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TED is a yearly conference where people with influence in technology, entertainment and design come together to exchange ideas and points of view. The biggest force behind TED is curator Chris Anderson, who has been involved in online and print media since 1985.

Organizing such a conference is not something to take lightly and the TED-sters have a great deal of work ahead of them each year. In order to do it in a great working atmosphere, Anderson decided to hire Dutch designer Ghislaine Viñas, who designed this great looking office. This is so much more attractive then those dull desks or cubicles put together (although, that Dilbert’s Ultimate Cubicle is nice).

There seems to be a trent towards creating interesting offices. Just look at the offices of Pixar (little scrolling down), Soyuznick Bank or Autodesk.

Having to deal with shipments every day isn’t the most exciting thing that comes with my job, but there’s a little perk that comes with it. That’s the kind of plastics which are used to protect the items. Before you declare me a complete lunatic, here’s what I mean. There’s this plastic protection that has little balls filled with air in it. If you twist the plastic just the right way, you get this nice plopping sound. Needless to say, that plastic doesn’t have a long life once it gets into my or my collegues hands.

But we don’t have to anticipate shipments any longer, because now, we can virtually plop away!!!

Thanks to Viv for the link.

I’ve blogged about Web 2.0 (office) applications before and in order to give a bit of an update, here’s a large list of Web 2.0 products and services. Use for your own pleasure.

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You think that in a world where all those CSI‘s rule the TV airwaves, criminals would become a bit smarter in how to be succesfull in doing their crime. Apparantly (and luckily for us victims) they don’t.

You still have to wonder what goes through this kind of burglar’s head. Why would he not want to get out of the house he’s robbing? Make off with the loot. Why would he think it’s a good idea to eat, shower, change clothes and watch tv and maybe some other leisure activities? Why would he not even log out of his own mail account? Although, if it was not his own he could implicate someone else, thus moving suspicion away from him, making him, well, a criminal mastermind of some sorts. But still, wouldn’t it be the smarter thing to do to do your crime and then leave the scene, not running more risk of getting caught in the act? Or to leave as little evidence as possible? Or does this just show that your writer has no sense of crime whatsoever and should not quit his day job and persue a life of crime?

Anyway, for more fun with stupidity by criminals, follow this link.