"This book is both practical and philosophical. Some parts are aphoristic and general, others will examine specific case studies in Unix development. We will precede or follow general principles and aphorisms with examples that illustrate them: examples drawn not from toy demonstration programs but rather from real working code that is in use every day."

"The BBC's fledgling RAD department - or rapid application development project - has revealed another of its very early stage, prototype working models, this time exploring how to construct a video show designed, from the outset, to be published, pulled apart and shared on the web.

The longer, 30-minute version provides more material for those who want to cut and re-use footage for their own video, but crucially every element of the show's assets in one bundle - at least 27 different elements including the full-length interviews in different video file formats including Quicktime, Flash and Ogg, audio, logos and also metadata files."

"Al Jazeera Network today announced the world's first repository of broadcast quality video footage released under the ‘Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution’ license. Select Al Jazeera video footage – at this time footage of the War on Gaza - will be available for free to be downloaded, shared, remixed, subtitled and eventually by users and TV stations across the world with acknowledgement to Al Jazeera."

"The Complete Resource for the Do-It-Yourself Musician"

"Google Chrome is Google's browser project; this comic book by Google, drawn by Scott McCloud, is scanned here and shown under its Creative Commons license."

"What I'd like is a personal CMS that is a) open source, b) has it's own blogging system, both publication and aggregation, and c) can used as a platform for one's online/digital identity"

Granted, sites like The Pirate Bay are still the major source for Bittorrent traffic. But legitimate platforms offer enough video goodies to clog your tubes for days. Here are 10 great places to get started

"The picture of 16-year-old Chang flashing a peace sign was taken in April by Alison's youth counsellor, who posted it that day on his Flickr page, according to Alison's brother, Damon. In the ad, Virgin Mobile printed one of its campaign slogans, "Dump y

Nifty Creative Commons licensed Flash video player.

Breakcore netlabel with some sweet releases.

Electronic music netlabel. "Thinner's sound varies between Ambient and Minimal House, mostly wrapped within dubby elements."

Free musics.

E-books, audio books, mp3 music and other media licensed under the Creative Commons license or available in the public domain.

For the first time in its history BBC News is opening its archives to the UK public for a trial period. You can download nearly 80 news reports covering iconic events of the past 50 years including the fall of the Berlin Wall, crowds ejecting soldiers fro