Industrial Head (NIN / KMFDM / Nitzer Ebb / Ministry / Front 242 +) by LeeDM101 | Free Listening on SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/leedm101/industrial-head-nin-kmfdm
Sources used: Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole (vocal and chant samples) Nine Inch Nails - Sanctified (drum stem) KMFDM - Animal Out (loops) Nitzer Ebb - Captivate (drums) Nitzer Ebb - Lightning Man (bass loop) Ministry - Thieves (12" remix) Ministry - Bad Blood (sample) Front 242 - Paradise (sample) Front 242 - Manhunter Rammstein - Rammstein (sample)
Don't Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog)
http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user
These projects are all very different, but the dynamic is the same. Someone builds a cool, free product, it gets popular, and that popularity attracts a buyer. The new owner shuts the product down and the founders issue a glowing press release about how excited they are about synergies going forward. They are never heard from again.
Whether or not this is done in good faith, in practice this kind of 'exit event' is a pump-and-dump scheme. The very popularity that attracts a buyer also makes the project financially unsustainable. The owners cash out, the acquirer gets some good engineers, and the users get screwed.
List of freely available programming books - Stack Overflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books
"I'm trying to amass a list of programming books with opensource licenses, like Creative Commons, GPL, etc. The books can be about a particular programming language or about computers in general. Hoping you guys could help"
[Dave Peck's Go]
http://go.davepeck.org
"Play Go online with your friends. It’s fun, easy to get started, and free!
This site was built by Dave Peck and other members of the Go community."
AlphaBounce - Explore infinity and beyond
http://www.alphabounce.com
Interesting Arkanoid / Breakout clone with RPG elements and free to play with for-pay extra turns and items.
Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 1 (of 81)
http://www.tor.com/index.php?id=35734&option=com_content&view=blog
Radiohead Blasted By Veteran Rockers KISS For Giving Their Music Away For Free - Entertainment
http://www.aol.com.au/celebrity/story/radiohead-blasted-by-veteran-rockers-kiss-for-giving-their-music-away-for-free/604011/index.html
Uhh... Yay? "Bassist Gene Simmons says the British rockers – who gave fans the choice to download last year's album 'In Rainbows' for free or pay a sum of their choosing - says their decision is contributing to the demise of the record industry and ins
NewsGator’s RSS clients are now free! - Greg Reinacker’s Weblog - Musings on just about everything.
http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2008/01/09/newsgators-rss-clients-are-now-free
"we’ve got new releases of our most popular applications: FeedDemon 2.6, NetNewsWire 3.1, Inbox 3.0 (beta), and NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile 2.0"
History of the Button ? Blog Archive ? Push for free cheese
http://www.historyofthebutton.com/2006/12/06/push-for-free-cheese
"One of the simplest and most satisfying buttons ever."
a random gnome's random lair: Our freshly hand-picked free games selection
http://gnomeslair.blogspot.com/2006/02/our-freshly-hand-picked-free-games.html
"All of the games presented here(and obviously linked to), were carefully and lovingly hand picked."