Vi Hart, the immensely entertaining mathematician/piano player and vlogger, has put out a video that, in classic Hartish fashion, explains the cause and the issues behind the attack on Net Neutrality in terms everybody can understand and without actually dumbing down the matter.
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After I wrote my review on several WYSIWYG editors that Linux folks might want to use to hone their HTML and CSS skills, I got several aggressive suggestions for additional products and tools. It was an offer I could not refuse, and you might want to narrate this in a slightly asthmatic voice of Marlon…
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Fabrice Bellard has just introduced the BPG (Better Portable Graphics) format to the world, an image format that achieves amazing quality at a fraction of the size of prior formats.
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Kevin McLeod is one of those artists who you don’t know you love until someone points him out to you. And then, suddenly, he seems to be everywhere.
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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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Mozilla is seeking applicants for its Open Web Fellowship 2015 programme. Successful candidates will work with organisations such as ACLU, Amnesty International and Free Press, developing technologies, drafting policies, organising communities, and running campaigns, all oriented towards protecting the free flow of information over the Internet. If you think you should belong to the “band…
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Using nearly exclusively the free Blender 3D and compositing software and a lot of talent, the Karma Pirates crew have created DYNAMO – a Sci-Fi web series that defies explanation and that has to be seen to be believed. Be warned that in Dynamo conventional story structures are thrown to the wind, and the action…
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Sharefest is an online sharing service that uses modern web technologies to share files over P2P-like protocol, but without having to use a dedicated P2P app. All the process is handled within your web browser (see Caveat below). From a user’s point of view, drag and drop a file on the box at Sharefest.me and…
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