A great Michael Pollan talk at Google, where he questions nutrition in the hacker way: boiling nutrition down to simple rules based on fact. The root philosophy?

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. –Unhappy Meals, NYT

His thesis is bigger than that, though, and his method of deconstructing what we believe about nutrition is interesting. Really, why do we believe what we hear about nutrition when it clearly isn’t working?

Randall Munroe, the author of the brilliant xkcd comic, has a Google author talk on YouTube. And is that Knuth asking him questions? (Or is it a joke?)

Some examples of the Metisse window manager, now included in Mandriva’s fine Linux distribution. See the Metisse home for project details. It’s fun to watch the ideas fly by with the various new window managers. (via).

Another Google Tech talk video, looking at some of the new features in the next C++ standard. Required viewing for C++ mavens.

Linus Torvalds talks about Git at Google Video:

“If you like CVS you should be in some mental institution …”

Richard Hipp gives a Google Talk about his SQLite engine. SQLite is a small, slick SQL engine that offers most of SQL92, a small footprint (single file), and great performance on desktops and handheld systems.

The entire set of available Google TechTalks are available on Google Video, as is an RSS feed of the newest talks.

An interesting Google talk on How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People.

Democracy TV’s Ubuntu repository. Democracy is a cross platform internet-abled video player.

An old promotional video for Longhorn. It’s looking a bit different these days, and only 3 years late.