Allison Hunt: How I got my new hip

http://www.ted.com When Allison Hunt found out that she needed a new hip — and that Canadas national health care system would require her to spend nearly 2 years on a waiting list (and in pain) — she took matters into her own hands.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes — including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

July S.F. Bay Area MySQL Users Group Meeting – Tim Kay

Tim presents the architecture that he designed for one of his clients. The system collects data from thousands of cell phones and matches the data acoustically with reference data that is collected via a different process.
The requirements include data integrity but not high availability, so he was able to compromise in a way that significantly reduced cost and complexity.

Google Germany: AdWords brings new customers (Short Version)

On July 16, 2007 over 100 German Googlers demonstrated that
Google AdWords can bring new customers in a very unique way.
They literally brought the new customers, which were represented by
colorful figures, to a map and travel bookstore in Hamburg. They
came on foot, by bike, by boat, by skateboard, and by many other creative means.