TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) talks.

[sushijerk]

Anyone else here browse TED.com when they are bored? I've been watching a bunch of the videos in the talks section and many of them are pretty inpsiring. From Wikipedia:

TED (Technology Entertainment Design) is an annual conference held in California and recently, semi-annually in other cities around the world. TED describes itself as a "group of remarkable people that gather to exchange ideas of incalculable value". Its lectures cover a broad set of topics including science, arts, politics, global issues, architecture, music and more.

Videos from some of my favorite speakers (sry can't embed):

Philippe Stark:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/197

Malcolm Gladwell:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/20

Evelyn Glennie:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/103

Rives:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/148

Was watching one from Seth Gordon about marketing and he came to a point where all I could think about was how relevent this was to the nature of Sufu (scroll to 3/4 of the way into his talk about "otaku") :

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/28

Kind of like youtube except only geniuses are allowed to post video. Hopefully some of you guys will enjoy it as much as me.

[azn8oi]

I took a course on Information Technology last year, and the dipshit professor literally just played TED and Youtube videos everyday as his lecture.

Needless to say, I watched like all of the old TED videos. I remember that otaku one, haha.

Most of the videos are pretty cool.. it was funny to realize that Microsoft was not the company that made the "multitouch tabletop pc".

[unklesteve]

I'm a huge Malcolm Gladwell fan, and his TED talk was amazing. Found a link to it off JoshSpear, the ultimate doucheblog.