IT, Security and Power
Bruce Schneier and Jonathan Zittrain at The Berkman Center (video: one hour, thirty minutes).
Bruce Schneier and Jonathan Zittrain at The Berkman Center (video: one hour, thirty minutes).
Anil Dash speaking at The Berkman Center (video: one hour, eleven minutes).
“Innovation or Exploitation? The Limits of Computer Trespass Law” A presentation by Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society (CIS) on February 19, 2013, featuring Ed Felten (Princeton), Jennifer Granick (Stanford), Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive), Jonathan Mayer (Stanford), Alex Stamos (Artemis Internet), and Dan Auerbach (EFF): 1 hour and 51 minutes.
“Aaron’s Laws: Law and Justice in a Digital Age,” a lecture by Harvard Law School Professor, Lawrence Lessig (February 19, 2013): 1 hour and 43 minutes.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks about his new book “Antifragile,” as well as libertarianism, and “capitalism’s genius for failure.” (56 minute video from Reason.TV)
The Khan Academy weighs in on SOPA/PIPA.
PROTECT IP/SOPA Act Breaks the Internet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9qE-qXI11I
Music for the World Cup: Botswana guitar picking.
See Also: Randy Balko: On recording police officers.
In response to a flood of Facebook and YouTube videos that depict police abuse, a new trend in law enforcement is gaining popularity. In at least three states, it is now illegal to record any on-duty police officer.
Even if the encounter involves you and may be necessary to your defense, and even if the recording is on a public street where no expectation of privacy exists.
This is unbelievable. People need to understand the scary, long term effects of limitations on civil rights.
Belgian artist Johan Grimonprez’s eighty-minute film Double Take.
ArtForum on the film: “‘They say that if you meet your double, you should kill him.’ The mantra in Belgian artist Johan Grimonprez’s eighty-minute film Double Take, 2009, suggests that the real must assert itself against its image to prevent its own defeat in an ongoing battle between fiction and reality. The quotation is from the narrative that anchors the film—written by British novelist Tom McCarthy and based on Jorge Luis Borges’s short story ‘August 25, 1983’—in which Alfred Hitchcock meets an older version of himself.”
Rotten Tomatoes: 70% Fresh
http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf
Philip K. Howard at TED on Four Ways to Fix a Broken Legal System
Up There: a short, 13 minute, documentary about the dying business of hand painting advertisements on the sides of tall buildings – a business, now, with the advent of vinyl appliques, pretty much limited to New York City and Los Angeles.
http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/30183073001?isVid=1
James Dean pulls a gun on Ronald Reagan (in newly discovered tv footage)
Magician David Blaine‘s talk at TED: “How I held my breath for 17 minutes”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3QHkFc3NZw
Every painting in MOMA: on April 10, 2010
The Truth about ACTA (a 25 second pre-roll advert precedes the video) from MIchael Geist, law professor at the University of Ottawa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRcTYgEx3mI
“Steve Ballmer’s” iPad review
YACHT: The Afterlife
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLo9k3cse_o
music go music: Local Los Angeles band grabbing for the “new abba” crown in this video.
Drowned in Sound’s rave review: “What is long gone is exuberant, sugary sing alongs by squeaky clean acts so pure that if you cut them they’d bleed rainbows … Music Go Music could change all that … Cynics will be forced to suspend their disbelief in order to enjoy ‘Expressions’ to its full potential and the album certainly veers towards places that, if they’re not quite cheesy, then are certainly beyond camp. There are moments of Expressions … that sound like Judy Garland in The Sound Of Music if said music was Spector produced Sixties girl groups”