The Beatles

“Get Back”, from the legendary rooftop concert.

Woody Allen interviews Billy Graham

Yes, Billy Graham.  Don’t miss the second part.

Part 1, Part 2

Tetris: From Russia with Love

Tetris (google video)
A hard to find documentary about Tetris and its creator Alexey Pajitnov. Also covers the rivalaries between Nintendo and Atari and the absurdities of buying copyrights for software from a country that doesn’t believe in property, much less intellectual property. Ultimately, a great documentary about a very important game.

Broken Social Scene

Here’s the new video for Broken Social Scene’s Major Label Debut off of their self-titled 2005 release.

Net_Dérive – the city as instrument

Net_Dérive
Participants are given a kind of scarf with a mobile phone in each end and off they go to explore the neighborhood. One of the phones takes pictures every 20 secs and collects sounds, the other talks to the GPS (also in the scarf) and to the server inside the gallery space. On a radar [...]

true ondemand tv – Democracy Player

I stumbled upon this earlier in the week, and it’s absolutely amazing. Even if something like this is monetized, there is no way that traditional broadcast television could compete with the choice and quality that Internet distribution offers. Democracy Player is a wonderful piece of cross-platform software. More from lifehacker:
Ever since we [...]

Beat analyzer

The new Tangerine app is making the rounds in the blogosphere.  For Mac users, it analyzes BPM and beat intensity on tracks in your iTunes library.  Once I’m finished analyzing, this should should be great for creating beat-oriented playlists and workout mixes.
from tuaw

City Still Breathing: Listening to the Weakerthans

Listening to the Weakerthans – This is one of my favorite pieces on music.  Grab some coffee, sit down, and enjoy:
It’s the deepest relationship you can have with a place, I think: hating it and staying. It’s the flip side of officially sanctioned civic pride—something I’d seen plenty of, living in Toronto— which always [...]

Maps of War

Maps of War – not the most detailed of maps, but it’s nonetheless an interesting visualization of the past 5,000 years in the Middle East.
from CoolHunting 

The Garden of Forking Paths

 
I finally got around to reading this the other day after it spent several months hiding in one of my folders of things to read.  Here is Jorges Luis Borges’ short story: The Garden of Forking Paths (pdf), and an interesting hypertext adaptation.
from Matt