Counting down

Counting down from 100 with movies, very cool

JFK Video The Dallas Tapes

photo_servlet.jpg Old film footage from the Collection at the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza — that can’t be found anywhere else on the Web.

Free Open Yale Courses

From the Wired Campus: Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to seven introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.

Open Yale Courses reflects the values of a liberal arts education. Yale’s philosophy of teaching and learning begins with the aim of training a broadly based, highly disciplined intellect without specifying in advance how that intellect will be used.

This approach goes beyond the acquisition of facts and concepts to cultivate skills and habits of rigorous, independent thought: the ability to analyze, to ask the next question, and to begin the search for an answer.

We hope these courses will be a resource for critical thinking, creative imagination, and intellectual exploration. http://open.yale.edu/courses/

Unusual Deaths

Interesting thing on Wikipedia, the

List of unusual deaths

his is a list of unusual deaths – unique or extremely rare circumstances – recorded throughout history. The list also includes less rare, but still unusual, deaths of prominent people. Fame is a fickled thing.