Aaron mentioned TED to me some time ago as an interesting place to go for talks about the world; technology, science, economics, politics.
I finally got around to checking it out, and I have to admit, there’s a lot there.
It’s a time-consumer, no question, with the video talks running to 20 minutes each, so you might not get to see all of it at a shot, but I’m convinced it’s worthwhile. Right now I’m watching a talk on the application of economics to explaining AIDS in Africa, and there’s more like that.
Check it out.
December 15th, 2006
Chris
Thanks to this asshole, I just lost the Game
This might mark me as exceptionally nerdy, but I just love this set of warning signs for tomorrow, dug up via the instapundit.
Some favourites:
This is the scary one — it should probably be posted in most banks, office buildings, my building, and Britain.
Perhaps those times when you’ve got a project due the next morning “all of a sudden” even though you never let things sit that long?
My life, according to Shaw, some days.
I can just picture this hanging in an effete coffee shop, over books by Sartre, being studiedly ignored by a gaggle of pseudo-intellectual first-year philosophy students.
Seen over the magazine rack containing US, Cosmo, and Maxim.
I think I should get a shirt with this one on it 