Presentations and documents tagged “igniteportland”
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13 Kate Folsom: the basics of writing good shit...
from igniteportland, posted 8 months ago in Technology. 1044 views
Forget everything your teachers taught you in school and listen close: it's not about knowing how to diagram a sentence or tell the difference between elusion, illusion and allusion. Writing well is about getting ideas across in a way...
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12 Russell Senior: Why Publicly Owned Fiber is...
from igniteportland, posted 8 months ago in Technology. 1139 views
Today, most broadband services are controlled by large corporations with large, visible advertising campaigns. Those same large corporations have mixed motives, that don't necessarily align with their customers. Furthermore, they are decrea...
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11 J-P Voilleque: Not your grandma's game: Why ...
from igniteportland, posted 8 months ago in Technology. 643 views
There are 53,644,737,765,488,792,839,237,440,000 possible deals in contract bridge. If that's not enough to get your coder brain racing, consider this: bridge is a universal language (with regional dialects!), creates conversation, and is o...
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10 Tara Horn: How to be a Refugee: Several not-...
from igniteportland, posted 8 months ago in Technology. 592 views
More than 30 million people are living in exile worldwide. Maybe 30,000 people make it to the US in any given year through the refugee resettlement program. How do people go from living their lives to living in exile to resettlement in a fo...
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14 Chris Sullivan: Ham Radio: It's not about ta...
from igniteportland, posted 8 months ago in Technology. 614 views
Amateur radio is still alive and well, and coming into the 21st Century as a playground for the technically curious. In addition to the work hams do in disaster relief communications, there is a lot of place for experimentation and learning...
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18 Pete Grillo: Everything about Omelettes
from igniteportland, posted 8 months ago in Technology. 681 views
I have made lots of omelettes. Like maybe over 1,000. I make them for friends in small groups and I've made them in large groups - the most being 88 in one setting. I've run crews of 8 making omelettes. I know my omelettes. So I thought it ...
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15 Sarah Gilbert: Hacking life with kids, but w...
from igniteportland, posted 8 months ago in Technology. 569 views
Variously considered a right, a responsibility, and the only status symbol that counts, here in America, cars 'R us. My family decided one day to go against that grain and we gave up our car, suddenly and without warning. Over the ensuing t...
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16 Jerry Ketel: How to know if you are a Narcis...
from igniteportland, posted 8 months ago in Technology. 663 views
Having worked for many self-important people in the past, Mr. Ketel, shows the difference between mere vanity and true narcissism. He will show how to placate narcissists but most importantly, how to spot one and avoid them all together.
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17 Selena Decklemann: How to kill three chicken...
from igniteportland, posted 8 months ago in Technology. 534 views
Chickens are awesome. They're cute. They give you eggs. They eat slugs.
And the sound that they make when they are being eaten alive by raccoons is unforgettable.
Follow Selena on her journey through three years of tending chickens in Por...
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08 John Metta: How to creatively destroy pesky,...
from igniteportland, posted 8 months ago in Technology. 521 views
Many people in Portland are involved in technology start-ups or other potential money making opportunities. One problem PDXers face is that their sense of community involvement often forces them to partake in non-moneymaking side projects t...
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09 Ip5 Angel Venable: Fashion! Music! Intrigue!...
from igniteportland, posted 8 months ago in Technology. 529 views
Did you know there are more reasons to take the bus besides that warm feeling you get by considering yourself more environmentally-conscious than the next person? You don't have to buy a magazine to see the latest fashion do's and don'ts, o...
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06 Isaac Potoczny-Jones: Open, Mobile, and Linu...
from igniteportland, posted 8 months ago in Technology. 649 views
Android is a Linux-based open source operating system by Google that can be used to power smart phones like TMobile's G1. It's a very open platform, and easy to develop software for. Isaac will give an overview of the development environmen...
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04 Aaron Hockley: Reading the Fine Print: You G...
from igniteportland, posted 8 months ago in Technology. 391 views
As everyone becomes a creator of online content, we are all using large social networks such as Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, WordPress, Blogspot, Myspace, SmugMug, and others. All of these sites have some sort of terms or license agreement, a...
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07 Jayson Falkner: Science. It works, bitches. ...
from igniteportland, posted 8 months ago in Technology. 508 views
This talk is all about DNA and you'd better cope with it. Science isn't the art of making things up so that math and biology classes are justified. Rather science is all about observing reproducible phenomena in the world. DNA is something ...
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03 Jim Ayala: The Universe Story
from igniteportland, posted 8 months ago in Technology. 620 views
This talk is about the story of the unfolding universe (13.7 billion years) and how we, as a species, on the Earth (6.7+/- billion years old), are very, very recent arrivals in the "story". Our presence on Earth is the result of billions of...
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05 Damin Tarlow: Environmental Impact of Buildings
from igniteportland, posted 8 months ago in Technology. 715 views
Everyone pays attention to cars, power plants, etc., but few are talking about our largest environmental impact: buildings. Buildings use 76% of our total electricity vs. transportation which uses 1%. Buildings are the largest energy consum...
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02 Bram Pitoyo: The Secret History of Fonts
from igniteportland, posted 8 months ago in Technology. 456 views
Do you know that the world-famous Helvetica was based on a late 19th century typeface model? That Arial is Helvetica’s bastard child, commissioned to avoid paying licensing fees? That John Baskerville, whose typeface our founding father, Be...
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01 Brady Forrest: What is Ignite
from igniteportland, posted 8 months ago in Technology. 575 views
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sarahgilbert: hacking life with kids, but witho...
from sarahgilbert, posted 8 months ago in Spiritual. 412 views
Variously considered a right, a responsibility, and the only status symbol that counts, here in America, cars 'R us. My family decided one day to go against that grain and we gave up our car, suddenly and without warning. Over the ensuing t...
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Ignite Portland 5: The Secret History of Fonts ...
from brampitoyo, posted 8 months ago in Design. 1253 views
Do you know that the world-famous Helvetica was based on a late 19th century typeface model? That Arial is Helvetica’s bastard child, commissioned to avoid paying licensing fees? That John Baskerville, whose typeface our founding father, Be...
