http://www.benettontalk.com This is a blog, a place to ponder global themes and stuff we think we all should care about. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:59:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dentsu, Tokyo Design used old newspapers to design a package for a street vendor that sells farm-grown vegetables and fruits. The brief required somethig original, easy to use and low cost. http://www.benettontalk.com/new-paper/ "The Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale." buonPorcogiorno http://www.benettontalk.com/3051/ It's not always that you hear the shouts of "Hallelujah!" and "Allah Akbar!" coming together in the same sermon. Yet this is exactly what his happening with this little cult in Nigeria, which has an almost 50-50 division of Muslims and Christians (not to mention a lot of indigenous religions) living in ... http://www.benettontalk.com/a-nigerian-religion-blends-christianity-with-islam/ Check this page and this page if you haven't heard about this great event already, Iran is experiencing massive rioting, at a scale never before seen since the 1979 revolution, after the reformist politician Mousavi lost to the hardliner Ahmedinejad in what many people believe is a rigged election. Days of rioting have left ... http://www.benettontalk.com/iran-on-fire/ [youtube:www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eKYyD14d_0&feature=fvst 380 307] After Fast Food Nation, Robert Kenner lifts again the veil on American nations food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of governments regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. http://www.benettontalk.com/food-inc/ Take a look at the Pacific Gyre and the plastic floating in it. http://www.benettontalk.com/plastic-ocean/ By Toby Ng Design. http://www.benettontalk.com/if-the-world-were-a-village-of-100-people/ Slingshot Hip Hop is a documentary that tells the stories of young Palestinians living in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. [youtube:www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAhcuLGU6h0 380 307] http://www.benettontalk.com/gaza-hip-hop/ Innovation as a Learning Process from Roger H. Shealy on Vimeo. http://www.benettontalk.com/innovation-as-a-learning-process/ Here is a site that is not that rich in graphics, but contains a treasure-chest of information in words. Behold the Ethnologue website!This on-line encyclopedia contains comprehensive information about the languages of the world. A brief foray into its contents can reveal interesting facts; did you know that Italy was home to ... http://www.benettontalk.com/languages-of-the-world/