SublimeVideo. javascript plugin for controlling video in html5. looks nice.

HotDocs Doc Library. the hotdocs film festival has a site where you can watch a ton of documentaries from past festivals including one of my all-time hotdocs faves Lifelike (about competitive taxidermists and highly entertaining).

First-person perspective of a bus crash. now that’s some crazy youtube clip.

DAVID SIMON – Vice Magazine. long interview with the creator of The Wire.

Winners gallery 2010 – World Press Photo. some great photos.

36 hours in Vancouver – NYTimes.com. Vij’s & Rangoli are going to be so stupidly busy for the next 3 weeks. People line up there before the restaurant opens on a normal day let along during the olympics.

Quicksand: Awesome jQuery plugin to filter/animate HTML lists. some more cool demos in this video.

Introduction to Square. great intro video showing off new payment app for iphone.

Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop on Vimeo. a thought provoking little video about augmented reality and advertising.

Riak – A Decentralized, Internet-Scale Data Store. yet another nosql project. lots of ideas from amazon’s dynamo. interesting stuff about how they handle relationships and querying via map-reduce functions.

Uniform – Sexy forms with jQuery. form element replacements with a couple themes. not bad.

Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord – NYTimes.com. if you find yourself doing karaoke in manila, make sure you don’t sing “My Way”.

Bookbook – Twelve South. quite the fancy case for your macbook. via kyle

shutup.css. custom css file to hide comments from sites like cnn.com and the globe and mail. i didn’t know safari could do this.

Facebook Developers | HipHop for PHP: Move Fast. Facebook is open-sourcing a php to c compiler that they said reduced their CPU footprint by 50%. They mention that facebook is doing 400B page views a month. that’s 154K per SECOND.

Kayak.com offers up Lost flight | The Social – CNET News. If you search for a one-way flight from Sydney to LA it includes Oceanic flight 815. Nice easter egg.

New Tables and Seating by Cerno ยป CONTEMPORIST. desk is nice.

thestar.com iPhone : Raj Patel coming to Toronto for free talk. looks interesting. author of The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy. via josh.

Rails 3 Reading Material. list of blog posts with info about Rails 3. Handy since every post seems to be outdated 2 weeks later.

China Is Leading the Race to Make Renewable Energy – NYTimes.com. they’re now the biggest producer of wind turbines.