a little bit of background, seeing as this is the first video update:
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and (in my own words) is a conference held somewhere in california every year or so where really smart, passionate people have 5 to 20 minutes to talk about what they've been doing their entire lives. It serves as a way for people to get to know how awesome it is to be geeky and how geeky it is to be awesome. This used to be a closed pow-wow, but some smart, passionate person decided that they were going to release the TED talks to the general (youtube) public. The average presenter will get about 4,000 to 20,000 views, while some superstars (Tony Robbins, Al Gore, Stephen Hawking) have some viable cross-over appeal the subscriber base (TEDtalks total number of subscribers sits at about 31,000... which if you're counting, means that most subscribers won't watch TED at all... ouch).
In any case, this is an awesome, awesome ethnographic (maybe?) presentation on 1) the prevalence of chinese food in american culinary history 2) the fact that american chinese food is not really chinese food at all (i don't mean cats) and 3) the success of chinese food as a common option in american food choice is the result of a decentralized, linux-like, user-based model.
A real joy to watch (especially at 1:40 when she asks chinese citizens for their take on a fortune cookie)
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