I think this is a first (or a mistake): the entire issue of the latest New Yorker is available online for free. Usually they leave 5-7 articles offline so's to get your cheap ass to the newsstand.
You can read scans of all sorts of magazines for free at Mygazines. The scans are uploaded by other users of the site. Magazine publishers are understandably upset. I liked this bit from the press release announcing the site:
The mygazines concept is simple, essentially it allows its members to share magazines in the same manner a doctors' office, law firm, libraries, and hair salons would with their clients every day.
(via waxy)
US college students won't download music provided by their schools even though its free because they can't take it with them after graduation, won't work with Apples, and can't play on iPods. That's not really actually "free" then, is it?
Free 1200-page physics textbook, available online or for download. I have no idea if it's any good or not. Is anyone using this in their high school or college classroom?
Free movies in NYC's Bryant Park all summer; here's the schedule. Ooh, Touch of Evil.
