Author Archives: James Cullin
Samsung’s Android tablet
This looks interesting … Image courtesy of Samsung
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Bill Gates on Salman Khan: “I kind of envy him.”
On the road this week. So this post about Salman Khan is more or less a marker for a longer post this fall.
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Twenty hours of material is uploaded to YouTube every minute
Ted Talks are almost always interesting. I found Margaret Stewart’s 6 minute talk entitled “How YouTube thinks about copyright” particularly interesting: The factoid “twenty hours of material is uploaded to YouTube every minute” is related just after the 2 minute … Continue reading
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Humans trading is 10 times older then agriculture
Prior to watching this TEDGlobal 2010 talk by Matt Ridley I was unaware that humans began trading among different tribes some 100,000 years ago:
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Thursday August 19, 2010 – 1000 hours
Syracuse, New York
Attending my sister’s citizenship ceremony this morning: View Larger Map More details to follow.
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Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2014
I’ll post this link now as a marker for a longer post later in the month.
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Angelina Jolie cameo in 1997 Rolling Stones video
Turns out that Angelina Jolie made a fairly substantial cameo in The Rolling Stones video for “Anybody Seen My Baby?”
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We’re 38th
Toronto ranks 38th on this year’s Global Fashion Capitals list as determined by The Global Language Monitor. Evidently this is the first time Toronto has appeared on the list. The other North American cities on the list are: New York … Continue reading
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