Category: Culture
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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).…
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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…
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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…
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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:…
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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…