Joost was created by the guys who brought you Kazaa and Skype. It’s a peer-to-peer video distribution platform. Starting today you can watch Joost programming through your browser. Previously you had to watch through a program you downloaded. Joost is the sort of thing that will offer some serious competition to Hulu.
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Wonderful animated short.
Elephant’s Dream

“Elephants Dream is made entirely with open source graphics software such as ‘Blender’ and with all production files freely available to use under a Creative Commons license.”

Here’s a five-minute mini-documentary explaining the history between Israel and Palestine. A complicated issue clearly explained.
knowledge (subtitled version) from Axel Rudolph on Vimeo.

Sarah Palin debates Ralph Nader.

If you haven’t been watching Lisa Nova, seriously, put everything you’re doing aside, and go watch her videos.

Very cool video from Darwin@Home about the evolution of walking. Not human walking, but cyberbiological walking.

“This is a video of animations of Darwin at Home creatures which result from survival of the fittest and random mutation. Narrative by Gerald de Jong the author of the software behind the project.”

Here’s the high-res version.

Here’s the blog for the book.

“In 2003, Donald Rumsfeld estimated a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion. Five years later, the cost of Iraq war operations is more than 10 times that estimate. So what’s behind the ballooning figures? Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilme’s exhaustively researched book, The Three [...]

Lots of great film stuff this weekend.
Studio@620 is hosting “Global Lens 2008″ this weekend.
620 First Avenue South
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
MINI- FESTIVAL October 3 - 4, 2008
Special Mini-Festival Ticket Prices:
$8 for single film, $12 for two films, $15 for three.
Friday October 3, Argentine Doubleheader:
The Custodian
Friday, October 3, 2008 @ 7 pm
93 minutes
Kept & Dreamless
Friday October 3, [...]