You may have noticed that I’m a big fan of the TED videos. TED releases a video or two just about every day. They range from 6 minutes to 20 minutes and they are all excellent. There’s a TED channel on Hulu, which I’ve of course subscribed to, you should too.

I also want to plug a great program called Hulu Desktop which is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux (Ubuntu and Fedora, both 32 and 64 bit), of course being the geek that I am I have a home theater PC (HTPC) running Kubuntu 11.04 (using KDE’s Plasma Desktop Shell’s Search and Launch layout) and it obviously has Hulu Desktop as one of it’s applications, even in the “Favorites” bar on the top.

Anyway, with the current TV season coming to a close, take some of the time that you would have spent watching TV and check out TED.

This video is very inspiring. Science and technology are two things that can’t be separated, they rely on each other to advance. Here’s a case where it can change lives:

Eythor Bender demos human exoskeletons | Video on TED.com

I have to admit that this one made me a little teary eyed. This kind of technology can do so much for people who have lost so much. To be able to walk for the first time in 19 years…wow.

I don’t think I’ve talked about my youngest nephew on the blog, but technology will soon change his life, giving him a small sense of normality. I’ll talk a little more about this another time.

(This is blog post #300!)