Isn’t this one of those uplifting projects that restores your faith in humanity? A group of geeks are taking over a bunch of satellites to beam useful information down to Earth that everybody, wherever they are, can receive. Dubbed “Humanity’s public Library”, Outernet, which is still in an early testing phase, intends to provide information…
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Armadillo is a new and talented musician who is making his work free for download. Although he has currently only 11 tracks on his site (hey! But that’s still like a whole CD’s worth!), they are all uniformly great. Armadillo is equally proficient with chamber music, disco, funk and 8-bit game-like tracks. Armadillo promises to…
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The Internet has become a rich source of dark tales. Tonight we bring you some free sites and projects that are creepy, unsettling or downright terrifying. WARNING: The sites reviewed below are not recommended for children or those faint of heart. Seriously. You have been warned. Twice now. The SCP Foundation To protect humanity against…
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RACHEL (Remote Areas Community Hotspots for Education and Learning) is a Linux distro designed to be used with a Raspberry Pi. The Pi is then used as a server in computer classrooms with bad or no Internet connections. Although RACHEL is very similar to the stock Raspbian distribution, it also sets up a web server and…
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The Folger Shakespeare Library is sharing tens of thousands of high resolution images on their site covering book covers, inside pages from original volumes, manuscripts, engravings, and costumes. The detailed and high quality photos and scans are free for use for any purpose, as long as you attribute the Library. [Show slideshow] The only problem…
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Whether you’re a budding indie director or just want to make your home videos much more interesting, you should check out Ritwika Mitra’s YouTube Channel. In her videos, Ritwika explains how to create dollies and rigs, record high quality audio outside, and get the best out of your video equipment, always using stuff you can…
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OpenCulture.com, apart from serving up engrossing daily articles and videos on art, literature, and culture in general; contains within its sidebars a true treasure trove of links to free books, films, courses, language lessons, and lectures. WARNING: Visiting this site can seriously impair your work productivity. Do you run a site like OpenCulture.com and would…
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Aaron Swartz was a brilliant computer programmer and activist who helped develop the RSS news feed protocol, co-founded Reddit, developed the web.py framework, and helped shape the Creative Commons licensing system. At fourteen he was authoring documents for the World Wide Web Consortium. At fifteen he was working alongside the likes of Tim Berners-Lee and…
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Harry van Haaren is busy developing a modern suite of music software applications for musicians who use Linux and who want to use Free and Open Source software for their creations. So far Harry has developed Lupp, a music creation tool intended for live use; Fabla, an open-source LV2 drum sampler plugin instrument; Sorcer, a…
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Always on the look out for new resources, we came upon the Internet Archive’s Book Images account on Flickr. The account contains well over 2 million images in the public domain, that is, pictures with copyrights that have elapsed or were deliberately placed in the public domain to start with. Some are weird, obscure and…
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York is creating an ever expanding library of art books that users can freely read online and, in many cases, download as high quality PDFs for reading offline. The books are lavishly illustrated, written by top experts in the field, and cover all eras, styles and geographic regions.…
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A new restrictive copyright legislation, ready to be passed into law in Spain, may very well hinder the interchange of ideas and render all Creative Commons and other copyleft licenses useless. Known as the “Google Tax”, the law establishes that news aggregation sites (such as Google News, Menéame, Reddit, Digg, and others) should pay a…
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