The first Hollywood movie featuring notable stars was released on YouTube today. It will only take 79 minutes of your time to find out if it is any good.
Seeing The Evolution of Language
Deb Roy shared insights from 90,000 hours of home video with the TED 2011 audience. In addition to mapping the language acquisition of his infant son, Roy revealed a blueprint for data mining complex relationships in mass media engagement.
The Noun Project
A web site is collecting, organizing, and expanding a universal library of recognizable symbols, the building blocks of the world’s visual language.
Up And Running (Out of Helium)
National Geographic manages to lift a real-life house into the air with balloons. It was a wasteful choice, if the 300 balloons were filled with helium.
Boldly Go To Max’s Place
On April 6th, the Bloomington Geek Dinner attendees will hear an Indianapolis band, Five Year Mission, whose goal is to write an original song for every Star Trek episode.
Alien-Schmelien
Richard Hoover of NASA is just the latest to claim evidence of alien life. Pending further review by his peers, skepticism is running high.
The Spread of TED
PostRank applies their real-time engagement monitoring engine to reveal which TED talks are being discussed.