http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath/2012/06/03/numeric-pareidolia-and-vortex-math/
whoops.
― s.clover, Monday, 4 June 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.buzzfeed.com/annetrubek/oh-god-ted-makes-a-book
lol.
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 28 June 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal05/2012/6/28/11/enhanced-buzz-11596-1340898404-22.jpg
― am0n, Thursday, 28 June 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwjlDBjNzXk
― am0n, Thursday, 28 June 2012 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
ohgod the excerpts from that book
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 28 June 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
this book sounds retarded
― carly rae (flopson), Thursday, 28 June 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
also don't neglect to read the one s. clover posted
― carly rae (flopson), Thursday, 28 June 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
I felt kind of bad that I was mocking TED at my friend who was asked to write a blog post for a local TEDx site. But I can see where he'd appreciate some of it because he's got an architecture background, and holy shit does that TED book sound like some of the crap that architects write.
― mh, Thursday, 28 June 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDHET3aCI2U
― s.clover, Saturday, 11 August 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
nope
― ○ (gr8080), Saturday, 11 August 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
the tools and the passion, at the same damn timeimagine the future and the past, at the same damn timewonder insight ideas, at the same damn timewill you dream with me, will you build with me, at the same damn timeat the same damn time, at the same damn timeat the same damn time, at the same damn timeat the same damn time, at the same damn timeted time
― sleepingbag, Sunday, 12 August 2012 07:25 (eleven years ago) link
Via Whiney. Brooklyn's cycle is now complete:
http://www.brooklynbowl.com/event/189045?utm_source=MEL&utm_medium=20281
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 November 2012 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
"What if I told you that everything you *thought* you knew about TED Talks -- namely that they were of some intellectual substance -- was wrong??"
― Cunga, Monday, 26 November 2012 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
Do you guys not see that we are moving beyond SmartPhones and SmartComputers, into a technological and -- dare I say it? -- moral breakthrough that will bring us all SmartLives? That information is a friend and ignorance is on the retreat in all four corners of the world. But before we talk about how society, our society, is smarter than ever: let me tell you about the stabbing I witnessed at a Black Friday sale this weekend, and a quick review of Ke$ha's new album.
― Cunga, Monday, 26 November 2012 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
is the signature sound of TED uptalk.
― s.clover, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
TEDx talks are the user-generated someecards of the lecture circuit
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
This article has it right:
TED is no longer a responsible curator of ideas “worth spreading.” Instead it has become something ludicrous, and a little sinister.Today TED is an insatiable kingpin of international meme laundering—a place where ideas, regardless of their quality, go to seek celebrity, to live in the form of videos, tweets, and now e-books. In the world of TED—or, to use their argot, in the TED “ecosystem”—books become talks, talks become memes, memes become projects, projects become talks, talks become books—and so it goes ad infinitum in the sizzling Stakhanovite cycle of memetics, until any shade of depth or nuance disappears into the virtual void. Richard Dawkins, the father of memetics, should be very proud. Perhaps he can explain how “ideas worth spreading” become “ideas no footnotes can support.”
Today TED is an insatiable kingpin of international meme laundering—a place where ideas, regardless of their quality, go to seek celebrity, to live in the form of videos, tweets, and now e-books. In the world of TED—or, to use their argot, in the TED “ecosystem”—books become talks, talks become memes, memes become projects, projects become talks, talks become books—and so it goes ad infinitum in the sizzling Stakhanovite cycle of memetics, until any shade of depth or nuance disappears into the virtual void. Richard Dawkins, the father of memetics, should be very proud. Perhaps he can explain how “ideas worth spreading” become “ideas no footnotes can support.”
from: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/105703/the-naked-and-the-ted-khanna
― Poliopolice, Friday, 8 March 2013 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/ayman-alzawahiri-delivers-tedtalk-on-changing-face,31869/
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, 31 March 2013 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
The manliness thread introduced me to this guy's page:http://vimeo.com/jasonsilva
his bio is like napalm
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 21:51 (ten years ago) link
Many have called Silva an "Idea DJ" and a poet, describing him as "a re-vitalizer and remixer of optimism, and above all, a curator: of ideas, of inspiration, and of awe... like a trumpet player or modern-day digital Mingus, he jams, riffs and rhapsodizes through a tumbling thicket of ideas with such a sharp and vital alacrity that it can take the breath away."
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 21:54 (ten years ago) link
I guess he really could go in the awesomeness fest bucket, too, but I think he's got different aspirations
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 21:55 (ten years ago) link
He left the network to become, according to The Atlantic, "a part-time filmmaker and full-time walking, talking TEDTalk."
a lot of statehouses have been debating laws against this kind of thing lately
― j., Tuesday, 17 September 2013 21:57 (ten years ago) link
MANY have called him an idea dj??
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 22:38 (ten years ago) link
Actually, according to that quote, many have described him as "a re-vitalizer and remixer of optimism, and above all, a curator: of ideas, of inspiration, and of awe... like a trumpet player or modern-day digital Mingus, he jams, riffs and rhapsodizes through a tumbling thicket of ideas with such a sharp and vital alacrity that it can take the breath away." There's really an incredible degree of consensus on this guy.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 01:04 (ten years ago) link
But I mean based on this guy's bio he is actually reasonably well-known it sounds like?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 01:06 (ten years ago) link
I know, you would think he wouldn't sound so desperate if he's actually done reasonable work, but apparently he's ramped it up to be a motivational speaker
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 01:21 (ten years ago) link
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, September 17, 2013 9:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
never trust bios. especially bios of ppl whose job seems to be self-promoter
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 20:38 (ten years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Lovethesetrees
It's cool, just a wikipedia user that only ever edited a single page, nothing suspicious here
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 21:15 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/p9uEHzA.jpg
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link
pictures of people who have figured out how to swindle
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:09 (ten years ago) link
He has some innovative strategies to help you become sexually available.
― fake penthouse letters mcgee, Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
"From YOUR point of view I'm oriented northwest to southeast.... but from MY point of view it's northeast to southwest! MAKES U THINK"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
can alacrity really be sharp
― j., Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
thing about him is, he still thinks inside the box.
― fake penthouse letters mcgee, Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/nowjzaq.jpg
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:32 (ten years ago) link
My departmental yearly meeting kicked off with someone playing a TED talk and I was dying inside
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
WONDER
― Spectrum, Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link
only happens in that intersection of science and art
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
i don't know if anyone noticed but there's a little subliminal thing in the above image of him saying hi.
― fake penthouse letters mcgee, Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
The NPR/TED radio hour is some amazing synergy, guys.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 19 September 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
synergism
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 19 September 2013 19:26 (ten years ago) link
It would be so awesome if he then lifted up his other hand and on the palm was written "YOU DIPSHIT"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 20 September 2013 00:36 (ten years ago) link
http://i39.tinypic.com/wt7hhs.jpg
― fake penthouse letters mcgee, Friday, 20 September 2013 00:57 (ten years ago) link
this man is a hero:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yFhR1fKWG0
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 11 October 2013 13:24 (ten years ago) link
i don't lol often but i have been rolling.
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 October 2013 21:37 (ten years ago) link
WE'RE GONNA KILL 'EM ALL!!!
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 11 October 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/13/ted_talks_are_lying_to_you/
― Saul Goodberg (by Musket and Pup Tent) (s.clover), Sunday, 13 October 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
Look on the other speakers' faces during the q&a is priceless
― goth drama is universal (latebloomer), Sunday, 13 October 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
:D
― imago, Sunday, 13 October 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
clover that thing has sharp knives watch out
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 13 October 2013 23:31 (ten years ago) link