A Whole Lotta Nothing: Khan Academy - Inspirational example of the impact one motivated, passionate person can have on the lives of others. Awesome. I’ve also got to give him props for the presentation. Instead of “let me show you what I’ve done” it was “what do you think?”.
PLASTIC BAG | FUTURESTATES | ITVS (via IndiesLab) - Narrated by Werner Herzog, directed, written, and edited by Ramin Bahrani. Odd, yet beautiful. Thanks to Roger Ebert and Jason Kottke for the link.
"Dear Google, With your purchase of On2, you now own both the world’s largest video site (YouTube) and all the patents behind a new high performance video codec — VP8. Just think what you can achieve by releasing the VP8 codec under an irrevocable royalty-free license and pushing it out to users on YouTube? You can end the web’s dependence on patent-encumbered video formats and proprietary software (Flash)."
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Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube - Free Software Foundation - If Google heeds this letter’s advice, the web would change for the better overnight.
Update 7/17/10: They did.
