For Pete’s asking about the image resizing thing-a-majig… here are a few links.
An online version is available (albeit a guessed copy not the original), Shai Avidan (the thing-a-majig creator) was hired by Adobe days after the video came out, and for those who use GIMP there is a Liquid Rescale plugin that is another attempt at the original functionality. Can’t wait to see what Shai comes up with at Adobe :)