http://www.scottdunlap.com Big whoop, wanna fight about it? Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:58:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.scottdunlap.com/2008/07/17/benjamin-zander-classical-music-with-shining-eyes/ 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 ... http://www.scottdunlap.com/2008/04/18/johnny-lee-wii-remote-hacks/ I've recently become hooked on the TED Talks lecture series, and seeing as how their moniker is "Ideas worth spreading," I figure it would be prudent for me to do just that by providing a link and personal recommendation to the loyal reader(s) of my blog. If you're not already familiar ... http://www.scottdunlap.com/2008/03/18/ted-talks-ideas-worth-spreading/ I caught this clip on The Daily Show last week and it just cracked me up. http://www.scottdunlap.com/2008/03/08/the-daily-show-florida-and-michigan/ The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a ... http://www.scottdunlap.com/2008/02/26/einstein-and-faith/ Julian Beever is an English chalk artist who has been creating chalk drawings on pavement surfaces since the mid-1990s. His works are created using a projection called anamorphosis, and create the illusion of three dimensions when viewed from the correct angle. http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm This guy has an amazing ability to capture a three-dimensional ... http://www.scottdunlap.com/2008/02/20/julian-beever-pavement-artist/ I was at Barnes & Noble today. Check out what I happened to stumble upon: This is the semi-official fan book of the movie The Big Lebowski written by the founding dudes of Lebowski Fest, Will Russell and Scott Shuffit (whom I have met personally), as well as Bill Green and ... http://www.scottdunlap.com/2008/02/17/im-a-lebowski-youre-a-lebowski/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cd-AJeJvBE http://www.scottdunlap.com/2008/02/17/just-words/ I recently started using an open source internet video player called Miro (www.getmiro.com), and I have to say so far I'm pretty impressed. Out of the box it starts you off with an extensive channel guide that lets you browse and search from a huge list of internet video feeds ... http://www.scottdunlap.com/2008/02/14/miro/ It pleases me to announce the grand re-opening of ScottDunlap.com! Very little work or effort went into building this site, and I couldn't be more pleased with how it turned out. Congratulations to everyone involved (me) who helped make this launch such a success. http://www.scottdunlap.com/2008/01/26/hello-world/