Inpector Cabaneta is crazy with his Michael Jackson moves.  

He sure is. I think it's pretty funny. 

I wish my university had something like this. Sounds like a lot of interesting stuff was discussed. Though it also sounds like it would be more fun to riff on that Generation of Laziness speech.

The kid did pretty good and was a better speaker than he thought he was. He brought up points that are cliche but true, like every opportunity being a chance for experience, every failure being a lesson etc. (he may not have said that exactly, but roughly). That thing about standardized testing was definitely true as well, although having heard some of the questions on the TAKS test (again, old standardized test for Texas public schools I never had to take), I'm honestly more worried we have to prepare anyone for that. Specifically, the questions I remember hearing were very basic word problems in math. 

It's just that that title alone stinks of a certain pretentiousness. I mean my friend and I are not what I'd call lazy, but we're not about to give a speech to our generation about how everyone else is an asshole. I for one want them all to stay stupid so I can take their money. Y'know, I'm kidding, but when I see people buying holy water from some guy on TV, I think "I don't even think that's unethical of him to lie to you like that; if you're that dumb, you had it coming."

I wish I had the opportunity to go to an event like this.

I think if more people knew about it, there would have been more in attendance, but while I poke fun, I probably would have done the same as those two with the cell phones. Luckily, I saw a banner that simply said "TEDxSFA" and knew what it was and that I wanted to go. 

Of course, maybe people knew it would be posted to Youtube anyway and thought "why spend $10 and a Saturday?"

My favorite character in Ghost Trick is Missile the dog.  He also shows up in some of the Phoenix Wright games.

I actually figured he'd be your favorite.

Where were these types of speeches when I was in college? I would check out some of these but I'm glad they're online.

I don't know. It depends on whether or not your college participated in TEDx events, but yeah, there's tons on Youtube. 

I don't think TED was around when I was in school. It's good to see these types of events are available now to schools, and online.

Speaking of online and schools, Harvard posts several of its lectures online, and even have a free Youtube course about the chemistry of cooking.  

Interesting. I like how a lot of these schools are placing content online. I used to browse through iTunes U to see what colleges offered. 

So there's lots of talking but with no particular theme unless brought up by the speaker themselves?

Not sure if this is for me. I saw the TED videos on my netflix account but never felt to give them a try. Must be a college thing.

The theme was curiosity, which is pretty broad. 

TEDx specifically is a college thing, typically, but TED is just for anyone who is intellectually curious.