TED Talks, surface area & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-09-12
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With all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experience in ways -– mathematically and scientifically — that only computers can.
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Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled “a ragtag band of volunteers,” gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia.
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In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterpieces.
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In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterpieces.
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In the same way that a circle turns into a solid sphere, an ellipse can become a solid “ellipsoid”.
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In the same way that a circle turns into a solid sphere, an ellipse can become a solid “ellipsoid”.
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And the U.K. is A Place To Bury Strangers as the band tours the islands come late November / December. November 29 is Birmingham at Barfly, November 30 is Glasgow at Nice ‘N’ Sleazy and December 1 is Belfast at The Limelight. Other cities include Manchester, Cardiff, Leeds and London.
Tags: a place to bury Strangers, aptbs, surface area
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