Dtrace Review. Bryan Cantrill giving a Google Tech Talk on Sun's (and his) Dtrace debugging tool. Gets way too gnarly and kernelicious for me in the middle, but still very entertaining and informative.
Dtrace Review. Bryan Cantrill giving a Google Tech Talk on Sun's (and his) Dtrace debugging tool. Gets way too gnarly and kernelicious for me in the middle, but still very entertaining and informative.
Cal Henderson "Why I Hate Django". Nice ha-ha-only-serious keynote talk from DjangoCon 2008. Touches on a fair bit of stuff that isn't django-specific.
Ken Levine keynote video from PAX 08. Great, funny, autobiographical talk on growing up painfully nerdy, by the father of BioShock.
Slime mold and mushroom growth. Short video with timelapse photography of our mycological overlords. Creepy, beautiful, and otherworldly like War of the Worlds' Red Weed or Half Life's Xen levels. I love the hexagonal net canopies that some of the mushrooms produce.
Adam Savage talk at The Last Hope conference. Fantastic talk on his obsessive sculptural projects to build replicas of a Dodo skeleton and the Maltese Falcon, plus lots of audience Q&A on various aspects of Mythbusters and movie effects.
Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene. More incredible visual tech from the University of Washington. They're on a roll!
YouTube - An anthropological introduction to YouTube. Interesting talk at the Library of Congress by the author of the super-optimistic "Machine is Us/ing Us" video.
Ryan. Impressive and inventive CG animated short film on damaged individuals and the life of animator Ryan Larkin. Vaguely reminiscent of Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly.
Theorizing from Data (Video Lecture). Peter Norvig talks about working on a variety of machine learning problems at Google and the value of very large data sets.
Adobe - Developer Center : Exploring full-screen mode in Flash Player 9. I'd presumed the fullscreen mode on most video sites was a chromeless window spawned by Javascript. Apparently it's native functionality in the more recent Flash players.
TED | Talks | Alan Kay. On teaching ideas, mainly with reference to children. With some demos of squeak, the $100 laptop and a couple of fun proofs of basic maths concepts.
Make your own vacuum tubes? Not without a lot of skill, time, patience and tools you won't. You can live vicariously though, through this amazing 17 minute video of a French amateur radio operator showing you how he does it.
10 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube. TED talks are awesome, @Google talks are great, edumacashunal video in general is lovely. I'm always on the lookout for more things along those lines.
Wacom Cintiq Review (Verdict: Simply Amazing). Want want want. Probably need a new computer first though because Photoshop runs too slowly as it is.
Lit Fuse Films - Movies. Source engine machinima with high production values. The posters alone are beautiful.
Reflections | Projections 2007 : Videos. Talks from Randall Munroe and Steve Yegge among others
Randy Pausch's Last Lecture | MetaFilter. Saving this to watch later since the video's a wmv and I'm on linux at the mo'.
The Shock Doctrine. Short film based on Naomi Klein's new book, produced and co-wrtten by Alfonso Cuarón, director of Children of Men
Tech 5 Engine Exploration. John Carmack demos the tools and engine for Rage. I used to wonder when this kind of thing would finally become possible. Looks like we might finally be seeing the back of repeating patterns.
Flex, Flash and Apollo for Rich Internet Applications. Adobe evangelist James Ward giving a Google tech talk. Lots of detail and clarification of the generally quite fuzzy picture of what's possible with these technologies.
Peter Seibel talking at Google. Practical Common Lisp author talks about polyglot-ism and programming language choice.
DVD Authoring | Linux Journal. Fairly comprehensive tutorial on authoring DVDs via the command line
Oxford Geek Nights. Video, slides, etc. from the Oxford geek nights events
Online Education Free. "Massive resource list for autodidacts"
David Heinemeier Hansson RailsConf 2006 Keynote Address. DHH on mapping POST, GET, PUT, DELETE to CREATE, READ, UPDATE, DELETE. Video of the rubyconf2006 presentation.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Video Lectures. Video lectures from 1986 to accompany the Structure & Interpretation of Computer Programs book
The pleasure of finding things out - RP Feynman - Google Video. I just finished reading "Don't You Have Time To Think?".
Dark Messiah of Might & Magic PC Preview from 1UP.COM. Fantasy RPG from a FPS viewpoint using HL2s Source engine. Video only has a few snippets, but looks really promising.
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