Category: Social issues
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Music without limits
The recent news lead me to talk again about digital music and its cohabitation (or lack of) with network technology. As a matter of fact, we learn this week that our new French President is in favor of a strong action against pirated music and downloads. This is not very new, indeed, but the confirmation…
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Internet Archive of spiders
The Internet Archive contains hundreds or thousands of movies. Today, they show a list of movies specifically about spiders. Weird, isn’t it?
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Borneo rhino on video
Borneo rhinoceros is certainly an endangered species with only a few dozen individuals alive. The first photo of one was shot only last year, but the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) project has published the first video staging a Borneo rhino. Source: The Guardian.
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AllAboutJazz.com is DRM free
This is free advertising for a major launch of a DRM-free online store: AllAboutJazz.com sells jazz music online without any DRM included.
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250,000 Tibetans resettled by Chinese authorities
Chinese authorities have placed Tibet under their jurisdiction in 1950. Since then, the country has been submitted to a regime that, even compared to the usual Chinese standards, can be considered extreemely hard. Today, we learn that 250,000 Tibetans (1/10th of the Tibet population) have been relocated to new villages of the “comfortable housing program“.…
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Free quality audio books
There is certainly not as much titles as on LibriVox that we previously presented you here on Roumazeilles.net, but SimplyAudioBooks compensates with the perfectly professional quality of the recordings. You will find there English litterature reference works read by pros.
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Galapagos: bad news and hope
The Galapagos islands have earned years ago the inscription to UNESCO’s World Heritage. You have to admit that their unique situation (recognized ince the founding travel of Charles Darwin and confirmd by innumerable TV documentaries like those from Cousteau) was quite understandable. But New Scientist tells us that this privileged status may be lost to…