In 5 Minutes I will share how sending one email (telling a company their website sucked) led to eating PB&Js with (and made by) award winning superstars while assisting in the gulf oil spill cleanup. In other words: How ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.

Among other things, your identity. The internet lets you explore this, and clothes may be a cue, but they don't always tell you everything. And sometimes you have to strip *down to the essentials* to see all of who you are.

AI's next great species, the artificial worm, will link neuroscience with computing and catapult us into an age of Star Trek-like intelligent systems.
Contact: @slars0n | stelar@alum.mit.edu

If you are thinking about starting with iOS (iPhone / iPad / iPod touch) development, this one is for you. In this session an experienced iOS developer will get you started. I will there you what to look at, and what to skip for now. No programming background required, but it might come in very handy.

By @roelofroos

How we can make San Diego a better place by making city data available freely available for anyone to use.

In the words of the esteemed Chicken Little: "We're fucked."

A rollicking good time for the whole family, or your money back!

What happens when Murphy's Law collides with a well-intentioned iPhone app?

UX issues, poor software architecture, idiotic bugs and even our own contribution to the Arab-Israeli conflict will be covered in this 5 minute tour-de-fail. BONUS: a bug in the new iPhone OS software that could render your phone useless!

My name is @jamesjennings, and I approve this message.

The Open Video movement promotes an accessible, interoperable, & innovative future of video.

Some (mathless) tips on how to approach problems and questions in our everyday world like a statistician would.

Do you have a $500 ergonomic super chair? Do you spend hours at your computer everyday? Do you know that you may be slowly killing yourself sitting there all day like a lazy sack of potatoes?

Learn more in this short talk about new research explaining why sedentary behavior is affecting your health. Plus office-hacks to make your environment physical activity friendly.

Contact: @e_ramirez | er.ramirez@gmail.com

During the dark ages, Irish monks labored for centuries to save the output of classical civilization in illuminated manuscripts. The Web is the output of our civilization. How can we, right now, make the job of preserving our cultural output easier? What does "Long Now" thinking have to say about how to architect your web site or web application?

// TITLE:
Waffles.
// DESCRIPTION:
An ode to the mouthwatering joy of waffles (particularly authentic sugar-waffles and how to make them), beginning with a story of revenge on the cold streets of Belgium.
// WHO:
Jason Alderman, @justsomeguy on twitter.
// WHY:
The most entertaining five minutes of your life involving waffles and powerpoint, guaranteed.

I've learned the hard way about how life works. While I don't have all the answers to specific questions, I do have a unified theory in which everything fits. I'd love the opportunity to present this to you all.

A tour of science FAILs through history, with a message of how smart people can avoid the same fate.

Buddha, Socrates, RMS, TBL, The Broken Man at Lascaux, Upper Paleolithic Art, The Matrix, Morpheus, Neo, Inuit Carvings, South African San Paintings, Marshall McLuhan, Andy Warhol, Paris Hilton, Cuttle Fish, John Cage, Pete Best, Al Gore, Jewel, Eric Raymond, Chris Crocker, Johannes Gutenberg.

The explosive growth of interest around gov 2.0 has uncovered a wealth of developers ready to change government from their laptops but this is only the first step. To build an effective and open 21st century government developers must step up. Learn exactly why we need you to bring your intelligence, energy, clarity, and yes *mad coding skills* to public office.

Resurgent interest in fine cocktails is driving an expanding market for quality beverages. This talk is about: ratios, venues, qualities, history.

Print journalism is struggling and often the first thing to go is the arts coverage. Let's look into different models of journalism that could ensure quality arts coverage for San Diego in the future.

All modern industrial societies have been structured on the premise that we can indefinitely increase our economic growth, technological prowess, population, and resource extraction.

What if that assumption is incorrect, and there are in fact limits to what our universe can provide us? When and how would that affect our lives and consciousness, and what would could we do when faced with the end of growth?

Is all that profile data meant to create more accurate ad networks? I hope not, let's put it to better use by using it to uplift the soul.