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What do you want to make today?

As I write this, I’m somewhere over Nebraska, squished in the back of coach class. A perfect opportunity to re-read TED 2006 speaker N...

Feb 12, 2006
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Entertainment

CelebrityWatch: Al Gore

If you studiously avoided all news coming out of Utah last month, you may have missed the fact that Al Gore has emerged a movie star. An Inc...

Feb 10, 2006
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Technology

CompanyWatch: FON

Lots of commentary in the blogosphere this week on 3-month-old start-up FON, which just received backing from Google and Skype, as well as S...

Feb 7, 2006
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Music

DEVO Remakes DEVO

As I watched the Disney Channel with my kids this weekend I was horrified by what I saw.  Disney Records has released an album of re-re...

Feb 7, 2006
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Entertainment

Stay tuned for … Michael Montes's Superbowl premiere

During the TED salon this fall at Joe’s Pub, we were treated to the world premiere of Colobus, a dark and unsettling orchestral piece ...

Feb 3, 2006
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Entertainment

Tis the season for Superbowl ads

As Superbowl Sunday approaches, our thoughts turn lightly toward … TV advertising, what else? And if the build-up to the game has you ...

Feb 3, 2006
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Entertainment

Steven Johnson on Charlie Rose on Google Video

Last month, Google released a new video service, allowing users to preview and purchase videos online. If you’ve yet to try the servic...

Feb 2, 2006
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Architecture

TED's got the look

I could lose my blogging privileges for this, but I felt like someone had to point out TED’s Headquarters brightening up the pages of ...

Jan 31, 2006
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Music

Einstein and Mozart

Many of you have no doubt read Godel Escher Bach, the brilliant and entertaining treatise by Douglas Hofstadter, drawing connections between...

Jan 31, 2006
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