Pretty good speech:

9/16/2008 9:31:55 PM

1. Go TWWing

9/16/2008 9:32:13 PM

Take nude photos and post them on the interwebs.

9/16/2008 9:48:42 PM

^ stop picking on me, k?

9/16/2008 9:49:37 PM

I was talking about dangerous things to let kids do.

9/16/2008 9:51:13 PM

2.37 in and im done

9/16/2008 9:53:02 PM

loading and i am done.

9/16/2008 9:53:41 PM

not a very good presenter

9/16/2008 9:54:36 PM

play in the kitchen with all the poisonous chemicals

9/16/2008 10:05:04 PM

tl;dw

9/16/2008 10:05:34 PM

tl;fymi

9/16/2008 10:06:19 PM

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"2.37 in and im done"

I'll give you 2.37 in and be done..

9/16/2008 10:07:32 PM

not a very good presenter, but an amazing dude. kudos to him for de-pussifying kids and making them responsible and teaching them life skills.

gg TED.

9/16/2008 10:07:57 PM

wtf - just provide a list

9/16/2008 10:08:49 PM

^^ ha im pmed you about mr blanchard and macs and will and i running into him and just missing you but you never responded

9/16/2008 10:10:18 PM

play with fire
own a pocket knife
throw a spear
take apart appliances and other shit
drive a car


definitely did all that stuff as a kid

9/16/2008 10:10:59 PM

I miss the 1980's. I had a set and I think my mom threw them away.

9/16/2008 10:13:03 PM

i don't get the break digital media copyright laws thing. all an 8 yr old is gonna get out of that is that its ok to break the law.. That one seems more like that guy's personal agenda to me.

9/16/2008 10:21:46 PM

did all 5

9/16/2008 10:21:52 PM

Private prayer session with the local priest

9/16/2008 10:22:34 PM

agree with everyone here - great list, bad presenter.

i did all of that stuff as a kid, and I'm definitely the better for it. w/r/t #4 Even my kindergarden classroom, in 1985, had a corner dedicated to taking shit apart. It was great - there were typewriters and early computers and other appliances, and some basic tools, and during free time or whatever we could go over there and pay with old machines and take them apart. no way you would see that in a kindergarden class today.

I was just thinking about this kind of thing this morning, actually. On NPR this morning there was literally a 5-6 minute segment on a recall for a plastic soccer goal because the netting in the goal had 5" holes instead of 4" holes, and one toddler got his head stuck in it and strangled. Now, that's fine if they want to recall the item, but they talked about it for at least 5 minutes, interviewing parents, safety administrators, toy company executives, etc, when a simple 10 second PSA would have sufficed. No need in getting every parent in the country all in a tizzy because there is one more item, in a list that is literally infinite already, that a toddler could hurt himself on

9/16/2008 10:23:45 PM

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"i don't get the break digital media copyright laws thing. all an 8 yr old is gonna get out of that is that its ok to break the law.. That one seems more like that guy's personal agenda to me."

Agreed.

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"Even my kindergarden classroom, in 1985, had a corner dedicated to taking shit apart. It was great - there were typewriters and early computers and other appliances, and some basic tools, and during free time or whatever we could go over there and pay with old machines and take them apart. no way you would see that in a kindergarden class today."

Wow... that's awesome! Nowadays, there would be lawsuits flying left and right if they had something like that in schools. 'Tis a shame.

9/16/2008 10:35:40 PM

oh man I wonder if it is too late to apply for that TED internship

they're some good stuff

9/16/2008 11:44:02 PM

The review I found says these bounce. I'm sure I could take a drill and piece of steel and maybe fix that.

9/16/2008 11:47:26 PM

Grow up without a helmet!

9/16/2008 11:49:10 PM

be black

9/16/2008 11:53:10 PM