Art
Georgia O'Keefe: Software muse?
Was the Firefox logo influenced by the eerily similar Georgia O’Keefe painting, “Goat Horn with Red”?
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Business
An astonishing sentence…
The Wall Street Journal reports that top Web portals are selling out their ad space months in advance.
Architecture
How green is your roof?
At TED2005, William McDonough dropped jaws with imagery from the world’s largest “living roof,” which he designed for the Ford Motor Company. This week, World Changing assesses the state-of-the-art in green roof technology.
Quantum genius
Legendary physicist David Deutsch, who gave a stunning talk at TEDGlobal, just won the $100,000 Edge of Computation Prize.
Invention
Changing the World One Cookie at a Time
Malcolm Gladwell writes a New Yorker piece on TEDster Steve Gundrum’s quest for the perfect cookie … a connection made at TED2004.
Technology
Oh, Woody!
Targeted soundwave used to thwart pirate attack on cruise ship; Woody Norris demo’d a gentler version of the technology at TEDGlobal
Film
Blink: The Movie
Malcolm Gladwell’s “Blink: The power of thinking without thinking,” will be adapted to a feature film, starring Leonard DiCaprio.
Film
Raiders: A tribute
Our trio of cross-country TED salons wrapped up this week with a screening at the gorgeous vintage Silent Movie Theater in Hollywood. TED has always celebrated creativity, innovation, and the passionate pursuit of a vision that others might have written of as … crazy. So when we heard that three teenagers in Mississippi had re-created […]
Biology
Brilliant, Larry
A wonderful evening in Woodside last night with TED Prize Winner Dr Larry Brilliant and 100 TEDsters. He shared a little of his story, his involvement in the eradication of smallpox, and his current desire to do something about the risk of an avian flu pandemic.He was simultaneously terrifying and inspiring, and provoked a remarkable […]
Perils of URLs
An email this morning from TEDster Julian Treasure gave me huge pleasure. Unbelievably, these are all real sites. ————A few salutary examples that should make us all think twice… Firstly there is Who Represents?, a database for agencies to the rich and famous: http://www.whorepresents.com Second is the Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can […]
Biology
Olivia Judson on evolution in progress
Olivia Judson (TED2005) has a provocative piece in the Sunday New York Times, tying together two timely topics in the TED community: Avian flu and the evolution “debate.” Judson, the evolutionary biologist who wrote Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation, explains how the nail-biting progression of Avian Flu (Will it jump from birds to […]
Development
In search of 250 souls with knowledge to share
So, the quirky competition I launched last week relating to Pledgebank.com has a winner. It is TEDster Lucy Hooberman. She’s looking to re-ignite an idea that was floated at TED in February (literally… it came from the World-Changing Ideas Cruise). The idea is to set up a Global Mentoring Alliance… the sharing of knowledge from […]
Music
Check out Imogen Heap's new CD…
Imogen ("Immi") made a splash at TED2004 as the female half of Frou Frou. Her new CD "Speak for Yourself" launched this week, the title being an apt description of how the CD was produced – she did the whole thing from her own studio, writing all the songs, and playing every instrument. The result […]
Development
New meets old: Wikipedia may go to print
At TEDGlobal this summer, Jimmy Wales outlined his vision for Wikipedia, his online storehouse of knowledge, collaboratively written by unpaid volunteers worldwide. His goal: to provide everyone in the world access to a free encyclopedia. But not just through the web. Eventually, he told us, he’d like to create a print version, as well. He […]
Design
The season's best buyer's guide
Leave it to Mark Hurst to not only write an extraordinary buyer’s guide, but also provide a comprehensive theoretical framework for doing so. Mark (founder of Good Experience) is a long-time advocate of the user experience, broadly defined. And lately he’s been troubled by twin themes: complexity and choice. Complexity in consumer products (It’s a […]
Design
National Design Awards
The 2005 U.S. National Design Awards were announced last week, with several of our TED friends among them. Congratulations to Burt Rutan (Product design), Stefan Sagmeister (Communication design), and Eva Zeisel (lifetime achievement). Well done!