Textbooks Hit The Torrents

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Mmmm, torrents!

Mmmm, torrents! 04/27/2004 03:53 PM
So, I've been fiddling around with BitTorrent and all the variant clients. And... I like it. A lot. The shared downloading and easily resumable downloads make it a keen thing indeed. It turns out that BitTornado, one of the variant clients, does apply a global rate cap if you're serving multiple files up. This is good as Bittorrent clients'll eat all the available bandwidth, and then some, if given the chance. Not a huge problem for client-only systems, or systems with big upstream pipes, but for me with a smallish (192K) upstream pipe, well... running multiple torrents wouldn't be an...

Five Free Calculus Textbooks

Five Free Calculus Textbooks 03/08/2004 11:02 PM

Other News: Textbooks on Laptops

Other News: Textbooks on Laptops 04/26/2004 10:22 AM
It makes a lot of sense; now let's get textbooks on the Mac, too.

Stanford: Textbooks for Idiots

Stanford: Textbooks for Idiots 03/26/2005 10:03 PM
March 17 I decided to take a look at the Introductory Psych textbook (written by Dr. Zimbardo) before tomorrow’s final….

Government docs torrents

Government docs torrents 03/31/2005 05:48 PM
Cory Doctorow: Thad sez,

Wanted to tell you guys about some more cool new torrents I've put up:

- Commission on Intelligence Capabilities WMD report & other key WMD documents
- Betamax legal documents
- Betamax mp3s
- National Security Archive Pre-9/11 intelligence documents

Link (Thanks, Thad!)

Daily Show torrents

Daily Show torrents 06/05/2005 11:42 PM
Cory Doctorow: Jeff sez, "CommonBits, the progressive media directory, has links to torrents of new Daily Show clips:"

• Crimes Tom DeLay Hasn't Committed
• Stephen Colbert on Deep Throat
• Bush-Cheney on Amnesty International (we know a gulag when we see one)
• Will Arlen Specter live long enough to see Bush veto his stem cell research legislation?
• Jon Stewart interviews Gerald Posner author of Secrets of the Kingdom
• Rob Cordry on Gas Prices
• Sunday Justice with Stephen Colbert
• Jon Stewart interviews Floyd Abrams author of Speak Freely

Link (Thanks, Jeff!)

Baen ebooks CDs as .torrents

Baen ebooks CDs as .torrents 04/29/2004 07:41 AM
Baen Books is a successful science fiction publisher that releases a lot of its titles as non-DRM text/html files via its website and on CDROMs bound into its book. Now, all six of the Baen CDs, representing a substantial library of science fiction, are available as Bit Torrent files, to be gang-downloaded to all comers at speed. Link (Thanks, Robotech Master!)

Saudi textbooks demonize "infidels"

Saudi textbooks demonize "infidels" 07/14/2004 09:49 AM
Among the lessons in the country's approved school books: "All religions other than Islam are false."

Free textbooks for Cisco training

Free textbooks for Cisco training 06/21/2004 10:31 AM
A Cisco networking instructor got sick of Cisco price-gouging his students for textbooks so he wrote his own and is giving away the electronic edition and selling the print edition through Lulu for $20 -- and he gets a $5 for every copy sold.

Tired of seeing his students pay exorbitant prices for Cisco Systems' high end computer training textbooks, Basham found a way to give the information away for free.

He wrote an 800-page, two-volume manual of numbers, formulas and test tips that can be obtained by anyone who sends him an e-mail.

Link (Thanks, Jon!)

Notebooks Replace Textbooks in Texas

Notebooks Replace Textbooks in Texas 04/27/2004 03:55 PM

Creationist revisionism creeps into
school textbooks

Creationist revisionism creeps into
school textbooks 11/04/2003 02:26 PM
Decisions in Texas next week over school textbooks could change the way the that science is taught in many US...

Amateur video footage of tsunami on
bl0gs, torrents

Amateur video footage of tsunami on
bl0gs, torrents 12/29/2004 08:31 PM
Xeni Jardin: Waxy.org has been collecting amateur video footage, here's a roundup post: Link. Punditguy has more: Link

Chris Holland says,

I've used prodigem to create torrents for the South Asia tsunami videos. The more people use this torrent, the faster everyone else will be able to download the videos. See also this page to make it easy for people to put an amazon donation badge on their sites.

Link

Copyfight debate of the century video
and audio torrents

Copyfight debate of the century video
and audio torrents 04/19/2005 03:38 AM
Cory Doctorow: Last week's Cornell Debate between EFF senior IP attorney Fred Von Lohmann, copyfighting media studies prof Siva Vaidhyanathan, and counsel from the MPAA, RIAA, Napster 2 and Universal was astounding, the most engrossing three hours of video I've watched all month.

Unfortunately and inexplicably, this was only available as a crappy, dropout-prone Real stream from Cornell, which meant you couldn't load the audio onto your iPod or download the video to show your friends later.

Now someone's converted the video to something else (not sure what) and posted a .torrent, packaged with soemthing called "Matroska" that seems like a good way to add bookmarks and such to video (I'd be interested in knowing whether this packaging presents any barrier to someone who simply wants to download the video and watch it in her player of choice). There's also an Ogg of the audio available (I'd love to see this converted to MP3 for iPod users and posted as a Torrent!). Video Torrent Link, Ogg Torrent Link

Doctor Who And Rose Meet The Evil
Internet Bit Torrents

Doctor Who And Rose Meet The Evil
Internet Bit Torrents 03/25/2005 11:13 PM
London News Review Mar 26 2005 3:07AM GMT

Tsunami update: Microsoft responds,
bl0ggers organize, video torrents

Tsunami update: Microsoft responds,
bl0ggers organize, video torrents 12/30/2004 04:48 PM
Xeni Jardin: A quick roundup of items related to the tsunami disaster. Image: mannequin in pile of wreckage in Thailand, shot by blogger and NBC correspondent Kevin Sites who is on assignment in Asia covering the story. (Link)

*Following up on a previous BoingBoing post, an anonymous Microsoft employee says:

Responding to this: "Reader J. Hahn says, "I am particularly impressed with Amazon.com's Red Cross donation counter that proves Americans are not 'stingy.' Also, as a Mac user, I was proud to go to the apple.com site and see not one product ad on their front page - just links to aid and donation sites, and Microsoft had not one mention of the disaster."

Most of Microsoft's efforts regarding Tsunami relief is focused internally. MS offers a dollar for dollar charitable donation match to all FTE, and is doing everything it can to expidite the process of trying to get the money to where it will do the most good.

* Tsunami Outreach: Bloggers Without Borders' first international project launched last night. Link (Thanks, Sean)

* BoingBoing reader Nicholas Bentley says,

"Hello Xeni, We thought you might be interested in passing on the news of one person's great efforts for tsunami relief. We wanted to donate to a tsunami relief effort with our funds in a PayPal account but had difficulty finding an agency that took PayPal. Eventually we found Kevin McDonald's site where he is doing a fantastic job of collecting PayPal contributions and passing them on to AmeriCares (AmeriCares disaster relief has a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator.) Kevin has even persuaded AmeriCare's webmaster to see about accepting PayPal transfers direct in the near future."

*BoingBoing reader Chris Cummer says,

Family members of a close personal friend of mine are still missing in Thailand. Her father and brother have flown there to try and find them, as this Globe and Mail article details, but the help of the blog community would also be greatly appreciated. I've posted a request for help on my blog at Mi ssing in Khao Lak, Thailand. Hopefully someone might have some information for a Canadian family that's been living on the edge of grief for five days now.

Related: see this "missing persons" wiki page (Link ), and a blog devoted to linking missing persons with their loved ones: Link. And the Red Cross has launched a "Family Links" web page where family members can search for missing relatives’ names: Link. "The information is not verified or tracked by either the ICRC or the American Red Cross but is offered by the ICRC as a stand-alone internet tool for inquirers to use on their own."

* Reader Roberto says, "Every year at this time, I empty my jar full of loose change. But this year I discovered I could donate to the Red Cross (among other charities including UNICEF) from a Coinstar machine at my drugstore. And big kid that I am, I had fun playing with the machine." Link.

* Reader Chris Holland says,

I stumbled upon Austin's Blog who's done a fine job of gathering more videos. So earthlink homepage servers don't get creamed, I've created this torrent gathering 5 of the videos from his blog that weren't already covered in the previous torrent which is still available here. Remember, the more people click those torrent links, the easier and faster it is for everybody else to download them too. And try to keep the torrent opened for as long as possible even after you're done downloading. Big Kudos to prodigem's very easy-to-use torrent service. Link

* Andy Carvin says,

I've just set up a tsunami news digest using the news aggregator Kinja.com. The page contains latest news feeds and first-person blogs related to the tsunami disaster from around the globe. I'd like to see others add their own tsunami-related feeds to the site. If you have a news feed or blog that's focusing on the tsunami, or are reading one that you'd like to add to the digest, please visit the website and log on with the following info: login: tsunami-info / password: southasia. Once you've logged in, you can add a news source to the digest by pasting it into the "Add a Favorite" form field in the right column. Or, you can follow this shortcut.

* Among the many first-person accounts appearing on blogs: Sanjiva is an IBM employee from Sri Lanka, who is trying to build information systems to aid in locating missing persons, and help with medical resource logistics. Link.

* Jesse Krembs, President of The Hacker Foundation, tells BoingBoing:

Some of the folks here at the hacker foundation are assembling some code to build a big PHP/MYSQL database for locating survivors and doing tracing. It's not up yet but it will be soon. SurvivorLocationAssis tance.org & suvivors.hackerfoundation. org will be the address. You can see a preview as we build it here. It's still very rough but functional even at very low bandwidth."

Link to related BoingBoing posts.

Smartpaper Networks Licenses Touchsmart
Publishing to Distribute Next-Generation
Textbooks Using a Unique "Touch User
Interface"

Smartpaper Networks Licenses Touchsmart
Publishing to Distribute Next-Generation
Textbooks Using a Unique "Touch User
Interface" 07/09/2004 03:22 AM
Smartpaper™ Networks Corporation and Touchsmart Publishing LLC have completed an agreement that gives Touchsmart the exclusive right to distribute mathematics, science, and special education products based on Smartpaper intellectual property. [PRWEB Jul 9, 2004]

Boing Boing: Tsunami update: Microsoft
responds, bl0ggers organize, video
torrents

Boing Boing: Tsunami update: Microsoft
responds, bl0ggers organize, video
torrents 01/02/2005 12:46 AM
BoingBoing for their link as well

boingboing.net/2004/12/30/tsunami_update_micro.html
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