Archive for July, 2008

randy pausch died

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

last year i wrote about the carnegie mellon professor randy pausch, who inspired millions of people with his “last lecture”. last friday at the age of 47 he died of complications from pancreatic cancer. once again i want to recommend his speech, as it is one of the best presentations i’ve ever seen.

also i want to recommend the website “building virtual worlds” which hosts content of a class founded by randy pausch dealing with interactive worlds and virtual realities that are built by students. you can watch a video of one of the funniest worlds below.

Medium: www.youtube.com

webtv 2.0

Friday, July 11th, 2008

have you ever wanted to watch tv online for free? now you get a chance at zattoo.com. i’m really impressed by the quality of this service, as it is all for free. you only have to download a small client to be able to watch the local channels you like (right now there are 8 countries with 187 different channels supported). the software has also build in a nice program guide which displays the schedule of all channels in a clear way. so have a try…