AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
Quoted a manfesto of Herzog where he sneers at cinema verité, that gave me a small sad since I have fond memories of Ricky Leacock at MIT Media Lab. JFM defended it later on though. Yay. And he does an excellent Herzog impersonation.
The comparison to the scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey of the lunar version of the monolith – spot on.
Some discussion of what Herzog is generally trying to do – is he a nihilist? Not really. He's trying to uncover and portray forces in the world that are larger than humanity (and may not care about us – that can sound like nihilism).