National Archives on Google Video

Just click here to see a 14-min clip made by the National Archives celebrating the first landing on the moon:

The Eagle Has Landed 1969 - Google Video

and tons more. The videos are generally high quality and don't require you to download anything special to view them.

Although the videos are all in the public domain, it's too bad they're not saved as .AVI or some other format that would make them easy to bring in to add to my own videos.

The Future of the Blog

I agree with the Business Week article The Future of the Blog: quote from Mena Trott, founder of Six Apart:

"To most people, the important things they want to learn about have to do with people they know. So I think personal blogs are really the future, and with that comes a challenge for blogs to be more friendly and welcoming. "

Bunny slope

Chess at Crossroads

Web 2.0 Innovation Map

Web 2.0 Innovation Map is a graphical representation of all the hot new "Web 2.0" companies and where they're located.

Of course Silicon Valley is chock full of companies, but so is Seattle. (Nothing on Mercer Island yet, though).

[via Kintya]

Macintoshes never crash

I spent many long, happy years working for Apple Computer, so I thought this movie was hillarious.

(a 1-minute rebuttal to those Switchers commercials that Apple uses to convince people that Macs are so much better than PCs).

It takes a village

Leah, inspired by a project she saw at the Pacific Science Center, builds a tiny house from paper.