It’s a bootleg copy of one of our most popular Netflix shows, a curated collection called “Sex, Secrets and Love.” You can watch this collection yourself on Netflix Streaming, or find it on DailyMotion. Or, if you’d prefer a hard copy, did you know: You can order up a DVD of your favorite six TED Talks through our DVD on Demand service. And as with this bootleg above, you can make your own cover art …

Photo: Jason Wishnow. The text at right begins: Are you going to die for love? Are you going to lie or cheat for love?

Our first follow-up: Nicholas Negroponte and his One Laptop Per Child initiative.

I flew to Colombia with just under a day’s notice, arriving in Bogota on Thursday, December 4th at 6am. Three hours later, camera in hand, I was soaring over the Andes in the cockpit of a military transport (the kind of plane you’d expect Val Kilmer to drive a Jeep into) along with Nicholas Negroponte, the Commander-in-Chief of the Colombian Army, the Minister of Defense, a lot of soldiers, and a handful of dignitaries and journalists. We were visiting a town in the center of Colombia, called La Macarena, which had been under guerrilla control over the last 40 years. Nicholas presented the kids with 650 of his little green computers.

After losing myself for an hour or so filming the kids in their classrooms I realized all the soldiers had disappeared and Nicholas was nowhere to be found either. I ran along the dusty road leading to the airstrip just in time to watch a military plane take off and when I asked the three guards on duty if they had seen my friends they pointed to the sky.

I was in the middle of nowhere, I had no cash in my pocket, no cellphone reception, and I speak Spanish exclusively in the present tense.

Conjugating nearly every verb I could channel from the eighth grade, I told the soldiers I had to return to their nation’s capital inmediatamente. Next thing I knew, I was being whisked away in a motorbike cab by half a dozen members of the local youth police corps. Their ring leader, an eight year-old girl, explained to the rest, “You need to ask him easier questions. He speaks Spanish like a baby.” I didn’t know where they were taking me, but so long as we didn’t drive the motorcycle over the Andes and past the FARC, I figured things would work out.

Sure enough, the kids dropped me off at an incredible vista to be reunited with Nicholas and the rest of my travel companions. They hadn’t left at all, they had just moved on.

Laptops delivered, the next morning I was on a plane back to New York.

My rescuers are pictured above. Below are a couple snapshots of the gunner from the helicopter and me playing with his ammo.

You can find out more about OLPC and the G1G1 program here – www.laptop.org

And you can watch the video here – Nicholas Negroponte Takes OLPC to Colombia (6 mins)

The Martin Jetpack ($100,000) supposedly floats (noisily) at an altitude of up to 8000 feet for up to 30 minutes, but all the video clips I’ve seen don’t do the device justice because, first, the pilot should be wearing a silver jumpsuit (not a black one) and there are two guys stabilizing him the entire time. If I wanted to wear a black suit while two guys carried me six feet off the ground, I would have a Bar Mitzvah.

Despite that, should anyone care to bring their Martin Jetpack to TED next year, please let me know, I wouldn’t mind crashing into a tree with one strapped to my back.

Which reminds me, isn’t the Back to the Future 2 Hoverboard prop for sale on eBay this week…?

Photo: Andy Manis for The New York Times

We’re looking for a FULLTIME MEDIA PRODUCTION ASSISTANT skilled in the following areas:

• Web & blog savvy: experienced with blogs and the web, able to troubleshoot HTML, update RSS feeds, manage and organize media assets.

• Fluency/Familiarity with: Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Image Ready, Illustrator, InDesign), optimizing images for the web.

• Skilled with: Final Cut Pro and working knowledge of video editing.

• Familiarity with: basic principles of video encoding and compression (Cleaner, Compressor, Flash).

• Experience with graphic design and video editing / motion graphics A PLUS.

Ideal candidate is creative, collaborative, curious and multi-faceted.

This job is based out of our New York (Tribeca) office. Salary will be based on experience.

Email us at jobs (at) ted (dot) com. Include “Media Production Assistant” in the subject. Be sure to tell us about your favorite TEDTalk…

Note: This posting will be removed when the position is filled.

We’re thrilled to announce the first batch of TEDTalks SD – four times the image size of regular TEDTalks – optimized for viewing on your computer – or playing back through your television.

Download – Hans Rosling (2006) – 195 MB Download – Jeff Han (2006) – 96 MB Download – TEDTalks Trailer – 30 MB

More TEDTalks: TEDTalks website | iTunes (audio) | iTunes (video)

Just got back from a screening of “Who Killed the Electric Car?” an entertaining documentary – opening this week in NY and LA – chronicling the remarkable story of the little car that couldn’t: the GM EV1.

I had the privilege of visiting the film crew on location, in the summer of 2004, mere days before GM carted away the last of the EV1s. I drove it, literally, into the sunset, and you may not believe me when I say it, but that car packed a serious PUNCH.

The film tends to wear its message on its sleeve, but a cast of colorful characters (including one of the more adorable on-screen romances of all time) plus unspoken parallels between the short-lived EV-era and the demise of the LA Red Car keep it moving. If “An Inconvenient Truth” only whet your appetite for environmentally engaging cinema but left you yearning for more, visit http://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com for a quick fix.