In My Humble Opinion... (IMHO)

Mikko Hypponen: Three types of online attack

2012-01-22T12:38:00.000-08:00

Cybercrime expert Mikko Hypponen talks us through three types of online attack on our privacy and data -- and only two are considered crimes.

Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)

2012-01-22T12:29:00.000-08:00

What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto -- a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume.

Best of CES Awards 2012

2012-01-22T12:08:00.000-08:00

CNET once again presents the official awards program of CES. The awards recognize the best products at the show, including a Best of Show award and a People's Voice award, as voted by the CNET audience. (Source)

Dirt Bike Riding Snow-Covered Mountain Tops

2012-01-22T12:02:00.001-08:00

Riding Grand Junction, Colorado's snow-covered mountain tops.

Infographic: Geeks vs. Nerds

2012-01-22T12:00:00.000-08:00

In the ongoing battle between geek and nerd, one must take sides, but how can this be done without a solid argument for both personas? We here at Masters In IT (a mix of nerds and geeks) decided that it's time to lay all the cards on the table to determine which is better and answer the question some fear to know: Are you a geek, or a nerd? (Source)

Sheena Iyengar: How to make choosing easier (Avoiding Choice Overload)

2012-01-22T10:16:00.000-08:00

We all want customized experiences and products -- but when faced with 700 options, consumers freeze up. With fascinating new research, Sheena Iyengar demonstrates how businesses (and others) can improve the experience of choosing. (Source)

LaGreca, O'Neill, Suskind: The Rise and Fall of Wall St.

2012-01-21T16:45:00.000-08:00

"Ron Suskind, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author, Paul O’Neill, the famously candid Treasury Secretary under George W. Bush and a 2008 adviser to Barack Obama, and Jesse LaGreca (blogger and writer for Daily Kos and Occupy Wall Street activist) meet for a high-voltage conversation about the rise, fall and bailout of Wall Street, the perils of speaking truth to power, and the tough choices ahead for America." (Source)

Great Moments Of 2011

2012-01-19T17:55:00.000-08:00

A compilation of clips from 2011

The Day The LOLcats Died - #SOPA #PIPA Protest Song

2012-01-19T17:54:00.000-08:00

SOPA and PIPA are two examples of recent legislation that is lethal to the internet as we know it. The internet rose up and is on its way to successfully fighting them off, but we need to stay vigilant.

The only way to prevent legislation like this from being passed in the future is to call your Congressmen and tell them. Make it clear that you don't support SOPA, you don't support PIPA, and that you won't support future legislation that damages the stability of the internet.

For more information, visit:

http://www.SeattleAgainstSOPA.com

http://bit.ly/lifeaftersopa

http://stopcensorship.org/

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p-TV4jaCMk)

Samsung's Smart Window (CES 2012)

2012-01-19T17:48:00.000-08:00

Check out the "Smart Window" technology at the Samsung booth at CES 2012.

Digital Carpet - Interactive Digital Signage

2012-01-19T17:45:00.000-08:00

I really like the idea of "Digital Carpet" as a user interface. This video is two years old, and I am surprised the concept has not taken off. I can really see a million applications for this technology, especially for children's learning and game software.

Fotoshop by Adobé (Funny Fake Commercial)

2012-01-16T20:10:00.000-08:00

This commercial isn't real, neither are society's standards of beauty.

Why Some Women Stay Single

2012-01-16T20:08:00.000-08:00

Does YOUR cat act suspiciously when Valentine's Day comes around?

Mieders Alpine Coaster (with no brakes!!)

2012-01-16T20:06:00.000-08:00

This is a single-pipe alpine coaster in Mieders, Austria. You reach the summit via a cablecar and then sit on a small car with a brake lever and off you go.

Cat Plays Fruit Ninja on iPad

2012-01-08T18:04:00.001-08:00

How Tower Crane Are Setup

2012-01-08T14:46:00.000-08:00

Tower Crane always seem to be part of almost any metropolitan cityscape that I have been too. These cranes are a critical tool in the construction of modern skyscrapers. Although for years I wondered how they were setup. I answered my own question by spending a few minutes to do a YouTube search.

30-story building built in 15 days*** Construction time lapse

2012-01-08T14:39:00.000-08:00

From the YouTube Description:" What can you accomplish in 360 hours?

The Chinese sustainable building company, Broad Group, has yet attempted another impossible feat, building a 30-story tall hotel prototype in 360 hours, after building a 15-story building in a week earlier in 2011.

You may ask why in a hurry, and is it safe? The statistics in the video can put you in good faith. Prefabricated modular buildings has many advantages over conventional buildings.

Higher precision in fabrication (+/- 0.2mm).
More coordinated on-site construction management.
Shorter construction time span.
Lower construction waste.
Also many other health and energy features are included in Broad Sustainable Buildings (BSB)

The building was built over last Christmas time and finished before New Years Eve of 2012."

Taking Out GE's Trash

2012-01-07T10:29:00.001-08:00

Deals with overcoming the challenges of converting trash from a waste stream back into reusable materials.

Best of Web HD

2012-01-05T20:41:00.000-08:00

A compilation of the best HD video in recent months.

Speeding Around The World in Under 5 minutes Time Lapse

2012-01-05T20:39:00.000-08:00

17 Countries. 343 Days. 6237 Photographs.

Why Cities Grow, Corporations Die, and Life Gets Faster

2011-12-24T17:38:00.000-08:00

Summary: As organisms, cities, and companies scale up, they all gain in efficiency, but then they vary. The bigger an organism, the slower. Yet the bigger a city is, the faster it runs. And cities are structurally immortal, while corporations are structurally doomed. Scaling up always creates new problems; cities can innovate faster than the problems indefinitely, while corporations cannot.

IMHO: Its a long video but has some great information about how cities and corporation grow and die.

Will We Ever Understand the Brain?

2011-12-24T12:36:00.000-08:00

Summary: "As neuroscientists are learning more and more about our body's hidden frontier, we have gained fleeting insights into our own intuition, habits and seemingly unexplainable preferences. Can we solve those mysteries by creating a complete computer model of our brain? Or, is the brain an unsolvable puzzle? Two leading neuroscientists discuss these question and more as we look into the neurology of the brain."

African Bull Frog Plays Ant Crusher

2011-12-23T06:02:00.000-08:00

The video is of an African Bull Frog playing the Ant Crusher game on a smart phone.

"Firewall" (Don't Let Our Government Ruin The Internets)

2011-12-22T21:51:00.000-08:00

Leah Kauffman wrote this song taking aim at the Stop Online Piracy Act (aka SOPA). She is also the singer/songwriter behind the 2007 song "I Got a Crush on Obama".

Kindness Boomerang - "One Day"

2011-12-22T18:33:00.000-08:00

Watch as the camera tracks an act of kindness as its passed from one individual to the next and manages to boomerang back to the person who set it into motion.