I really like this site because it really open my mind about a lot of things like Afrika, brain, and nature. Yes, you have to have a lot of bandwidth available if you want to download 5-30 minutes of their clips. TED (Technology Entertainment Design) is an annual conference that defines its mission as “ideas worth spreading”, and the best talks given at TED are made available to the public for free on its website. Its lectures cover a broad set of topics including science, arts, design, politics, global issues, architecture, music and more.

My favorite talks including :

• Helen Fisher talks about why we love, cheat
• James Nachtwey searing pictures of war
• Isabel Allende tells tale of passion
• Eve Ensler on happines body and soul
• Karen Armstrong talks about the charter of compassion
• Seth Godin on sliced bread
• Jonathan Harris tells web’s secret stories
• Lakhsmi Praturi on Letter Writing
• Vilayanur Ramachandran on your mind
• Rives on 4 am

I have downloaded most of the talks. It’s really an eye opener for me. And i hope you feel it too. There’s no indonesian speaker, but i really hope it will be soon.

TED

What is Brijit anyway?

Brijit aggregates the world’s best long-form content and abstracts it in 100 words or less, providing busy, omnivorous, and increasingly mobile readers with rich, qualitative summaries as well as better guideposts for what to read, watch or listen to now. We produce these abstracts in concert with our readers, as one community of readers, writers and editors. Think of us as your well-read friend who leads you to that can’t miss article, video clip or product.

Why does brijit even exist?

We wish deep down that we were the kind of people who could read the Economist AND the New Yorker cover-to-cover every week, watch the Sunday morning political shows, and never miss an hour of This American Life. But we’re not. And chances are, neither are you. Because who’s got the time? And that’s why we’re building Brijit. Our mission is simple: make it easy for all of us to discover and access the world’s best content, quickly, inexpensively and on our own terms.

It’s a very good alternative for someone who didn’t have time or money to read all magazine. I’ve subscribed some of theirs, like The Huffington Post, Newsweek, and, everybody’s favorite, O Magazine.

Brijit

Eventhough this site is written in English, but that doesn’t mean we don’t care about Indonesian language. Our language is full of diversity in words and phrases and the only site that have (almost) all the words and meaning is Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia Dalam Jaringan (KBBI Daring). It’s an official site from Pusat Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan Nasional. The interface is quite simple. Just a search box and type the word you want to find out the meaning.

One thing that it lacks of is the meaning for words that used in Information Technology. There’s only one meaning of the word unduh (and it’s about marriage and not about downloading), unggah (not about uploading) and there’s no entries for sandikata (password).

KBBI Daring

This movie is an eye opener or somewhat a good wake up call for every consumer in this planet. It describes a complete process from the extraction of resources to dumping the toxic waste in the end. What’s important in this movie includes :

1. The Golden Arrow of Consumption
2. We only kept 1% of our consumption.
3. Externalized Cost

This 20 minutes clip points toward America, but as citizens in third world country, which also somewhat consume our own resources, we must slow down this linear process before we need five more earths.

The Story of Stuff

If you think your password is strong and cannot be easily guessed, think again. Because my current password that has 15 characters just scored 0% on the passwordmeter because it contains number only and a lot of repetition.

Passwordmeter contain several parameter to judge your password based on strength (character, number, symbol combination) and weakness (repetition, word only, number only). It’s a good start to create your password that cannot easily cracked, but don’t forget that you should remember your password as well.

And as for my password, i already change it to 9 character but scored amazing 100% and it easy to remember as well.

passwordmeter