing the brands collection with click and drag navigation that will work well for tablet users as well.
This is an interactive music video for a song called 3 Dreams of Black which is featured on the album Rome. Rome is a music collaboration between Danger Mouse, Daniele Lippi, Jack White and Norah Jones.
Rome: 3 Dreams of Black was created by Chris Milk and the guys at Google Creative Labs using WebGL, a context of HTML5 that enables hardware accelerated browser based 3D graphics without a plug-in.
One of the best creative use of WebGL that I have seen.
Links: Rome: 3 Dreams of Black | Rome The Album | Chrome Experiments
Found this site while searching for ideas on how to make some changes to my Ikea shelf. Who would have thought there is a site dedicated to modifications of Ikea furniture or as they called it hacks, hence the name Ikea Hackers.
Now I’m off to perform a little hack on that Ikea shelf of mine.
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