2010 Apr 11, 3:51"In fact, more air marshals have been arrested than the number of people arrested by air marshals." Its easy to get awesome stats like this when talking about lawlessness on airplanes given its great
infrequency.
statistics humor security bruce-schneier airplane 2010 Mar 23, 9:10Laziness is a virtue in programming esp. wrt. security. Marc Stiegler gives a talk at Google on the topic.
via:kris.kowal programming security video google lazy 2010 Feb 18, 4:57Bing Maps TED talk demos integration of various things including photosynth, flickr photos, and live video.
video microsoft map flickr 3d photosynth bing augmented-reality 2010 Feb 1, 7:57Interesting Q&A on TED plus Chris Anderson's list of favorite TED talks.
ted video qa chris-anderson interview reddit 2010 Jan 29, 10:16Talk of Firefox on Android. Sounds good to me!
mobile google android firefox web browser technical 2010 Jan 8, 2:08Flickr dev talks image metadata the various forms which to prefer and how to guess at their character encodings.
unicode charset flickr photo image exif programming reference xmp technical 2009 Dec 23, 10:03"Christopher “moot” Poole, the young founder of the irascible online forum 4chan, will speak in February at the TED conference, the elite gathering of thought leaders whose video-taped talks have
become immensely popular online." Its like TED is just asking for it.
ted 4chan christopher-poole moot 2009 Dec 4, 5:06"If you want to watch videos from the National Archives today, they try to talk you into buying a DVD from the official government partner, Amazon.Com...To demonstrate to the Congress that if we
liberated this wonderful content people would really care, I forked over $251 for 20 DVDs and posted them on-line."
video history politics government public-domain internet-archive 2009 Nov 23, 11:47'Bill Gates is being taken on a guided tour of the product support department's new office building...Bill puts on a headset, sits down, and answers the phone. "Hello, this is Microsoft Product
Support, William speaking. How can I help you?"'
humor microsoft bill-gates raymond-chen support history 2009 Oct 30, 10:41All the stuff Nintendo forces developers to take out of the Nintendo Maniac Mansion port. I had read this before and didn't connect after watching Douglas Crockford's JavaScript talk that this was
the same guy.
douglas-crockford game videogame nintendo censorship pc history geek 2009 Oct 28, 11:02"This session will expose the goodness in JavaScript, an outstanding dynamic programming language. Within the language is an elegant subset that is vastly superior to the language as a whole, being
more reliable, readable and maintainable." Zeke recommended listening to his talks.
google video technical douglas-crockford javascript programming presentation jslint web browser 2009 Aug 26, 3:28"Don't they know this is just another passing lame-ass internet fad?" Hitler mocks the subtitled Hitler Internet meme, and those not in on the joke. Note that this is a bit meta: see some of the
other videos first for examples of what Hitler is talking about here.
humor youtube video hitler meme 2009 Jul 27, 11:28Olivia Wilde (I know her from House) who will appear in Tron Legacy gives an interview at Comic-Con that includes "...her experiences working with Jeff Bridges (she had to put her fist in her mouth
to not ask about “The Dude”)."
humor interview house olivia-wilde tron tron-legacy wired jeff-bridges dude video 2009 Jul 20, 5:20"what better way to celebrate the tremendously fascinating week ahead than with a special behind-the-scenes look at all the incredible energy — physical, intellectual, emotional — that goes into the
making of a TED talk?"
blog ted conference design video 2009 May 13, 11:21Lots of interesting notes on the company culture of Zappos. "Yesterday I was lucky enough to visit Zappos and get a tour and talk with some of their executives, including Tony Hsieh, CEO."
twitter marketing business culture zappos shoes ecommerce 2009 May 13, 10:17"Harvard's Office for Scholarly Communication has brought Kenneth Crews of Columbia Law School to talk about "Protecting Your Scholarship: Copyrights, Publication Agreements, and Open Access.""
harvard kenneth-crews berkman david-weinberger blog copyright talk live-blog 2009 Apr 23, 6:21You can link into the middle of a YouTube video using a fragment like '#t=30m14s'. Matt combines this with his transcript...: "If you run that over your entire caption file - boom - you have a
clickable transcript of your video."
video blog hack youtube url transcript 2009 Mar 14, 10:23TED talks from Aimee Mullins mostly on the topics of her prosthetic legs. The two talks are eleven years apart and you can note the advances in tech. "A record-breaker at the Paralympic Games in
1996, Aimee Mullins has built a career as a model, actor and activist for women, sports and the next generation of prosthetics."
aimee-mullins video ted prosthetic body-mod via:boingboing 2009 Jan 26, 2:12Mark Pilgrim's series of articles and slides from a corresponding talk on video encoding.
mark-pilgrim video encoding audio reference codec
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