Believing the Unbelievable: The Clash Between Faith and Reason in the Modern World. Sam Harris at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival

A very entertaining lecture by David Weinberger on the ordering of information, and the way internet has made new ordering paradigms possible. Other keywords than the ones given above would be: Dewey,... more inside

A brief scene from the old DOS classic, Discworld, a game based on Terry Pratchett's popular novels. Here Rincewind (a wizzard) has a chat with Death.

This is the film by Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick. An introduction to the life, work and ideas of Noam Chomsky that takes in a wide variety of subjects to show how the media chooses what and how much... more inside

John Cleese at Just for Laughs in Montreal doing Cleese Idol, a spoof of American Idol. Ben Mulroney, who hosts Canadian Idol, helps host Cleese Idol.

George Clinton & his Parliament-Funkadelic band perform a 2 hour concert at the 2001 Montreux Jazz Festival.

“What Barry Says: Animation to the Polemic” was written by Barry McNamara. He says a lot in a 2:40 minutes and presents his thoughts on what he calls “war corporatism.” The graphics are impressive. It won Best Animation at the Brooklyn Film Festival and Portobello Film Festival in 2004.