Multimedia

The Open University is a UK school of higher learning that has no formal entry requirements for admission. The idea is to make learning available to everyone of any age and walk of life, no matter where they live. You don’t have to wait to graduate high school to enroll at OU, and there is … Read the full post →“The History of English in Ten Minutes”

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com announced yesterday that they are teaming up to build the world’s largest online database of information on victims of the Holocaust. The Museum has an enormous collection of 170 million documents and records containing information on at least 17 million people who were targeted for extermination by … Read the full post →“Help digitize Holocaust Memorial Museum records”

Google Street View continues to add new sites to their already impressive list of historical locations you can explore online. Now that they use tricycles as well as cars to travel the world photographing what they see, they can follow paths that cars cannot, like for instance the inside of the Colosseum. As of yesterday, … Read the full post →“Google trikes go inside ancient sites”

Famed author and undercover sex spy Roald Dahl also wrote screenplays for American television in the late ’50s and ’60s. He’s best known for his work on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, including having penned the scripts for the Emmy-nominated “Lamb to the Slaughter” (1958) episode starring Barbara Bel Geddes, and “Man from the South” (1960) starring … Read the full post →“Roald Dahl made a great Rod Serling”

Rare color footage of John and Jackie Kennedy taken at the Rice Hotel in Houston just before 9:00 PM on Nov. 21, 1963, has been restored and posted online by the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. The film was made by Roy Botello who was in town for a convention of the League of … Read the full post →“Rare color film of JFK’s last night alive posted”

Now is the perfect time to get next year’s Christmas present for the Internet/music nerd in your life. In fact, now is the only time to get what will soon become a treasured rarity. Internet Archaeology, the website dedicated to preserving graphics of the early Internet era, is branching out into preserving the sounds of … Read the full post →“Internet history on your gramophone”

Set your DVRs and forget about The Simpsons even though it’s a Treehouse of Horror episode because tonight at 8:00 PM EST Turner Classic Movies will be airing the newly restored 2010 version of Metropolis! This is the one that was re-edited according to Fritz Lang’s original cut and including the lost footage found in … Read the full post →“The Complete “Metropolis” on TCM tonight!”