Pocket cinema: The story on Linux and GNU project – selected documentaries

March 18, 2011

It’s time to introduce the biggest and the most significant star on theĀ  free software sky, the open source operating system GNU / Linux.

All documentaries include historical development of Linux and Free Software Foundation, with stories from the perspectives of the initiators and programmers Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds.

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Illustration above: The GNU logo by Etienne Suvasa
Illustration bellow: Tux, the penguin, mascot of Linux

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Readoholic: Steve Lieber’s comic book Underground

November 6, 2010

While I’m preparing myself for few interviews to be made in the afternoon at the Funny Comics Show, here is one recommended free comic by respectful comic book artist Steve Lieber in collaboration with Jeff Parker entitled Underground

I’ve stumbled on his comic while reading articles at Shareable portal, more precisely Malcolm Harris’s post ‘Pirates as Promoters: The Story of A Theft Gone Right‘ caught my eye…

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Readoholic: In Praise of Copying by Marcus Boon

November 3, 2010

Thanks to Pixel Pain I caught up earlier today great information about the new book titled In Praise of Copying by Marcus Boon, published by Harvard University Press… It’s fresh, new, free and you can practically sense the smell of ink and paper while you’re reading this post, right?

It has been awhile since I published a blog post in Readoholic, I know… But I’m terrible glad that with this post I’m not just cleaning the dust from my digital shelves…

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Pocket cinema: We are the Strange

July 5, 2009

Today, we will watch together animated feature film ‘We are the Strange‘ which I saw at Animafest almost a month or two ago, created by cult artist among computer geeks – M dot Strange.

M dot Strange fairly gave to the internet community HD version of his latest film… This film won a bunch of awards at international film festivals over the last two years… not to mention M dot Strange’s animation originality… this film suits perfectly ‘computer games and gadgets’ geeks, definitely… so, if you already missed it, sit and watch…

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