Jan 13, 2008 4:58 AM

Spime Watch: LIFT Videos || The joy of partially functional Korean multimedia

(((The fact that this spime lecture is carried via Google video makes it, if anything, even more wrily ironical than it was when Scott Klinker and I first put it together.)))

http://www.liftconference.com/videos/view/single/53

Link: LIFT Videos || The presentations of the LIFT conference delivered to your desktop..

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