LectureFox is a cool resource if you have an interest in academic subjects and want to kill some time. The LectureFox site contains a growing catalogue of links to lecture materials (video, audio, and notes) from distinguished universities such as Harvard, Yale and Oxford.
The lectures are skewed towards the sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Math, and [...]
WOW Insider has an interview with Noor, a World of Warcraft player who is progressing through the game without resorting to killing. It can’t be much fun playing this way and his chances of reaching level 80 are slim but kudos for trying.
Back in November 2007, columnist John Himes took a look at a [...]
The TV-Links website has been shut down and it’s 26-year-old operator arrested after a raid by Gloucestershire Police in cooperation with an anti-piracy group called Fact (Federation Against Copyright Theft).
What’s disturbing about this is TV-Links didn’t host any of the movies or shows themselves. All they did was link to videos on YouTube, Google [...]
I found this pretty amusing. Kim Jong-Il has told delegates at the recent inter-Korean summit that he is an Internet expert. Apparently he doesn’t like what he sees on the net because he’s reluctant to allow people further access. Sounds to me like he just wants to keep all the porn to himself.
Kim [...]
After being shut down back in 2004 it looked unlikely that Suprnova.org would return. But thanks to the guys from The Pirate Bay it has finally been relaunched and not surprisingly has a lot of people excited.
It’s a bittorrent site, so you know what to expect, but the design is clean and easy to [...]
I haven’t got much love for Microsoft but they do seem to get the finger pointed at them a lot these days. Has anyone accused Microsoft of being the cause of global warming yet?
From the official Skype blog:
On Thursday, 16th August 2007, the Skype peer-to-peer network became unstable and suffered a critical disruption. The [...]
Techcrunch has a story linking to a blog containing the source code to the Facebook index page. They are speculating that the source code was leaked but after doing a little digging it appears that a faulty web server may have been responsible.
The source code for profile.php was posted at NerdLife and was taken [...]
It was only a matter of time till someone cracked the Netflix “Watch Now” DRM. For a step by step guide check out this thread on the Rorta forums. There’s a bit of work involved but it doesn’t look too difficult.
If techies were in charge of road signs this is the kind of thing you could expect to see on a regular basis. Mind you someone was lazy here. Where’s the 301 redirect to the clear road on the right?
[via TechEBlog]
The guys from Common Craft have created yet another great video tutorial, this time explaining social bookmarking.
If you missed them, their previous videos covering RSS and Wikis are worth checking out as well.
