January 2012
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Warning: Your reality is out of date - The Boston... →
December 2011
3 posts
November 2011
1 post
Kickstarter - Dark Sky - Weather Prediction,... →
This is a really exciting-sounding app. I totally want a copy.
August 2011
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June 2011
4 posts
Terry Moore: How to tie your shoes | TED.com
Leonard Susskind: My friend Richard Feynman | TED.com
Roger Ebert: Remaking my voice | TED.com
You know what? I know I brought this up, but I don’t really want to talk...
April 2011
1 post
Morgan Spurlock: The greatest TED Talk ever sold | TED
February 2011
2 posts
Michael Pawlyn: Using nature’s genius in architecture | Video on TED.com
January 2011
1 post
Thomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster — from scratch | Video on TED.com
November 2010
4 posts
Down there are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any...
– Lord Havelock Vetinari, Guards! Guards!
Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty | Video on TED.com
Eric Berlow: How complexity leads to simplicity | Video on TED.com
You can get much further with a kind word and an unstoppable battle-hardened...
June 2010
2 posts
I… I just.. I … *cry*
An Energy-Independent Future | The Daily Show | Comedy Central
Rory Sutherland: Sweat the small stuff | Video on TED.com
May 2010
4 posts
Craig Venter unveils “synthetic life” | Video on TED.com
One Washington →
But I wonder if one of the ways to bring the two sides of the state closer together both politically and culturally is to close the physical distance between them… namely, by building high-speed rail from Seattle to Spokane.
The Duct Tape Programmer - Joel on Software →
Jamie Zawinski is what I would call a duct-tape programmer. And I say that with a great deal of respect. He is the kind of programmer who is hard at work building the future, and making useful things so that people can do stuff. He is the guy you want on your team building go-carts, because he has two favorite tools: duct tape and WD-40. And he will wield them elegantly even as your go-cart is...
“Moore’s Law made computing cheap. So cheap, we can weigh the life of an individual insect.”
Nathan Myhrvold: Could this laser zap malaria? | TED
October 2009
2 posts
Julian Treasure: The 4 ways sound affects us - TED
“If you have to work in an open-plan office like this, your productivity is greatly reduced. And whatever number you’re thinking of, it probably isn’t as bad as this: you are one-third as productive in open-plan offices as in quiet rooms.” (2:00 in)
September 2009
2 posts
Countdown:Olbermann: Wilson’s factual failure worse than his incivility
James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss | TED
August 2009
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June 2009
1 post
May 2009
2 posts
Larry King | The Daily Show | Comedy Central
Larry King breaks Jon Stewart
Stephen’s Coke Party Protest | May 13th | ColbertNation.com
The comparison of the old cost of a soda vs a the new cost is my favorite part.
April 2009
5 posts
Baracknophobia - Obey | The Daily Show | Comedy Central
Mitt Drops Out | The Daily Show | Comedy Central
posting as a reference to myself.
Dynamic web fonts are coming. Actually they’re already here, but most of Our...
– Fuck the foundries [dive into mark]
Renny Gleeson on antisocial phone tricks - TED
March 2009
4 posts
Adam Savage’s obsessions | TED
Aimee Mullins and her 12 pairs of legs | TED
January 2009
2 posts
November 2008
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Rives tells a story of mixed emoticons - TED.com
October 2008
9 posts
I know ‘elite’ is a bad word in politics, and you wanna go bowling...
– Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, 15 April 2008
One more thing for Senator McCain before this old bird goes to bed. Ronald...
– Margaret and Helen