Back in August, I have a talk at Gnomedex, a conference about the intersection of technology and people. It’s thrown by my old buddy Chris Pirillo. My talk was on skepticism, and I posted some video from it a month ago. However, the audio quality wasn’t great.
The good news is Chris posted the official stream from the conference, and the video and audio quality are great! So here’s that video.
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November 11th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Phil Plait: “Back in August, I have a talk at Gnomedex…”
That should be past tense: had, not “have”.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Anyone else notice how many macbooks there were?
November 11th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Chris Pirillo’s a Mac fan, though not necessarily a fanatic. I help friends with Macs on occasion, but I prefer Windows.
November 11th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Just thought I’d give you a news tip: http://www.universetoday.com/2009/11/09/surprise-unknown-asteroid-buzzed-earth/
November 12th, 2009 at 1:07 am
Any downloadable version?
November 12th, 2009 at 5:27 am
@ Ivan3man (1) – I was thinking “gave” rather than “had”. Either way, methinks ’tis a typo.
November 12th, 2009 at 6:53 am
I have just a small note; Uri Geller’s first name is pronounced Oori, not a Yuri
November 12th, 2009 at 7:09 am
@ Nigel Depledge,
Yeah, now that you’ve mentioned it, that should be gave, not “have”. Either that or it’s some sort of funny American English.
November 12th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Phil, I’m sitting in a jury room in downtown Atlanta and decided to see what’s on your site, and I found this. It’s a great talk you “have”, and very educational and entertaining! I have now met several of the people you speak of, and this skepticism thing might catch on. (Boy – how many grammatical errors can you cite in THAT sentence?)
Sooner will be better than later.
November 12th, 2009 at 10:40 am
That’s great, except playing a film clip of a film clip winds up being unintelligible. So the beginning is hard to figure out what the talk is going to be about because I cannot understand more than about one word out of twenty that is being said.
November 12th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
The talk mentions the MythBuster’s light bulb myth and mentions that they forgot something during their analysis, what is that “something” (curious because I really enjoyed that particular segment)
November 13th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
5. Sunny Ng Says:
Any downloadable version?
Shhh.. don’t let anyone else know, but Firefox has add-ons that can download video files such as on YouTube.. I installed ‘Download Helper’, and have collected lots of movie trailers both to go with movies I have via my DVR (ReplayTV, FYI… yes, they’re still around).
J/P=?