The Cathedral and the Bazaar

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

The manifesto explaining why open source software works.

Entrepreneurship Corner: Stanford University's free podcasts and video clips of entrepreneurial thought leaders and innovators from Silicon Valley.

Entrepreneurship Corner: Stanford University's free podcasts and video clips of entrepreneurial thought leaders and innovators from Silicon Valley.

Lots of free podcasts & videos. There is some valuable info in and amongst this sea of data...

DISQUS

DISQUS | Turn Blog Comments into a Webwide Discussion with a Powerful Comment System

Since no one has ever left a comment on my blog, it's not immediately relevant. I've been impressed by it when I've run across, though, and would encourage blogs to consider it.

Anderson Organizing Systems

Anderson Organizing Systems

No idea if this is any good, but talks a good game. I am remarkably productive despite being massively unorganized... with some trepidation I'm considering engaging such a service. [why trepidation? perhaps I have comfort in my clutter...?]

Giant Pool of Money

This American Life aired a one hour show in May 2008 on the subprime mess.

The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made - Reviews - Movies - New York Times

The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made - Reviews - Movies - New York Times

Subjective, of course, but a good place to start. There
are a lot of bad movies. Also plenty of "genre" movies that
might appeal. E.g. do you find the View Askew movies entertaining (anything with Jay & Silent Bob, like Clerks, or Dogma, or Chasing Amy...)? They aren't on
this list but that's ok.

For genre films, the American Film Institute recently released their list of the top 10 films of all time for
ANIMATION
ROMANTIC COMEDIES
WESTERN
SPORTS
MYSTERY
FANTASY
SCI-FI
GANGSTER
COURTROOM DRAMA
EPIC

The Best Free Software - Reviews by PC Magazine

The Best Free Software - Reviews by PC Magazine

Current state of all the good stuff that you can get for free. Plenty of apps. I love Audacity!

Many Eyes

Many Eyes

Ooh! Some very pretty visualization tools. Not sure yet whether it's easy to do useful viz, but pretty for certain.

Accidental Wisdom: The Real Truth About Barack Obama!

Accidental Wisdom: The Real Truth About Barack Obama!

I am an Obama supporter. This site is clearly pro-Obama, but has links & citations to back up its points. It attempts to rebut many of the emails circulating, many of which make anti-Obama claims but without complete truthiness behind them...

Calais - Overview

Calais - Overview

All content, connected, semantically tagged...

automagically adding semantic metadata.

What kind of errors? Adaptation?

I'm frankly rather intrigued by this...

The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 - 2007 - The New York Times

The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 - 2007 - The New York Times

Phenomenal use of graphics to display information. In case you care about box office...

I don't, particularly, but I do love innovation in visualization.

Project Implicit�

Project Implicit�

Pretty sophisticated methodology for teasing out true beliefs (as compared with self-reported & possibly delusional beliefs...)

Caveman blues - Times Online

Caveman blues - Times Online

Why do we seem to "need" more stuff?

Probably evolutionary...?