Category: Culture

  • Universal: All the music free to download

    I guess that such a title had you think that you would find the address of a pirate web site. But Universal announced the signature of a two-year deal with SpiralFrog : all the Universal catalog in free legal download. Two things are included in the deal (to explain it): The whole thing will be…

  • Free movie: His Girl Friday

    Free movie: His Girl Friday

    Download from Internet Archive Movie information from IMDB.org Some may believe that free movies and public domain films come only from low-budgets, B series (or Z series) and cheap cinematographic efforts. This is not always the case and, today, we want to stop at one movie with famous great actors and that can be easily…

  • Native HDCP at nVidia and ATI

    Those hoping that the future graphic cards supporting HD-TV (High Definition TV) and being compliant with the HDCP encryption standard would stay easy-to-hack will have to forget about their dreams. Just one after the other, nVidia and ATI announced that they would not stay long with the graphic chipset + HDCP chipset solutions of today…

  • On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog

    I really love this sentence that says so much about the freedom and the dangers on the Internet. The above cartoon by Peter Steiner has been reproduced from page 61 of July 5, 1993 issue of The New Yorker, (Vol.69 (LXIX) no. 20) only for academic discussion, evaluation, research and complies with the copyright law…

  • Free movie: The night of the living dead

    Free movie: The night of the living dead

    Download from Internet Archive Movie information from IMDB.org The grand-daddy of all gore and zombie movies. A cult movie. George Romero invented nearly all when he did this film. A group of people isolated from the rest of the world in a farm is assaultd by flesh-eating and blood-thirsty zombies (living dead eating human flesh).…

  • Vasile Botnaru, journalist and artist

    Vasile Botnaru, journalist and artist

    Basil, as he’s better known among his friends, is a journalist from Chisinau, Moldova. While his activities in this field are quite notable, Vasile Botnaru is also an artist I have been appreciating deeply for several years. I thought it was time to give his work some additional light. You will find here an Internet…

  • A flower for a web site

    A flower for a web site

    Sometimes, technique will give bend towards art. I found a web site that computes a graphical representation of a web site structure. It’s beautiful enough to surprise you. You can click on the thumbnails to see the flowers in their full bloom. Roumazeilles.net Sirenomelia.org SpamAnti.net lexyk.com There’s everything here: Complexity, groupings, organisation, contents. But this…

  • Science in Science-Fiction

    Sci-Fi usually includes a lot of science. It has sometimes been said that it is mostly bad science, but it is science anyway. The serious scientists of the Sci-Fi Science web site give us a lot of details about what we will find or what we should notice in famous SciFi novels and movies. Examples:…

  • Pirate party, 1, 2, 3

    There was already a Pirate Party in Sweeden (along with ThePirateBay.org): Piratpartiet. But things are speeding up neatly in those days with the appearance of two French-speaking parties: In France, le Parti Pirate prepares actively the Presidential elections of next year. In Belgium, le Parti Pirate. But, of course, this is only part of it…