With the motto “Ideas worth spreading”, TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) has been putting on conferences for over twenty years to bring together brilliant people from these three industries.

Launched in 2007, their website features over 200 TEDTalk videos, which are 18 minute “Inspired talks by the world’s leading thinkers and doers”. Wow!!! These aren’t your ordinary “how-to” videos presented by teenage girls in their bedrooms – nonono, TED is like the Lincoln Center of YouTube. Part personal storytelling/part motivational speech TED is The Moth with a point.

And now thanks to video, we can all sit at the table with the cool kids! TED rolls with people like: former VP Al Gore, THE Jane Goodall, and neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Tayler. We’ve also got the class nerds and band geeks such as: Johnny Lee (who actually was a YouTube star) hacking into Wii remote controls before our very eyes, Sir Ken Robert talking about how the school system is killing creativity (whaaaa???), David Gallo showing us phosphorescent creatures of the deep and Nellie McKay performing some songs on piano and uke (though she doesn’t actually give a speech, as I don’t think anyone could sit through 18 minutes of someone talking in a 1930s voice).

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Here’s the latest American Idol Recap of lackluster auditions in Jacksonville, FL, where only 16 tickets to Hollywood were given out.  However, at least we got to see hilarious footage of a mohawked Randy Jackson in his days as a bassist for the band Journey: WOOOOOOOOOOOW This episode of ‘American Idol’ starts off with some great [...]

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Review of Papcitos Mexican street food in

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Jen Kwok premieres her first music video, BREAKFAST, a parody of Britney Spears’ Circus

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What it’s like to move to New York City

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Jen Kwok talks about her first comedy show of 2009 at Rivers of Honey – and the crazy cab ride home.

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Jen Kwok is on CNN’s The Situation Room regarding her recent layoff and job search.

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Why Jen Kwok is glad that she dyed her pink hair back to black.

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President Bush doesn’t have to worry about his soul

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OK so now that I have two blogs about Yo Gabba Gabba! I must, by default, make a Yo Gabba Gabba! category.  So anyway, I had posted the Yo Gabba Gabba!  (I just like typing those words!) blog, and my friend Sam said that before she even knew about my Yo Gabba Gabba! (see what [...]

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