Google Tech Talks are a superb source for information on a variety of topics. (YouTube channel)
And last week I found this interesting forum(?) post over at reddit: Suggestions for - ‘Must Watch Google Tech Talks’
I personally haven’t watched that many talks, mostly because I just have no time, but I think the “Human Computation” one is very interesting, even for “non-technical persons”.
I found this not too long ago.
I think it’s quite impressive.
You can read more about it and how it was done in a nice series of articles over at Twenty Sided. Start with the first one called Procedural City, Part 1: Introduction.
Oh, and the source code is available over at Google Code.
Btw, the background music can be downloaded for free over at Jamendo. The artist is called Oursvince and because they released their music under the CC license you can download their album(s) for free.
I love CC and OSS.
