Facebook ads gone strange
Seems that a lot of the sidebar ads I’m seeing on Facebook lately are strange. See the most recent here. What’s up, Facebook?
Category Media
Alain de Botton from TED: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
Thanks to Scott for pointing me in the direction of this TED video, which I love. (TED has a bounty of wonderful videos online, by the way. Highly worth perusing their site.) “It would be insane to call Hamlet a…
Project Tuva from Bill Gates & Microsoft
Bill Gates has funded a project at Microsoft Research to provide classic lectures in physics for free online. Some of the famous Feynman Lectures are presented with searchable video, embedded information, and educational resources. Check it out at Project Tuva.
Live Polling from The Onion
Brilliant video from The Onion: New Live Poll Allows Pundits To Pander To Viewers In Real Time
A Dark Sky over Death Valley
I have fallen in love with this picture of the Milky Way over Death Valley in the dark of night: Find details, plus the original image, on this NASA website: APOD: 2007 May 8 – A Dark Sky over Death Valley
DEADLINE post-it stop motion
Awesome video of Post-It notes in stop motion: (Thanks to Andrew Sullivan for the link)
Bill Gates on his new projects
I love the TED videos. I especially liked Bill Gates’s talk on his philanthropic efforts (in this case, fighting malaria and improving education). Bill’s more engaging as a speaker on these issues than he is talking about software. Thumbs up,…
Political humor
(Thanks to the Flickr users whose profiles are linked to through their photos above)
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original”
This is wonderful.
Hilarious American Gladiators video
Stumbled across this video of Malibu from American Gladiators talking about his injury. Check it out. Be sure to watch until the very end. Priceless :)