TED Talks

2007-10-28

It seems maybe I'm the last to know but I just found out about TED Talks. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is apparently a conference bringing together people from all different disciplines to share their ideas and inspire each other.

Those talks are available online at www.ted.com and they extremely inspiring. They are each only allowed to be up to 20 minutes so they are very easy to watch or listen to. So far of the ones I've watched these were the most inspiring for me.

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CatalogChoice.org

2007-10-21

I found out about this site called CatalogChoice.org who is trying to make it easier to opt out of receiving catalogs in the mail. According to them more than 19 BILLION catalogs are mailed out each year. I know that I rarely want the catalogs I get in the mail. Some companiese are particularly agressive and send a new catalog every 2 weeks. I even get catalogs for about 6 previous tenants.

If you are getting catalogs you don't want here's a very simple way to cancel them.

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Site Moved?

2007-06-22

It looks like it's finally moved. I've turned comments and the forum back on. I'll cross my fingers things are all working again.

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Japan according to Hilton Hotels

2007-06-13

My friend 6955 showed me this yesterday....What's wrong with this picture?

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Facebook Sucks

2007-06-12

Facebook seriously sucks. I don't really understand how it got as big as it supposedly is. I can't connect with the person sitting directly in front of me because Facebook only lets me search for people who have registered in the same company, or college. WTF!

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Popup Ads, Pop Behind Ads. Good or Evil? (part 1)

2007-05-28

Popup ads and pop behind ads. I thought they were universally loathed. They have been the topic of quite a few comedy sketches. A few famous ones are the Dave Chappelle skit about a world where popups appear in real life. Conan O'Brian's staff trip to India which starts off with them and another I remember off the top of my head is Interfection from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

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Wii Geography Lessons

2007-03-22

Those of you that have a Nintendo Wii probably know that it has a News feature. It's kind of neat in that it shows the articles and shows a marker on a 3d globe map of the world where the story takes place.

Unfortunately it leaves a little to be desired in terms of matching the names of places to their actual places on the globe.

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Don't get mugged at GDC

2007-02-28

2 years ago 4 of my friends at Sega got mugged the day they arrived in San Francisco for the Game Devlepers Conference. One of them got a broken tooth and a concussion.

I don't know San Francisco that well yet but in the interest of trying to prevent something like that happening again here's a map.

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The Secret Life of Machines

2007-02-08

I don't know how long they'll be up but if you've never seen them check out The Secret Life of Machines on Google Video.

The Secret Life of Machines is a program that aired on the BBC in the late 80s, early 90s that explains how lots of machines work in super simple ways. It also used to run on the Discovery channel. It's crazy how simple some machines really are. One example, they make a tape recorder by showing that if you put rust on a piece of tape and manually run it across a recording head it will record on to the rust.

Some of the cooler ones:

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Gifts for older Video Game Fans

2006-12-25

I wish I had found Etsy before Christmas

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