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Anything by Damian Conway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAf9HK16F-A I've watched him give talks in Klingon. I've watched him explain how to build a supercomputer using laser printers. And who can forget that classic talk, "Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachines"?
My favorite was his talk on SelfGOL, and I don't even like obfuscated code! (See http://libarynth.org/selfgol for an explanation of what SelfGOL is.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
This is the talk that, according to Wikipedia, included the first public demonstration of the following technologies: the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor. Pretty good for one talk!
Greg Wilson - What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It's True
Doug Engelbart's mother of all demos (1968): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY This is the talk that, according to Wikipedia, included the first public demonstration of the following technologies: the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor. Pretty good for one…
furious scribbling in the audience as everyone takes notes
I'm so glad we're finally getting away from this paradigm after four decades. For example, the iPhone notepad (and now Mac TextEdit) doesn't wait for a cue from the user to write the few dozen bytes of new input to persistent storage.
The Macronomicon by Michael Fogus http://blip.tv/clojure/michael-fogus-the-macronomicon-597023...