Edward Tufte calls it the “greatest statistical graphic ever drawn“. Drawn in 1869, it shows Napolean’s France, well before the “cheese eating surrender monkey” phase, discovering an axiom employed many years later by a man named Vizzini. It employs six data points, precision, and cold hard facts to show how silly the whole plan turned out to be, and how costly. 5 minutes and 20 slides will show you why this graphic deserves the title “The Greatest Statistical Graphic Ever”.

I can’t argue with the title, it seems well deserved to me! That graphic is nuts!

Don’t miss Tony’s talk on this crazy data packed image!

register now, it’s free! Come hang out with us, enjoy a drink a bite, some trivia, at Fado Irish Pub!

RJ Owen’s gonna give us all 5 more minutes of Roman history, “We’ll start with the early years, draped in myth, go through the republic, hit the empire, talk about the fall, and then mention the Eastern Empire (Byzantines!)  Everything you forgot (or were never taught!) from your classical history class, in just five minutes.  Awesome!”

Awesome is right! I don’t know how accurate HBO’s Rome series was, but it sure piqued my interest! Make sure to register and come hang out with us at Fado Irish Pub.

Things are really moving fast! We’ve got some kick ass sponsors supporting Ignite Denver! Being part of the first ever Ignite event in Denver/Boulder.

We’re still looking for more speakers, to join the ranks of the really cool ones already signed up. I’ve listed them below so you can get a feel for what’s in store for you September 10th.

• Kevin Hoyt – The wonderful world of Cigars
• Rob McNealy – Social media for low tech companies (AskAFloorGuy.com)
• Peter Batty – Future Location and Social Networking – Location aware applications are a hot topic in the social networking space at the moment. This presentation will talk about a different approach to this space, focusing on future location – where will you and your friends be in the future? This is harder to implement than an approach based on current location but more useful if you can do it successfully. We will talk about some of the challenges in this area and the many cool applications of this technology.
• Brian Holmes – how to swear in French
• Jim Hutchison – The glamorous world of Entertainment Business lighting and how rockstar-ish it can and cannot be, followed by a side order of ridiculously simply difficult lighting math chased with industry information and quirky stories.  Living like a rockstar is fun!
• Andrew Hyde – TechStars is a entrepreneur boot camp that every summer selects and seed funds 10 startups.  From an inside viewpoint, what is the experience like?  What are the biggest lessons, and the biggest challenges of starting the startup.
• Scott Dudley – Digital Theatrics
• Dave Taylor – Filmbuzz (get your hollywood news fix!)
• Jun Heider – 5 minute intro to the world of Hackintosh
• Tony Hillerson – Edward Tufte calls it the “greatest statistical graphic ever drawn“. Drawn in 1869, it shows Napolean’s France, well before the “cheese eating surrender monkey” phase, discovering an axiom employed many years later by a man named Vizzini. It employs six data points, precision, and cold hard facts to show how silly the whole plan turned out to be, and how costly
• RJ Owen – 5 minute history of Rome. – The history of Rome, in five minutes.  We’ll start with the early years, draped in myth, go through the republic, hit the empire, talk about the fall, and then mention the Eastern Empire (Byzantines!)  Everything you forgot (or were never taught!) from your classical history class, in just five minutes.  Awesome!
• Jordan Snyder – Robots!
• Dave hassoun – RIA Developers, win Co-workers and Influence People
  

Remember, each presentation is 5 minutes, with 20 slides that automagically advance every 15 seconds. That means, these great topics will be speed rounding with some great visuals, and information.

I mentioned before that Geekswhodrink will be providing a trivia contest for Ignite Denver, while every arrives, and mingles and such. John Dicker and the GWD crew rock!

Make sure to get to Fado  in time to join in on the trivia contest, show everyone one what you’re made of with your knowledge of things arcane and random, like how many ounces of gold are in the Colorado state capital dome? You knew it was real gold right?

The top prize for the winning team, yes team. Ignite is a networking and social event, of course the trivia contest is based on teams. The winning team will get an iTunes gift card for each member!

It’s not too late to sponsor, leave a comment or send an email to ignitedenver@gmail.com

Register now! space is limited!

Got plans for the long weekend? Hope so!

My short list is re-install OS X on my MacBook Pro. Something has gotten crossed inside and started cuasing random GSOD, not good.

We may try to go camping, not sure. But enough about that!

The one important thing I’ll be doing is working on my Ignite Denver Preso. Of course I’m gonna do one! Or rather I’m gonna try

My topic will be something along the lines of building community around a brand on the cheap. Interesting? I think so, it’s part of my side job and new FT day job, so yeah I should have something to say on the topic, now I just gotta figure out out to say it in 5 minutes.

Register now, it’s free and I promise you’ll enjoy yourself! You might even win an iTunes gift card if your trivia knowledge is up to snuff!

Jun Heider is gonna talk about; How to feel like a Mac user on the cheap, How to impress your geeky friends, How to tread grey areas of legality and give Jobs the finger.

I don’t know about you, but I’m down with all that. It ain’t cheap being a Mac Fanboy, I should know!

Come hang with us and hear all about the world of Hackintosh!

Register now, it don’t cost nuthin’ so what’re you waiting for!?

Dave’s gonna tell us all about Filmbuzz, what it is, why it’s important and useful, and why we should care.

Filmbuzz hooks us up with the latest industry news outa hollywood.

Wann hear what Dave and our other great speakers have to say, each in only 5 minutes? Register now! It’s free!

 Rob‘s gonna do a sweet Ignite speed round on ‘Social Media Marketing for Low Tech Companies’

5 minutes to tell us how the low tech companies (yeah, there’s a lot of them out there still) can get involved in the social media space and make the most of it.

Being involved in social media I can’t wait to see what Rob has to say.

For those that didn’t know Rob is the host startupstoryradio.com, a great podcast about entrepreneurship.

Make sure to join us, September 10th, register now!