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  1. Re:Text books of course by Marsala · · Score: 1 · on Wikipedia's $100 Million Dream

    That's pretty much the concept behind the Connexions project. I'd suggest checking out Richard Baraniuk's TED Talk for more info. While there's not a lot of stuff up there now (as compared to what could be), it's a start.

    I would imagine that using part of that $100m to pay bounties for specific subjects, to help finance translating material to other languages, or coming up with a way to mix together the info in a multimedia format that could be easily integrated into Wikipedia would be, as the kids today say, "for teh win". :)

  2. Re:The music sucks by Henk+Poley · · Score: 1 · on Does File-Sharing Really Hurt the Music Biz?

    You remember the good stuff and forget the crap

    How true, see this excellent TED talk (the other talks are great too!):
    http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key =d_gilbert

    It also talks about how bad we are at predicting what will make use happier, and that it doesn't seem to matter anyways.

  3. proper keyboard layout. by uioreanu · · Score: 1 · on War Declared on Caps Lock Key
    The legend goes that the QWERTY keyboard was also made intentionally clumsy to slow down original typewriters that typed too fast and broke mechanical keyboards. Since we're proposing such a change, why not do it properly this time and create the proper optimum layout?

    In other news, the keyboard layout will never change. we're just too used to it, period. These are the lessons that we need to learn We might switch to a better system someday, like this one:

    Jeff Han on TED