Meet TED.

I joined TED. It rocks.

My only complaint? It wouldn't let me add "bad German" or "rusty German" as a second language on the Create Profile page; the computer only recognized the word GERMAN. If I start getting email next week from like-minded thinkers auf Deutschland, Kirsten musst mich helfen. (Yeah, those are probably not even words...I might have just written that Kirsten will need to "help toast my pickles"...)

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