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Ed Ulbrich shows how Benjamin Button got his face | Video on TED.com: “Ed Ulbrich, the digital-effects guru from Digital Domain, explains the Oscar-winning technology that allowed his team to digitally create younger and older versions of Brad Pitt’s face for ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.’”

Chamomile Tea | LuisRei.com: “Chamomile Tea

ACTUAL COLLEGE THEME PAPER - HEY I COULDN’T MAKE THIS UP
Remember the book “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”?
Well, here’s a prime example offered by an English professor
at an American University.”

Social Graph API - Google Code: “Social”

Social Graph: Concepts and Issues - ReadWriteWeb: “Brad Fitzpatrick recently wrote an elegant and important post about the Social Graph, a term used by Facebook to describe their social network. In his post, Fitzpatrick defines ’social graph’ as ‘the global mapping of everybody and how they’re related’. He went on to outline the problems with it, as well as a broad set of goals going forward.”

YouTube - Tony Robbins - Best Story Ever - Inspired a Pimp!: “Tony Robbins - Best Story Ever - Inspired a Pimp!”

David Merrill demos Siftables, the smart blocks | Video on TED.com: “MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables — cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?”

Google Reader (1000+): “Popout
(YouTube link)
edited by Matt Adams / song by Tyler Walker

For our latest mission, Agent Lathan gave out 2,000 high fives by standing next to a subway escalator during the morning rush. Five additional agents spread out along the adjacent stairs, holding signs that prepared commuters for the upcoming high five fun. Enjoy the video first and then check out the mission report and photos below.”

How to make a flexible display | Bend me, shape me, anyway you want me | The Economist: “The crucial technological development happened recently at the Flexible Display Centre at Arizona State University. Using a novel lithographic process invented by HP Labs, the research arm of Hewlett-Packard, and an electronic ink produced by E Ink, a company spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the centre’s researchers succeeded in printing flexible displays onto long rolls of a special plastic film made by DuPont. To make individual screens, the printed film is sliced up into sections rather as folios for magazines or newspapers would be cut from a printed web of paper.”

IBM Research: Dynamic Infrastructure for a Smarter Planet: “Dynamic Infrastructure for a Smarter Planet

Amazon Mechanical Turk: “Amazon Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence. The Mechanical Turk web service enables companies to programmatically access this marketplace and a diverse, on-demand workforce. Developers can leverage this service to build human intelligence directly into their applications.”