Books
Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity by Lawrence Lessig
Creative Commons co-founder, Lawrence Lessig, ‘the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era’ (The New Yorker), masterfully argues that never before in…
The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help by Amanda Palmer
Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked…
I’m A Rocker. I Rock Out by R. Stevens
Diesel Sweeties, the long-running, pioneering webcomic that was into pixel art before pixel art was cool and made fun of hipsters before you knew what…
The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain
This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway…
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Marcus, a.k.a ‘w1n5t0n,’ is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works—and how to work the system. Smart, fast,…
Free Software, Free Society by Richard Stallman
“This book collects the writing of Richard Stallman in a manner that will make its subtlety and power clear. The essays span a wide range,…
Blown To Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, Harry Lewis
“There is no simpler or clearer statement of the radical change that digital technologies will bring, nor any book that better prepares one for thinking…
Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die by Foo
A top ten Amazon Customer Favorite in Science Fiction & Fantasy for 2010, The Machine of Death is an anthology of original stories bound together…
Music
The Beautiful Machine by Josh Woodward
The most recent album from Ann Arbor, Michigan based acoustic indie rock singer/songwriter, Josh Woodward. The album represents a distillation of the best of what…
Guess Who’s A Mess by Brad Sucks
Guess Who’s a Mess is the third full-length Brad Sucks album.It’s about dealing with other people’s expectations.
Ghosts I-IV by Nine Inch Nails
The album is the first independent release from Nine Inch Nails following its split from Interscope Records, and is an almost entirely instrumental album.Ghosts was…
Shaking The Habitual by The Knife
The Knife was formed in Gothenburg Sweden by sister/brother duo Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer. Having released four albums as The Knife (including their…
Movies
Big Buck Bunny
The plot follows a day of the life of Big Buck Bunny when he meets three bullying rodents, Frank (the leader of the rodents), Rinky…
A Lonely Place for Dying
In 1972 an abandoned Mexican prison sits alone in the dusty Chihuahua desert. KGB mole Nikolai Dzerzhinsky waits for his contact from the Washington Post….
Elephant’s Dream
The first film from the Blender Foundation, directed by Bassam Kurdali.The two main characters are on a journey in the folds of a giant Machine,…
Sita Sings The Blues
What do a 3,000-year-old Sanskrit epic, a 20s-era jazz singer and Indonesian shadow puppets have in common?They’re all part of the eclectic cultural tapestry that…
