Assuming a. that you have this somewhat bizarre need, or b. that you are on my mailing list and will read pretty much anything I write, are there any quick fixes?
The answer is Ted Talks, used brilliantly by the marketeers of the Prometheus in creating a very successful pre-release buzz (despite the online marketeer's best intentions, this vid did not go viral). Ted Talks is a talking platform for some of the world's best speakers from the first world and can make you and instant intellectual.
Ted curates its best talks into playlists, and they also ask famous people like Ben Affleck to curate their best Talks.
And here an interesting tid-bit from the life of Sarah Silverman who is among the most disgustingly funny stand-up comedians I know:
Quoted from the Wikipedia Entry:
Ted curates its best talks into playlists, and they also ask famous people like Ben Affleck to curate their best Talks.
And here an interesting tid-bit from the life of Sarah Silverman who is among the most disgustingly funny stand-up comedians I know:
Quoted from the Wikipedia Entry:
TED drew some controversy in 2010 when comedian Sarah Silverman was invited to speak at the conference, and in response to her speech about adopting a "retarded" child, TED organizer Chris Anderson posted to his Twitter account, "I know I shouldn’t say this about one of my own speakers, but I thought Sarah Silverman was god-awful ..."Anderson later deleted his tweet, but Silverman responded via her Twitter account "Kudos to [Chris Anderson] for making TED an unsafe haven for all! You're a barnacle of mediocrity on Bill Gates' asshole."[46] Anderson apologized for his tweet on hisPosterous account, but also wrote "Call me stuffy, but I still think humor about terminally ill 'retarded' kids is an acquired taste ... And not a taste I personally want to acquire."[47]
So, a question to leave you new nerds with:
Is it okay to make fun of a disability?
