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When a Problem Comes Along, You Must Whip It

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When a problem comes along
You must whip it
Before the cream sits out too long
You must whip it
When something's going wrong
You must whip it

now whip it
into shape
shape it up
get straight
go forward
move ahead
try to detect it
it's not too late
to whip it
whip it good
Whip It by Devo 1980

You got problems? We got solutions ... yet another thing the Web is really really good at is putting together people and ideas, in the end, isn't this what problem solving is all about? Where do we go for cutting edge problem solving? Where else, but Monterrey, CALIFORNIA!!

Check out this website, which makes it their overarching goal to solve problems...on Technology, Entertainment, Design, thus, TED - see About TED.

TED was born in 1984 out of the observation by Richard Saul Wurman of a powerful convergence between Technology, Entertainment and Design. The first TED included demos of the newly released Macintosh computer and Sony compact disc, while mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot demonstrated how to map coastlines with his newly discovered fractals and AI guru Marvin Minsky outlined his powerful new model of the mind. Several influential members of the burgeoning digerati community were also there, including Nicholas Negroponte and Stewart Brand.

But despite the stellar lineup, the event lost money, and it was six years before Wurman and his partner Harry Marks tried again. This time, the world was ready and the numbers worked. TED has been held regularly in Monterey, California, ever since, attracting a growing and influential audience from many different disciplines united by their curiosity, open-mindedness, a desire to think outside the box ... and also by their shared discovery of an exciting secret. (TED was always an invitation-only event; it never had an advertising budget or a PR campaign.)

Posted on January 29, 2008 at 08:16 PM

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