The website may look a bit dodgy with too much advertising, but it’s actually a nice aggregator of online video, featuring full movies, documentaries and cartoons. No Wile E. Coyote, though, so here’s a YouTube clip of the episode where he finally catches the bird.

A good-looking website that lists alternatives to well-known commercial software. However, the lists aren’t that well informed. For instance, Notepad++ (a terrific open source text & code editor by its own right) tops the Adobe Dreamweaver replacement list, which is a bit like proposing steering wheels as a replacement for car tires. Dreamweaver is big and slow and will suck bigtime if you use it as a text editor, on the other hand Notepad ++ is not a WYSIWYG application — which is the exact thing Dreamweaver is intended to be. And what’s with Handbrake (a video transcoder) as an alternative to Adobe Premiere (video editing)?

Bizarre.

Neal Stephenson’s great essay about undersea cable laying is a perfect example of what one of my favorite writers does best: take an incredibly dull subject and turn it into the most interesting and exciting story. This text resembles In the Beginning was the Command Line but better — because it’s about an utterly unfamiliar theme which hasn’t dated as much as his 1999 comparison of computer operating systems.

Lots and lots of documentaries and lectures.