[SGVLUG] OT: TED talks / hydrogen fuel, etc.

[Harold Totten]

I also visited the site.  I had never heard of it.  I saw something about
poverty and went to the Bill Strickland presentation.
Bill Strickland: Rebuilding America, one slide show at a time
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/209

Thanks Chris.  I've bookmarked it.

Harold


On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Emerson, Tom (*IC) <
Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message----- Of Chris Louden
> >
> > Recently I began listening/watching various TED talks
> > (http://www.ted.com). I have been getting them from iTunes as
> > they are available for FREE.
>
> "right now", there is an item on that page labelled "ideas from our
> sponsor" which when clicked brings up a standalone window to play the
> video.  The discussion is about hydrogen as a fuel and what "we" [as a
> world] have to do to make it's use a reality.  Unfortunately, the "link"
> is
>
> http://www.ted.com/#
>
> Which you'll note is actually the main page itself -- doing a little
> digging into the page source, I found:
>
> http://static.videoegg.com/ted/movies/KLAUSTOPFER_high.flv
>
> And
>
> http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/fullscreen.html, which should load
> the player along with the video...
>
> As it is a "sponsored" video, the last minute or so is a BMW ad for
> their hydrogen car, which is a typical car advert -- great scenery, zero
> information save for the name of the car itself...
>
>


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