Hey. I know where you can get some music online. Shhh!
Why am I whispering? It’s all legal. You get to listen to streaming audio online for free. If you hear something you like (or love), you can shell out to download high quality tracks, or even have a CD printed and shipped to you. It’s [...]
MIT’s OpenCourseWare project is giving free access to all their course notes, exams, recorded lectures and other course materials. All the material is open access and open content. MIT does not confer degrees for working through the OCW materials, but you are free to educate yourself.
I’ve tried using some of the OCW material, and it’s [...]
After years of hype about the semantic web, we finally have an application.
Powerset has launched a public beta of it’s Wikipedia search engine, and it’s overflowing with semantic web technology. Get more details here.
Protein Scientist David Baker and game designer Zoran Popović have created an online game called Foldit that they hope will become the future of protein engineering. You can download and play the game for free, and you’ll be doing actual bioengineering!
Foldit attempts to predict the structure of a protein by taking advantage of [...]
I originally wrote this post about a year ago, when I was still playing with Drupal as a blogging platform. It somehow got lost in the conversion to Wordpress. What was gratifying back then was that Charles Stross posted a related talk that he gave a couple of days later. It was nice to know [...]
