movie recommendation & other brainfood media

I really liked the movie “everything is illuminated” (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404030/).

It made me re-think what I had seen lately in a lecture stream "The Future of Utopia in History: Literary and Cultural Modernism" Hayden White, Bonsall Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University

Real Video

(39:44)

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/media/05/342_future_utopia_history/haydenWhite.ram

And while I am at it, I have been watching some pretty neat videos of ‘premium people’ explaining what they are doing:

University of Berkley has archived some really cool stuff (mostly Audio)

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/audiofiles.html

Original lectures by Michele Foucault, Aldous Huxley, Noam Comsky, Umberto Eco, Bill Clinton, Malcom X

MIT World is a free and open site that provides on-demand video of significant public events at MIT.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/

They really have a lot of good video – I especially recommend e.g.:

Democratizing Innovation, Eric von Hippel

and The World is Flat Friedman Foreign Affairs Columnist,The New York Times http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/266/

Princeton University Streaming Media http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/

I saw Hillary and I have to say the potential first female American president did leave quite a good impression

Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Senator (D-NY): "Challenges for U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East"

VideoNet 56K 350K 56K 350K

Closer To Truth

A talkshow with rather interesting guests and topic (e.g. What's Creativity and Who's Creative?, New Communities for the New Millennium?, or Will the Internet Change Humanity?)

http://www.closertotruth.com/videoarchive/

In case you prefer to record the real-media streams (save to your harddrive) in order to watch them whenever you want I recommend StreamboxVcrSuite2 (http://www.pctip.ch/library/downloads/24171/1/StreamboxVcrSuite2.exe)

Enjoy

Max