You know how Jon Stewart shows politicians contradicting themselves on news clips? Do it yourself by searching a giant database of TV transcripts and video on Internet Archive. The collection now contains 350,000 news programs collected since 2009 from national U.S. networks and stations. The archive is updated with new broadcasts 24 hours after they are aired. Older materials are being added.
posted to MetaFilter by stbalbach at 7:19 PM on September 17, 2012 (22 comments)

See history roll over the world. Today, the Internet Archive has released to the world an archive of all news programs on nearly every major television channel from 9/11/2001 to 9/16/2001. This exhibit, called Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive provides a grid navigation system of these many hours of footage from dozens of worldwide news programs and gives us a comprehensive overview of television's reaction to 9/11, on 9/11.
posted to MetaFilter by jscott at 12:28 PM on August 24, 2011 (59 comments)

Internet Archive - probably the single largest depository of Open Source content (and the Wayback Machine) - has transitioned its data center from racks of Linux machines to a Sun MD, basically a 3 petabyte data center housed in a liquid cooled shipping container, currently sitting in Sun's Santa Clara campus court yard. Sun and IA have put together an interesting interactive tour of how it works and what it looks like.
posted to MetaFilter by stbalbach at 3:52 PM on March 25, 2009 (36 comments)

What's the hardest dining reservation to score? French Laundry? Nope. El Bulli? Non. D.C.'s minibar? Not even close.
posted to MetaFilter by shiu mai baby at 7:10 PM on October 1, 2008 (54 comments)

The Wall Street bailout proposal has prompted Bill Kristol and Paul Krugman to write identically-minded columns opposing the plan.
posted to MetaFilter by pjenks at 2:29 AM on September 22, 2008 (191 comments)

Learn Spanish with podcasts from SpanishSense.
posted to MetaFilter by klue at 6:54 AM on May 20, 2007 (14 comments)