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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-07-03

Mishka Bloglin » Blog Archive » At the Halfsies: Music in 2009 From what I hear, the new APTBS record is amazing. Aside from that, you really can’t touch that Fever Ray record. (tags: aptbs)

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Open Access, Network Economy

The first two links deal with open access to information. The first is a presented as a parable that tells of an inventor who has a great idea and develops it into a product. However, the truckers, the ones who control the distribution lines will not agree to distribute it unless the inventor signs over […]

Copyright and multimedia on the Web

So if you have come across some media on the Web that you like what can you legally do with it? The term legally is important here, because for any item on the Web (a network) we know we can make an exact copy it and save it on our computer or a memory card/stick […]

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Image searching sites

Here are a couple of sites that seem useful when searching for images. Exalead Image Search Discover the most innovative image search engine in the world: almost 2 billion images with totally exclusive filtering features. (tags: photos iamge search searchengine) Pixsy | search millions of images and videos Search sites where others upload images (tags: […]

Security and password links for 2009-06-30

Two articles from Infoworld. One about the benefits of PGP and the other on password strength. The second includes a spreadsheet for calculating how long it might take to determine a password. Internet crimes to be proud of | Security Central – InfoWorld Thanks to Pretty Good Privacy encryption creator Phil Zimmermann for software that […]

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In the Beginning … Was the Command Line

In the Beginning…was the Command Line A short, interesting book that is a related series of essays about the relationship between Unix or Linux with a way to understand a computer. This is overlayed with a discussion of the superiority of Unix/Linux to the major windowed operating systems, OsX and Windows. A particularly interesting and […]

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Where to find multimedia on the Web

You can’t avoid it. The hardware and software technology that supports the Web makes it relatively easy and quite natural to make information in all sorts of formats – text, images, audio, video – available. With a high speed connection to the Internet you can experience all these formats quite easily. Virtually all the news […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-06-29

Four new names to tick :: Blog :: Pukkelpop 2009 The sound of A Place To Bury Strangers owes a lot to My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus & Mary Chain. The band knows how to build a genuine wall of sound. They shoegaze when the volume is extremely high. If you want evidence of […]

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Free Online Courses, Tutorials, iPod Utilities

How to Get Free College Education Online | eHow.com Information is now readily available and exchangeable faster than ever before, mostly due to the Internet. This instant sharing of knowledge has changed people’s lives, and whatever it is you want to learn about is just a mouse click away. Online schools are profiting from this […]

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Multimedia on the Web (Introduction)

If something can be digitized, put into some digital format, then it is likely to be available on the Web.  So it is reasonable to expect be able to access photos, still images, audio recordings, and video. Almost all of the music we listen to, and almost all of the pictures and videos we take […]

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