Internet Moments

Would you like to know how to make pizza dough?  How about learning how to change the oil in a car or balance a checkbook?  There is an amazing list of things you can learn online.  eHow.com is a website that makes it easy to learn just about anything.

eHow.com is an online community that strives to give people a place where they can reasearch, discuss and share all kinds of knowledge with anyone.  According to their about page they have accumulated over 1.5 million articles and 150,000 videos that were created by experts and ordinary people.   If you have something to contribute you can join the eHow Community also.

Take some time out of your day and learn something new today at eHow.com.

Bored?  Looking for something to do?  How about taking some time to patrol the Texas border?  The Texas Border Sherif’s Coalition would love to have your help as a “Virtual Texas Deputy”.  Using a $2 million dollar grant from the Governor of Texas they contracted a private company called Blue Servo to create a website where ordinary people can log on and watch the border using strategically placed webcams.  Once you set-up an account and log in you can choose the camera(s) you’d like to watch and begin your “patrol”.  Each camera comes with instructions on what to look for and how to report anything suspicious  annonymously.  Here are some examples of what they’ve seen.

Give it a try!  Live the dream of being a Virtual Texas Deputy:
TexasBorderWatch.com

Composed and Conducted by
ERIC WHITACRE
“Lux Aurumque”

This original composition went live on YouTube on March 21st, 2010.   You can read about previous projects and the development of this virtual choir at Eric Whitacre’s Offical Blog.

TED stands for “Technology Entertainment Design” and was started in 1984 as a conference that brought people from those three fields together.  Originally held annually in Long Beach, California, “TED Talks” are also held in Oxford, England (TEDGlobal) and in Mysore, India (TEDIndia) for the first time in 2009. 

At their website: TED.com “the best talks and performances from TED and partners available to the world, for free.” (AboutTED).   It’ well worth a few minutes of your day to check out he talks at TED.com sometime today.

A Random Sampling of TED Talks to consider:  Gary Lauder’s New Traffic Sign, Pattie Maes Demonstrates the Sixth Sense, Hans Rosling’s New Insights on Poverty, Jill Bolte Taylor’s Stroke of Insight, and Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Augmented-Reality Maps.