Ryan Tomayko

Beauty and truth in physics —

Murray Gell-Mann’s (quarks, Nobel prize winner, peer to Feynman at Caltech) TEDtalk from 2007 on the relationship between beauty (simplicity) and truth in science and mathematics:

What is especially striking is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

He goes on to give a bunch of anecdotes that show this playing out over and over during the development of particle physics.

Video: Node.js by Ryan Dahl —

ry’s talk from JSConf.eu. The leading paragraph says it all:

Node.js might be the most exciting single piece of software in the current JavaScript universe. Ryan received standing ovations for his talk and he really deserved it!

Wow. JavaScript is pretty damn big universe right now.

Programming and Minimalism —

Jonathan Dahl talks about minimalism and clarity in writing and how to use these principles in programming. Great talk. He uses a lot of analogy and audio/visual stuff at the beginning, which (in my experience) typically means that the presenter has no fucking idea what they’re talking about. Not here. Excellent, well-rounded talk.

Nick Kallen - Magic Scaling Sprinkles —

Great talk from this year’s gogaruca conference. Anything that starts with a rail against the belief that tools can have mystical scaling powers is going to end up being a good talk :)

Deploying Ruby Web Applications to Heroku —

Remi’s kick ass screencast on deploying to Heroku.

Mark Nottingham's HTTP Status Report presentation at QCon '08 —

Protocols are hard. Nobody understands this.

Danny MacAskill on a Bike —

Sick.

Scaling Rails - Episode #11 - Advanced HTTP Caching —

I haven’t actually had a chance to watch this yet but I’m sure it’s great if it builds on the talk Gregg gave at acts_as_conference 2009. Also, I love this slide: “Reverse Proxy Caches – WTF?” :)

Gregg Pollack presents Rack::Cache at acts_as_conference 2009 —

The RailsEnvy guys presented on a bunch of recent innovations in the Ruby/Rails community in their acts_as_conference 2009 talk. Go to 24:00 where Gregg gives a really tremendous overview of using Rack::Cache, the benefits of HTTP caching in general, and how to use all of this stuff in Rails 2.3.

Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes (YouTube) —

“My mother used to say, ‘Butter is better with butter.’”

Conceptual Algorithms (Presentation) —

Tom Preston-Werner shows you how to think.

Dan Webb - 8 minutes on Rack —

Quick presentation on Rack by Dan Webb. Covers a lot in eight minutes.

RubyConf 2008: Lightweight Web Services —

Adam Wiggins and Blake Mizerany’s presentation on Sinatra and RestClient.

Ezra's "Merb, Rubinius and the Engine Yard Stack" Google Tech Talk —

So I’ve been skeptical about Merb but I really like the world-view Ezra puts forth here: core framework code should be simple (no/little meta-programming), fast is good, Rack is awesome, etc.

An Introduction to REST —

Joe Gregorio’s 14 minute video introduction to REST and HTTP.

Video of Chris Wanstrath's Ruby Hoedown '08 Keynote —

I just totally love this kid. Chris explains the future and past of, uh, everything that matters, and gives good, solid, practical reasons for why contributing to free and open source software projects is something worth dedicating a large chunk of your time to.

Richard Feynman: Take the world from another point of view —

One of the better pieces on Feynman I’ve seen. First aired February 2, 1975 on NOVA. I know what I’ll be watching on the Muni for the next few days :)

(A Video) Introduction to the Atom Publishing Protocol —

With your host, Joe Gregorio.

Office Worker Goes Absolutely Insane Video —

NFW!

Apache 3.0 (a tall tale), Roy Fielding —

Nice ApacheCon EU ‘08 presentation (warning: video + slides, no transcript) covering various blue sky stuff on Roy’s brain for Apache and HTTP.

Kent State Massacre —

This was the first year in a long time that I didn’t make it over to Kent to see the memorial and pay my respects. Growing up a few miles from where all this went down is still one of the most sobering experiences of my life.

Dumb and Dumber in 5 Seconds [youtube.com] —

This is far and away the funniest part of the movie… Whelp, see ya later.

Unfortunately, I think it's a little more complicated than that... —

“Math class is tough; let’s go shopping!”

Will Ferrell Crashes CNBC Power Lunch —

He’s insane.

Interview with Steve Yegge on Rhino on Rails —

Dion Almaer sits down with Yegge to talk about his JavaScript/Rails port. Nice one-on-one video, candid, and thick in technical detail.

Code Rush (A PBS Special on Netscape circa 1998) —

“Code Rush follows the people of Netscape Communications during an intense period in 1998, when it was all but certain that Microsoft had already won control of the Internet user’s desktop.”

Websphere CTO Jerry Cuomo on REST & Project Zero —

Whoa. I apparently haven’t spent nearly enough time looking into IBM’s Project Zero. It seems to come down to REST + (Groovy|PHP) and sneaking practical technologies in the front door with a “SOA” label on it. Interesting strategy.

War is over if you want it —

Sorry people, I’m completely sucked into this Ron Paul thing. Merry Christmas!

Prince XML: Generating High Quality PDFs from HTML + CSS —

Simple print typesetting using HTML/CSS. Targets the 80% of common print tasks w/ HTML/CSS. I’m going to be looking into mozilla’s cairo PDF output abilities within the next few weeks so it will be interesting to compare.

GAO: "USA is living beyond its means" —

(Meta: Wow. The Government Accountability Office is vlogging on YouTube.) The money situation over here is what keeps me up at night these days. How am I suppose to explain this to my kids in twenty years?

Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters —

“No one party has a monopoly on bullshit” … “it’s not just about talking bullshit, it’s also about living it…”

The New BackUp Commercial —

“… and mounts your shotgun flush at your bedside enabling access to your shotgun while in the laying position in your bed!”

Employees Expose FOX NEWS Distortions —

It’s worse than I thought.

Hotwire graphical terminal —

Looks like they’re bringing the basic capabilities of readline up to the GUI level. Definitely interesting.

Rudy's Four Horsemen —

Giuliani to bomb everybody if elected. Iran, Palestine, Syria, Massachusetts, etc.

BoingBoing TV! —

This’ll be a fun ride.

Advanced Python (or Understanding Python) —

Thomas Wouters covers a ton of ground (quickly) on lots of Python’s interesting features. This may be the quickest way for newbies (or refugees) to come up to speed with the language.

LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE! [youtube.com] —

I just had this exact conversation with my wife. No one understands…

My baby's so sweet :-) —

My sister and her daughter—whom I’ve seen very little of in the past three years due to her husband’s multiple Iraq deployments—singing a beautiful song. An interesting contrast to the deeply upsetting Patraeus report videos I’ve been watching all day.

Hawking on the Simpsons —

Ha!

Bo Jackson - Tecmo Super Bowl Run [youtube.com] —

Coast to coast… THREE TIMES! The original TecmoBowl soundtrack is fried into the deepest areas of my brain.

FOX Attacks Iran [foxattacks.com] —

Wow. I’ve tried to stay away from politics here lately but this is pretty crazy.

3D Mailbox - FREE 3-Dimensional Email Software. Bring e-mail to life! (And put spam to death!) —

This just ruined my day. I’m going home. Absolutely horrible. Just horrible.

CNN 0wned during Paris Hilton Coverage —

Ha!

A New Way to look at Networking —

PARC’s Van Jacobson (traceroute(8), tcpdump(1)) on, well, everything that matters. Hands down best talk I’ve seen in years. I’m going to watch it again tomorrow.

ZFS Basics Screencast [opensolaris.org] —

I haven’t had a chance to play yet but you can consider me on the ZFS bandwagon. It’s coming to FreeBSD 7.0, too. Oodalolly!

Lecture 7b: Metacircular Evaluator, Part 2 - Google Video —

“I consider being able to return a procedural value, and to have first class procedures in general, as being essential to doing very good modular programming.” — Gerald Sussman (PS: how come nobody told me you can link to specific time offsets in google

CS 61A The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs —

UC Berkeley Webcasts | Video and Podcasts: CS 61A.

7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0 [video.google.com] —

Recent presentation by Mr. Bram Moolenaar on how to be a bad-ass with Vim.

Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal [youtube.com] —

Oh man. This song was not this horribly bad when I was a kid.

Fun with Vista's Speed Recognition [innoq.com] —

Press caps locks. Press caps lock. PRESS CAPS LOCK! Press capital I. Delete I. Press capital I. DELETE I SCROLL THIS CONFLICT. DELETE ADULT SCROLLS CONFLICT FOR C … THANK YOU! Delete THINK YOU.

Schneier on Video: Security Theater Against Movie Plot Threats —

Oodalolly!

Best use of film including Bob Saget —

Funniest part of the movie; hands down.

Greg the Architect - SOA This. SOA That. —

“Buhdooy!”

Fully licensed —

“I hope you can wipe the screen off!” — I fell off my chair.

New Ipod!!!!! (SNL) [youtube.com] —

The original SNL / Steve Jobs skit. This is a classic as far as I’m concerned.

Steve Jobs iPhone on Weekly Update [youtube.com] —

Nails it.

Leo Laporte hates the Zune! (video) —

I need to get back into following free culture. The anti-DRM sentiment is unprecedented.

Original Legend of Zelda Commercial —

Oh man.

Sympathetic Hippo —

Holy shit!

The only Soquid you eat with a Fpoon —

Fpoon, fpoon, fpoon, fpoon, fpoon.

Keith Olberman 2006-09-11 - Special Comment —

We should all be as pissed off right now. 9/11 is a disease.

Feynman Interview: The pleasure of finding things out —

Nice little Feynman short on google video. Feynman talking, Feynman painting, Feynman being the complete bad-ass that only Feynman can be… I can’t get enough of him.

Thermite burning a hole in a car —

Holy crap! Where can I get some thermite?

MIT God and Computers Lecture Series: Donald Knuth

Introducing the MacBook Pro —

Holy crap I can’t wait to get my hands on this.

Flight 93 (movie about 9/11) Trailor —

Nice to see hollywood capitalizing on national crisis so soon. Bastards.

Snakes and Rubies Video and Audio Downloads

rednecksurfing.wmv —

Dumbass..

Shining —

hahahahaaaa!

potter crash —

Video of a guy plot-spoiling the latest Harry Potter books to a crowd of many in front of Barnes and Noble.

This Spartan Life - Episode 1 - Module 5 —

Podcasting Red vs. Blue style?

Rails Take 2 w/ Sound —

Perdy..

All your base are belong to us —

The original european zero-wing introduction followed by a load of AYBABTU spottings in teh wild..

Tom Cruise Kills Oprah —

haha

del.icio.us: casting the net wider —

Oh crap, he did it this time. Is the RIAA/MPAA going to be after del.icio.us now? Insane, I know but not impossible considering past history.

Disco Apache video —

It’s kind of amazing that at some time in some place in this very universe this actually took place.

Cornell Copyright Debate In Pieces —

The 3.5 hour copyright debate featuring all the players from the EFF, RIAA, MPAA, acedemia, etc. cut up into little pieces for ease of viewing.

Laser-controlled headless zombie flies —

The beauty of science ladies and gentlemen.

Fred Von Lohmann (EFF) vs. Theodore Olson (RIAA/MPA) on CSPAN —

The RIAA/MPA lawyer is a complete tool, yo…

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Video Lectures —

When did I die and how the hell did I end up in heaven? Crazy!

Rockys Back —

Rocky warm-up spoof. This guy is my hero.

PBS FRONTLINE: Watch online —

Full video library of PBS' Frontline. I’ve never heard of Frontline but they’ve covered some interesting topics. All available through the web.

Cory Doctorow: "Copyright vs Community" (MOV, MPEG) —

Feature length lecture by Cory Doctorow on copyright, DRM, and other digital rights issues. CC share-alike licensed.

Worst weatherman ever —

This is almost too painful to watch.

How to ambush Fox News —

Vanity Fair’s Judy Bachrach disturbs Fox’s plans of a nice afternoon of inauguration coverage. Note that lying about what you’re going to talk about and being on Live are requirements for getting an honest opinion onto the TV.

Amateur Tsunami Video —

home video of the tsunami hitting all over the place. unbelievable.

Real Ghost Sighting Caught on Film —

wow! I’m not sure how they could have faked this. the voices are clear as day with the volume cranked.

Don Knuth: Musings and More —

A bunch of Knuth talks and experiments. Some video, audio, book excerpts, etc.

RNC fear-phrases video —

911, 911, 911, 911, terrorists, terrorists, terrorists, terrorists, weapons, nuclear weapons, weapons of mass destruction, weapons, terrorists, terrorists, terrorists, terrorists.. Vote Bush!

Free Fahrenheit 9/11 Download —

for the next two weeks only.

MC Tim Ryan (D-OH) —

Wow! Beautiful wrap-up of everything that’s wrong with the Bush administration by my very own congressman Tim Ryan. Must watch..

Doctorow's Edinburgh talk video .torrent —

Video for the “Web 2.0 == AOL 1.0? How the Sinister Forces of Darkness are Conspiring in Smoke Filled Rools to Make the Web Illegal, and You’re Not Invited” talk.

The Toilet Online - Leave It To Bush! —

US Citizenship 101: Freedom of Expression :)

Jon Stewart on Crossfire —

This is amazing. Jon Stewart is my hero. Bittorrent of the whole show or text transcript available. You have to watch it to get the full effect though.

Hard Working George —

It’s hard work! hard hard hard!

Retro TV Themes —

AirWolf, Alf, The A-Team, Fraggle Rock!, Gadget, Knight Rider, Miami Vice, Thundercats!, Transformers, and many many more!

Quicktime: John Kerry on Daily Show (whole show) —

I watched this clips on comedycentral.com last night and wasn’t all that blown away.

Richard Feynman: The QED Lectures —

Real audio of outstanding Feynman lectures on QED

Twilight Zone: Planet of the Apes —

Planet of the Apes “re-imagined” as an episode of The Twilight Zone.

Red vs. Blue : Primer on Real Life vs the Internet —

Must watch! Y O U M U S T W A T C H !