Everyone raves about the iPod’s design. Call me cranky, but I think it could be massively improved. Here are my top peeves: 1) Battery life. On every iPod mini, Shuffle and Nano that I’ve owned, it has been atrocious. Less than 4 hours. My five-year-old 6-gig PJB-100 MP3 player comfortably delivered 10. Apple advertises 14 […]
NameVoyager lets you track the rise and fall of names over time.
An article in the Pacific Sun on TEDPrize winner Larry Brilliant
Sleepy? This 60-second spot – which begins with modern art making a break for it – is the triple venti latte of TV commercials.
There’s a familiar TED face in the Madonna video, Hung-Up.
Julia Sweeney’s extraordinary one-woman show, “Letting Go of God,” comes to New York. Sweeney to perform at TED2006.
The era of mass movie-going is over, says the L.A. Times. Hollywood is “in a losing race with the zeitgeist.”
What to make of recent research positing that ‘selective breeding’ over the last two milennia has resulted in superior intelligence (and rare genetic diseases) among Ashkenazi — or Eastern European — Jews? The unpublished study has been backed up, shot down and certainly hyped. If you’re looking for insight — and you’re in New York […]
Penguin released a line of gorgeous little paperbacks celebrating Great Ideas.
Despair, Inc sells profoundly demotivating posters and placards
Due to open Jan 1, the Grand Canyon Skywalk juts out about 70 feet into the canyon, 4000 ft above the Colorado River.
Two highly anticipated museum exhibits open this weekend: Darwin in New York, and Masters of American Comics in LA.
Nicholas Negroponte unveils his famed $100 (lime green) laptop for the developing world.
This Sunday, the comedy event “Earth to America” will air on TBS, featuring comedians Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Ben Stiller and others, raising awareness about global warming.
Following the thread of green design … today’s New York Times profiles Sim Van der Ryn, the Bay Area-based pioneer in sustainable architecture, whose work includes the solar-powered Guitar House, a 15,000 sq. foot “rammed earth” mansion, believed to be the world’s largest green residence.
Those of you who attended TEDGlobal will remember this mesmerizing TV commercial, directed by Spike Jonze for Adidas. A new Nike spot reminds us of it, somehow.