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Clifford Stoll's TED Talk
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/237I watched a documentary about Clifford Stoll catching Russian hacker spies when I was in High School or Junior High, and it was pretty much the most amazing thing in the world to me. I don't credit Stoll for inspiring my desire to do the internets, but he definitely played a roll in making me think that this was something that was really interesting.
Watching his TED talk, I realize that he could have been talking about anything and made me want to spend my life pursuing whatever it was. I really, really, really hope that I end up like this guy one day.
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benbrown
on Thursday, Mar 27th
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Corey Hart said, (49 days ago)
http://www.edge.org/digerati/stoll/index.html
I couldn't agree more with his opinions, but consumating is proof that the internet can actually bring people together in the real world.
malloreigh said, (48 days ago)
TED always reminds me of Buffy's robotic almost-Stepfather. Does that make me more or less of a total geek loser?
Lams said, (48 days ago)
That sounds a lot better than Clifford Stoll's STD Talk. THAT was tough to sit through!
Lams said, (48 days ago)
ok wait check THIS out. When I first saw the name of your post I thought of that joke right away so I clicked over here to post it - but I guess I also had opened that link itself. This Bassnectar song was playing in another window (on Pandora) and I thought that his TED talk was part of the Bassnectar song. It went along with it perfectly! I was sitting there listening to it thinking "Wow, I wish I could find something as cool as this to put into one of my songs." Then after about a minute of that I realized what was going on.
BAM!! That's my next song.
Reamworks SKG said, (48 days ago)
Ok! I just watched Cliff Stoll. This guy is in serious need of medication to control his Aspergers. And a hair cut.
Reamworks SKG said, (48 days ago)
And he uses Oprah-like tricks in his spiel:
"Let's hear it for Kindergarten Teachers!"
"Bob Moog died! Let's give him a round of applause"
"I volunteer to teach! Give me some claps!"
etc.
adam_alligator said, (48 days ago)
@ben:
OFF-TOPIC!!!
What was the saturday morning cartoon show you wrote for???
adam_alligator said, (46 days ago)
HAH. I watched Squirt...
This information has blown my mind, Ben.
I stopped watching when they got a new host.
Very interesting guy. I'm about 5 minutes in. I like him.