Like the Elizabethan Merchants of Light, my work is to track down, contexualize and share unusual cultural, scientific, technological wares (even occasional genius) & tools from many varied worlds, for your pleasure and profitable use.

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heroes / mindsnack / storytelling

stories trump stats

by Maximillian Kaizen on Oct 14, 2010 • No Comments
data takes on new life and utility when it's nested in stuff regular human brains can make sense of. It's well worth learning to wrap scary numbers in compelling tales to help others tap a little of their heroic alter-egos occasionally too.
couch marathoners : gamers gone good
Games / mindsnack

couch marathoners : gamers gone good

by Maximillian Kaizen on Jul 3, 2010 • No Comments
They're not just playing for fun: they are raising money for Child's Play, a gamer-created, gamer-supported charity that fulfills the wish lists of over 60 hospital's children's units worldwide. Each donation buys the games, the consoles and the movies that bring a little bit of fun into an otherwise gruelling hospital experience.
blog / Brilliant Brave / creative genius / mindsnack / try-it

Wild wordshaped worlds : words make flesh

by Maximillian Kaizen on Feb 1, 2007 • 2 Comments
A little homage to a wordsmith & wildman, a genius for those who were born with fire in their bellies >> “I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world” – care of the blazing Walt Whitman >>   Perhaps it’s something...

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