Take a look at the code of programmers of various levels linked here.

They are all writing the standard “Hello World” program. Especially funny is the one by the “Chief Executive”.

This is a movie made and directed by a real waitress Patti DiVita, telling you what it really is like waitressing.

You can download the full movie here. Don’t forget to leave her a tip though.

Radio program “This American Life” explains the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis in the episode “355: The Giant Pool of Money” broadcasted May 9, 2008. The host Ira Glass along with NPR correspondent explains the big picture and put the complex subject in simpler terms that we can understand. You can heard the full episode on thislife.org.

Or you can hear a shorter explanation titled “Global Pool of Money Got Too Hungry” on npr.org.

Watch the Nova documentary “Car of the Future” online.

This documentary explores alternative fuel vehicles which will be needed in the future as demand for fossil fuel outgrow supplies. And because this film is hosted by Tom and Ray Magliozzi (also known as Click and Clack) of the radio show CarTalk, you are sure to get a few laughs as well.

This article on Alzheimer’s Association suggests …

• dark-skinned fruits and vegetables such as spinach, broccoli, blueberries, blackberries, etc.
• cold water fish such as halibut, mackerel, salmon, trout, and tuna
• nuts such as almonds, pecans, and walnuts

It also indicates that vitamin E, C, B12, and folate may be helpful.

Found on YouTube listed here are free video lectures from the University of California at Berkeley. Lectures include physics, biology, search engines, and more.

You can watch “The Hidden Epidemic - Heart Disease In America” on PBS website linked here.

An eleven part podcast series is available on the web linked here. Dr. Michael F. Roizen talks with Julie Bain from Reader’s Digest about tips for a health heart.

You can watch episodes of “Wired Science” linked here. They got some interesting science features.

Watch this video by Robert Krulwich that explains why the atom carbon is central to understanding the global warming process. It got some nice humorous cartoons to make the learning fun. It is in 5 parts; so make sure you scroll down and play the episodes in order.

Take a look at the beautiful pavement art by Julian Beever. Some of them look so realistic that they appear three-dimensional. And with the camera angle adjusted just right, you can get this amazing illusion.

Peter Callesen created some unique paper art as found here.

Check out Photoshop guru Bert Monroy artpiece found on the web here.
This is not a photograph. He drew and painted it in Photoshop and Illustrator. The closeup shows amazing and realistic details. It took about 2000 hours to create this piece consisting of over 15000 layers in about 50 files. Even after flattening the image, the file takes up 1.7 GB of disk space.

Photographer Matt Stuart have the uncanny ability to capture shots at just the right moment. Some of his photos found on the web here can be quite humorous.

Or visit Matt’s official site at http://www.mattstuart.com/

Watch video here. Video of a lecture titled “The World is Flat” where Thomas L. Friedman talks about globalization in business. This talk was given at MIT. Thomas Friedman is author of the books The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11, and of course The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century