Archive for the ‘Video’ Category
Carolyn Steel: How food shapes our cities
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009Amazing High Speed Robots
Thursday, July 9th, 2009What happens when these things are building houses ? Seriously.
Just Do It
Monday, June 1st, 2009This video is an inspirational speech from American entrepeneur, Art Williams on how to be successful at anything.
Tip: You can skip to 2 minutes 50 seconds if you don’t want to hear a fairly long winded introduction by the “MC”.
Tim Berners-Lee talks about the importance of linked data
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009Amazing “Speed Rock Climbing”
Sunday, December 21st, 2008Dan Osman climbs a vertical 400ft cliff in 4 minutes 25 seconds. Just shows what’s possible if you have no fear. Sadly, Dan died in 1998 after his rope failed whilst performing a “free fall jump”. More info about Dan Osman
Chinese Animal Cruelty
Saturday, October 25th, 2008Just when you think you’ve seen it all and know how terribly cruel human beings can be, you stumble across something so disgusting that it really makes you sick.
Today, I found out that in China, 2 million animals are SKINNED ALIVE each year for their fur. Yes, that’s right, they skin the animals alive (because they say, it’s easier than skinning them dead) and use the fur to make “realistic” toys for children, amongst other things. Even worse than that, once they have skinned the animal they throw it still alive onto a pile of other skinned animals to die slowly and in agony.
I wouldn’t believe it, if it wasn’t for watching the video which shows the true callous horror that humans are capable of. Sadly, I suspect this isn’t the worst of it by any means.
Please watch the video, available here www.animalsaviors.org
and sign the petition to help force the chinese government to do something about this disgraceful practice.
The key to life from Will Smith – profound
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Incredibly motivating video presentation
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Randy Pausch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and is presenting this video about “Achieving your childhood dreams”. Anyone who has had dreams of success should watch. It’s a long (1:16hr) but an incredible story. Randy has since died of pancreatic cancer which is a significant loss to the world.
Linus Tourvalds on Distributed Source Code Management
Saturday, July 19th, 2008This video is quite long (1hr) but it will (should) change how you think about source code management.
Linus developed a source code control package called Git because all other version control systems were doing it (badly) wrong. I was sceptical, but having watched the video, I’m convinced there is compelling power in distributed source code management.
If you replace the term source code management with content management and use a bit of imagination then distrbuted source code systems look very similar to what I believe the next generation of Enterprise Content Management systems should look like. (ie source code management and content management are very similar concepts)