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Benjamin Zander: Classical music with shining eyes

scott — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:58:16 +0000

Ok, I realize most of my posts lately are just links to videos, particularly on TED Talks, but I just caught this one a couple days ago and had to share it.

Benjamin Zander is a conductor for the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, teacher, and public speaker. Earlier this year he gave a wonderfully inspiring talk at the TED conference speaking about classical music and attempting to open it up to the masses. His energy and stage presence are invaluable in achieving this goal. Check it out for yourself:

Johnny Lee – Wii Remote Hacks

scott — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:45:26 +0000

As revolutionary as the Wii experience has been to the gaming community, we have only begun to scratch the surface of what’s possible. Johnny Lee is a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University and over the past 6 months he has developed a number of innovative uses for the Wii remote, particularly taking advantage of its high resolution infrared camera.

Mr. Lee recently gave a talk at the TED conference where he demonstrated a few of these Wii-mote hacks. Probably the most impressive is the use of IR goggles to allow the software to provide 3D feedback based on the user’s motion. This could have huge implications for the future of 3D gaming.

For more information on these projects, check out the following links:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

http://www.wiimoteproject.com/

The Daily Show: Florida and Michigan at it again

scott — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:18:58 +0000

I caught this clip on The Daily Show last week and it just cracked me up.

Edit: The video has since been removed. Oh well, just imagine a funny Daily Show clip.

Just Words

scott — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:08:12 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cd-AJeJvBE