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≡ Category: Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
This musical bit is easier watched than described. Click through, start the 20 videos playing in any order/timing that you want, and see what you get. You can read the FAQ for the InB b 2.0 project here. Thanks V for the tip!
≡ Category: Books, Literature | ≅ Leave a Comment
Vladimir Nabokov wanted his last unfinished novel destroyed (learn more about it here). But, 32 years after his death, the book is being published. You can buy The Original of Laura starting Tuesday. Meanwhile, you can also read through a few excerpts thanks to the Times Online.
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 2 Comments
Take a quick trip back in time, to 1890. Here you can listen to Pyotr Tchaikovsky (The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, etc.)Â and other eminent musicians having some fun, recording their voices on a then new-fangled technology, the phonograph cylinder, invented by Thomas Edison in 1870. To get a transcript of what the friends had to [...]
≡ Category: Science | ≅ 1 Comment
The pattern always repeats itself. Civilizations rise and fall. Then new ones take their place. But, something else may be about to happen. There might be an impending collapse of our entire global civilization. Not one major civilization, but the entire global civilization, gone. Or, so that’s how Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich sees it. Ehrlich, [...]
≡ Category: Television | ≅ 1 Comment
Today, Clicker.com comes out of beta and promises to become the complete guide to Internet Television. Currently, the site “contains more than 450,000 episodes, from over 6,000 shows, from over 1,200 networks, tens of thousands of movies, and 50,000 music videos from 20,000 artists.” The content (all apparently legal) is generally supplied by other content [...]
≡ Category: Music, Physics, Science | ≅ 2 Comments
For the past couple of months, A Glorious Dawn, a mashup melding Stephen Hawking’s voice with scenes from Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, has been making its way around the blogosphere. Now, on the eve of what would have been Sagan’s 75th birthday (he died in 1996), A Glorious Dawn has been officially released as a single [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
Two weeks ago, I posted a collection of 20 sites where you can watch free movies online. Thanks to your help, the page now features 30 Places to Watch Free Movies Online, and I hope to keep it growing. Below, I have featured five of the new additions, which includes many important classics. Please feel [...]
≡ Category: History | ≅ Leave a Comment
When I traveled to East Berlin in 1988, my first time as a youngster, I read reports of a split between the hardline East German regime and the opening Soviet government. But nobody really paid much attention to that news. Less than a year later, the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall would be gone, [...]
≡ Category: History, Literature | ≅ Leave a Comment
Excellent find by Stephen Grant…Â You can now experience the battle lines of World War I in Second Life, thanks to The First World War Poetry Digital Archive and the Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University. WWI shocked the Western world with its landscape-changing warfare and high tech carnage. Remembrances of “The Great War” live on [...]
≡ Category: Law | ≅ Leave a Comment
Last year, Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Stanford, gave what was supposed to be his last talk on the modern copyright regime that once benefited creativity but now stifles it and brings big bucks to corporations. But, at EDUCAUSE last week, he came back as the keynote speaker and returned to these still-burning issues once [...]
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