Annie Duke. Professional Poker Player

The Big App Show with Adam Curry


I stopped by The Big  Book Show a few weeks ago to talk about my new book with one of my favorite people, Adam Curry. How awesome is it that I can be in the same room with someone I grew up watching on TV. My life is SURREAL!  In the best possible way, obviously. [...]

My talk at The Haverford School


As part of my work as a board member of The Decision Education Foundation I have started developing some talks on decision making to give to parents and students. The Decision Education Foundation is an organization devoted to developing curricula that teach good decision making skills for K through 12 for whole school integration. Last [...]

Yip Yips meet the telephone


So Joe and I have been having a blast being nostalgic tonight…spurred on by my new iPhone purchase (yes I have gone to the darkside). I have been creating ringtones galore…I totally can’t believe what I have been missing…and Joe and I started getting super nostalgic about it, creating ringtones out of Monster Mash and [...]

One more Adam Lambert Video


Another great Adam Lambert performance. He is pretty freaking amazing.

Who would have thought you could make a funny Kafka joke?


Okay…I think this may only be funny if you have either read Kafka or have a working knowledge of his work but I was laughing so hard I was crying while I watched this one. My nanny, Jody, was watching with me and I think she thought at first that it was a real news [...]

Subprime Primer


I don’t know if everyone has seen this yet but it is a very funny, yet heartbreakingly true, explanation of the subprime debacle.  Check it out…this particular version is narrated but you can fine unnarrated versions on the web which are in some ways funnier.

PGPorn: Actually Laughing My Ass Off


This is so freaking funny I can’t resist sharing.  Has anyone seen this site or am I totally behind the times? PGPorn is so funny.  Penn Jillette turned me on to it (so to speak) on Facebook.  Here is my favorite one but all of them are funny:

I wish Sesame Street had been this funny when I was a kid…


Oh Elmo…who knew?

Episode 1 of Celebrity Apprentice: This is going to be tough for me…


All right.  Well I watched the first episode of Celebrity Apprentice and I am really of two minds about it.  I mean my first reaction is that it is painful to watch people say mean things about me, of course.  That was hard to see people rolling the eyes and whatnot.  But my other reaction [...]

Proposition 8 – The musical


You have to watch this!  Marc Shaiman’s “Prop 8 – The Musical” about the California ballot initiative to define marriage as existing only between a man and a woman…