At the TED Con­fer­ence, actress Sarah Jones takes a fun­ny look at “the inven­tion of self,” which is a fan­cy way of say­ing she does some good imper­son­ations. Com­ing up, Jones imper­son­ates an elder­ly Jew­ish women, a young fast-talk­ing Domini­can col­lege stu­dent, peo­ple from var­i­ous nation­al­i­ties (Chi­na, India, France, Ger­many, Jor­dan, etc.). And it’s all mixed with some humor. Runs about 21 min­utes.

Just a quick fyi, we cre­at­ed a lit­tle Face­book page where you can access our dai­ly con­tent. So head over and become a “Fan.” And tell a friend.

Also, please note, you can find us on Twit­ter or sub­scribe to our RSS feed. And remem­ber that we’re now locat­ed at www.openculture.com  

Have a good week­end.

Give this a minute. It gets quite good once it gets going. Thanks Philip for send­ing this along. (Read­ers always feel free to send intel­li­gent audio & video our way.)

Here’s a quick announce­ment, and please take note. Start­ing today, you can find Open Cul­ture at www.openculture.com. Our old domain (oculture.com) will still work, as will old links. But they’ll for­ward (hope­ful­ly) seam­less­ly to the new domain. Why the change? Because it seemed time to have the url actu­al­ly match the site’s name.

If you encounter any tech­ni­cal prob­lems, please let us know at

ma**@op*********.com











. Also, let me please ask a quick favor from you. If you’ve pre­vi­ous­ly linked to our site, could you please update your links to reflect the new domain? Sim­ply change ocul­ture to open­cul­ture, and keep the rest of the link the same, and you’re good to go. This will be a big help to us. Mean­while, if you’ve nev­er told a friend about Open Cul­ture, now would be a good time to spread the word.

Last­ly, I want to extend a big thanks to Eric Ober­le for mak­ing this switch pos­si­ble and for gen­er­al­ly keep­ing the site run­ning smooth­ly. With­out Eric, I would have blown this site to pieces long ago. We’re only still around because of him. Thanks ‑e!

If you’re vis­it­ing Open Cul­ture thanks to The New York Times arti­cle, and if you’re look­ing for audio down­loads for your next road trip, then please explore our Audio Col­lec­tion, which includes (among oth­er things) free audio books, free lan­guage lessons, free uni­ver­si­ty cours­es, and much more. You can down­load these audio files — all for free — to your mp3 play­er or com­put­er. Feel free to ask any ques­tions. And if you like this kind of con­tent, then be sure to vis­it us again at www.oculture.com. We make a point here of bring­ing you the best cul­tur­al media avail­able on the web (if I may humbly say so). Thanks for vis­it­ing.

You can fol­low us on Twit­ter at @openculture. Hope you’ll join us.

File this clip (now added to our YouTube Favorites) under Ran­dom. See you next week. 

via Alfred A. Knopf Twit­ter Feed (ours here)