Ellington

Just saw an alert via gMail that TED Talks have been made available online -- if ever there was a good excuse to sit and watch video on your computer (or download podcasts or video podcasts to take advantage of some of that newfangled technology you've paid for), this might be it. TED Talks is (are?) an elite conference held in California each year to bring together the top thinkers and speakers on a variety of futurist and cultural ideas. The videos available range from talks on the current state of cutting-edge physics to the future of computing to anthropology to the next wave of Internet technologies to sustainable community development. Check it out.