Instant messaging with Thom just now:
me: random: i wonder how one attends that TED conference… i keep seeing clips of really interesting talks from different years
Thom: Yeah, I know… it’s by invite only, but I would dearly love to go
me: do you have to be a mover and a shaker?
Thom: Neither of us are important enough
Except to each other, of course 🙂 And to our mothers.
And I’m not sure about the latter.
me: yes, i’m having our mothers write us letters of recommendation
“please extend my son an invitation to the idea conference. he has ideas. though i’m not sure what they are. or if i would agree with them, if i knew what they were.”
Thom: ROFL!
me: 🙂
Anyway, here’s a TED talk I came across a while back that’s really cool: Blaise Aguera y Arcas with a demo of Photosynth, which forms spatial relationships among large numbers of photos to create a three-dimensional space. (It’s not supported for Mac, unfortunately.)