The Famous Speak In TED Talks

TED stands for Technology, Education, and Design.  This website posts great speeches about these topics.  Scanning through the TED Talks Website for people I knew...These were a few of the interesting speeches!

http://www.ted.com/talks/how_simple_ideas_lead_to_scientific_discoveries.html
Adam Savage from Myth Busters

http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html
The late Steve Jobs CEO of Apple and Pixar

http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs.html
Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs

http://www.ted.com/talks/roger_ebert_remaking_my_voice.html
Roger Ebert film critic

http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html
Bill Gates of Microsoft

http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_bird_s_one_man_orchestra_of_the_imagination.html
Andrew Bird musician

http://www.ted.com/talks/james_cameron_before_avatar_a_curious_boy.html
James Cameron director

http://www.ted.com/talks/al_gore_s_new_thinking_on_the_climate_crisis.html
Al Gore former Vice President

http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_hawking_asks_big_questions_about_the_universe.html
Stephen Hawking God hater

http://www.ted.com/talks/j_j_abrams_mystery_box.html
J.J. Abrams director

http://www.ted.com/talks/chris_anderson_of_wired_on_tech_s_long_tail.html
Chris Anderson from Wired Magazine

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_deutsch_on_our_place_in_the_cosmos.html
David Deutsch much more interesting than Stephen Hawking

I implore that everyone check out these speeches!

Prometheus; Viral Marketing

Over the past few years I have been getting into researching different things.  I like reading a lot about the study of numbers in relation to life, Numerology.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology  I have also been reading a lot of things by Nostradamus.  I guess I kind of get obsessed with things sometimes.  Obsessed in the way where I pound Red Bulls all night, forget to shave, and shower...What's a shower?  I am surprised that I was able to keep a girl friend through my college years because of all of this.

The biggest thing I went into researching was the film Cloverfield.  Now most of you will just remember this as the film that started the "shaky camera" craze or the film with that huge monster that attacked New York.  I saw it from the beginning.  The trailer was shown on TV, it was short and there was no name given to the film.  From there I started looking into it.  There were about 20 websites that opened up talking about the film before it started.  Websites that filled the viewer in on the story and why things were happening.  The main characters had www.myspace.com accounts running until the film started.  Even after the film started there were things hidden within that you could research.  There is still a rumor for the second film!  This is all besides the point though...

Now I am single, bored at work, and besides doing some photography I have no real motivation to be social or move my life forward.  I saw this.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQgnnsqysZE&feature=related  That was the trailer for the new film Prometheus.  It appears to be the prequel to the Alien movies that came out starting in the 70's.  My obsession did not start here.  It started after I was watching a bunch of TED Talks shows online.  (I implore everyone to look into these web shows.)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb7gspHxZiI&feature=relmfu  This one was clearly a mock show but it was very vague.  Talking about how man has become so much over the years.  Discovering and creating; from fire to becoming the "Gods" with recent technology.  At the end the man gave his name, I put it into http://www.google.com/ and the obsession started.  For all of you that may be interested, Google "Weyland" and enjoy the journey!