Peoples Archive

I recently stumbled across a rather cool website called Peoples Archive. It has tons of short videos with “the world’s greatest thinkers, creators, and achievers.” While some of the categories seem to have sparser coverage than others, it’s still a wonderful idea (sort of like TED but in miniature), and it’s been cool to hear the stories of people like Donald Knuth (computer scientist, creator of the TeX typesetting system, and I’m betting only two or three of you have even heard of it :P) and Stan Lee (creator of Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, the X-Men, and so on).

Incidentally, I wonder why comics like those are so enthralling. (Just witness how many of them have been made into movies in the last few years.) That deserves its own blog post, I think…

I’ve heard of him! :)

And on behalf of the all feminists out there, I hope they throw some women in there sometime. I don’t usually pay that much attention to these things, but the first thing I noticed was that the front page was a sea of old, white men.

So I don’t know Donald Knuth, but I certainly know TeX. I’m TeX’s biggest fan.

Andy: Haha, that’s a good point. It’d be great to get some women on there. TED seems to have a nice equal distribution, by the way.

Xister: Mmm, TeX. Someday I’ll blog more about TeX… :)