Yep, after last week’s unexplained* absence they’re back again – the Friday Links:
You(niversity)Tube
The latest educational resource to hit YouTube: The Open University.
TED has some new ways of searching through its extensive catalogue of online talks and lectures. Here are the ones rated most jaw-dropping.
You might want to search streamed web-TV (including 4oD, iPlayer, etc.) for educational content… or probably just the latest episode of America’s Got Talent.
Random news stories
Possibly the most spuriously based semi-news story I’ve ever read. Does that trouser leg even look deliberately rolled-up to you?
In other prison news: possibly the oddest plea bargain ever; and a sheriff sending himself to jail.
It seems even the “aristocracy” are selling their lives on eBay now.
Or for the less well-off, how about part of someone’s unwanted life: annastella007 is selling evidence of her husband’s infidelity.
Music
Last time we linked to alternatives to Pandora.com; this week, Wired shows you how to access the site from anywhere in the world – while it still exists…
Also in Wired, David Byrne playing an entire building – no, not as a concert venue, as an instrument.
A few sources of free and legal MP3s:
Spiral Frog
Jamendo
We7 (UK-based)
And finally…
Weight Watchers = a Role Playing Game for the overweight? But where are the d20s?
*I could explain… but it would be boring.
