Shonzilla, a pattern-seeking animal

Life is a game of patterns and chance, and those who play well will win.

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Sat Mar 14

“ Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body and no one calls her disabled.

Athlete, actor and activist Aimee Mullins talks about her prosthetic legs — she’s got a dozen amazing pairs — and the superpowers they grant her: speed, beauty, an extra 6 inches of height … Quite simply, she redefines what the body can be. She’s known as a Paralymic record holder in the 100-meter dash and the long jump. In 1999, she was a model on Alexander McQueen’s fashion show in London.

You can watch her presentation “How my legs give me super-powers” she gave at TED 2009 right here:

[via TED]

Wed Jul 16

Barry Schwartz talks about the Paradox of Choice (which is also the title of his book) explaining why you might be better off with lower expectations.

[via TEDtalksDirector]

Fri Jun 20

The most amazing story/experience you’ll hear in quite some time.

[via TED/YouTube]

Mon Feb 18

The Spore presentatation on TED

Yes, I finally stumbled upon this!

It’s the TED 2007 presentation by Will Wright, the author of Sim series of simulation games, titled “Toys that make worlds”. [via YouTube]

In the presentation, Will gives a tour-de-force review of his childhood education in a Montessori school and the impact it had on his life and, ultimatively, on this exciting game. Succintly, he calles The Spore game a “imagination amplifier”. Indeed it is!

Already getting anxious?

Yes? Then hold your ~~pants~~ mice until September 7 (this year) as it will when it will become available for PC, Macintosh, Nintendo DS and - mobile phones! :-)

Sun Feb 17

Here’s an interesting talk called “Our cell phones, ourselves” by Jan Chipchase, the principal researcher at Nokia, who is travelling the globe in the search of human behavior patterns in relationship to (mobile) communication and beyond. Alternatively, he’s called a (mobile) user anthropologist. The results of such research should affect the mobile communications in the next 3 to 15 years. [via TED]

It’s been an inspiring talk for me in a number of ways, and I hope it will be also for mobile and communication geeks among you. :-)