Bored of star world? Watched all of your DVD’s? Football doesn’t start for another six hours? Then it’s time fetch some popcorn relax in your easy chair and prove what a nerd you are by spending the afternoon watching programming lectures on Yahoo Video! 

Yahoo’s Front End Engineering Channel has a fantastic collection of video lectures from people such as Douglas Crockford and John Resig (creator of JQuery, author of Pro JavaScript). Watching these reminds me a lot of being back at college, the only difference being the lecturers’ are actually making sense and I haven’t got a dry mouth and the munchies (there may be a link there).

The Douglas Crockford lectures on advanced JavaScript are particularly informative. Admittedly it’s nothing that you can’t read in JavaScript The Definitive Guide, and even though I write code using these techniques everyday I always gain moments of clarity when receiving information via the spoken rather than often verbose written word.

You can browse all of the lectures here:  video.yahoo.com/video/group

And here’s the first of the Douglas Crockford lectures: