Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Unlimited Free Hours of Fun...

As Marky's place in NC doesn't have a TV I can watch without it echoing all over the loft, I've been delving into the wonders of iPod-fodder. I've been a big fan of the TED.org talks for years, and this next link is one of the reasons why...

Brewster Kahle: A digital library, free to the world
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/brewster_kahle_builds_a_free_digital_library.html
Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library -- every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history ... It's all free to the public -- unless someone else gets to it first.

http://www.archive.org/index.php
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections.