Category: Books
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Free audio books
Librivox is a web site where you will find audiobooks read and recorded by volunteers who give them freely to you and any visitor. It is mostly english books and works, but there starts to appear a few non-english literature (some French, some German, for example). The selected works are part of the public domain…
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Wild animals have a web site to show their best
This is really the feeling you have when you visit the web site of Christine and Michel Denis-Huot where you will find some of their best images or those that were most successful, from their work as wildlife photographers. I heartily recommend the images primées (awards). Michel and Christine spend months out of their home…
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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…
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Free Science Fiction in MP3
Science fiction author James Patrick Kelly podcasts some of his works as MP3s. His stories were published in famous SciFi magazines like Asimov’s Science Fiction and The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
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ThePirateBay is back online
Merely a few days after their server computers were seized by the Swedish police, ThePirateBay.org is already back online. It appears that as any global private company, ThePirateBay.org really had a crash recovery plan prepared to correct extreme circumstances like those found last Wednesday. The new server is located in Netherlands (an additional server has…
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ThePirateBay: some more
The latest news in the battle between the entertainment industry and the (previously) world’s largest BitTorrent tracker site. The owners of ThePirateBay.org, still very sure of the legality of their web site (and it seems that they some good points drawn from the Swedish law), announced that they would be seeking for compensation from the…
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ThePirateBay: We’ll be back
That’s the message that the owners of ThePirateBay.org are sending right now. They expect to come back within a day or two. Woa! If they go as quick as that, it seems they were ready or prepared. I’m not sure that the entertainment industry was expecting such a fast move. I did not.
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ThePirateBay.org: Servers seized by police
The world biggest indexation site for BitTorrent contents, ThePirateBay.org, would consider itself totally immune from actions from copyright holders associations (like the American RIAA and MPAA) because of its geographical location in Sweeden. As a matter of fact, in this Scandinavian country indexing contents (showing where to find them and not providing them by yourself)…