Yes, you CAN make a fire from a can of coke and a chocolate bar. It is actually quite easy, and you don’t need any tools.
http://www.trackertrail.com/survival/fire/cokeandchocolatebar

USC School of Cinema-Television, Interactive Media Division - Professor : Michael Lew

Course concept :
What happens when you merge the vision machine (camera) with the Turing machine (computer) ?
As footage is freeing itself from the linearity of the celluloid or tape substrate and as the medium for displaying moving images starts to have computational power, the film form is changing. New ways of presenting stories with recorded media are becoming possible.
In this class we will explore what these possibilities are, study examples of interactive narrative films, think about the relationship between story and game and examine the specificities offered by each of these new media (set-top box, interactive TV, DVD-ROM for game console or home PC, handheld devices).
The time flow is no longer imposed. The viewer can explore the convolutions of a pre-established story at her own pace. Film comes with code that defines how to read it.
In computational film, the editor no longer needs to sequence shots on a one-dimensional timeline ; the editor rather becomes an interaction designer that will place shots in a multi-dimensional narrative space. Each time, this space will be traversed to generate a new experience of the same film.
http://interactive.usc.edu/lew/CTIN499

(aka How To Get Podcasts And Also Make Your Own)
Engadget.com’s article on how to get “Podcasts” on your iPod. So what’s a Podcast? To put it simply, a Podcast is an audio file, a MP3, most likely, in talk show format, along with a way to subscribe to the show and have it automatically delivered to your iPod when you plug in to iTunes. The show isn’t live, so you can listen to it whenever you want.
http://www.engadget.com/entry/5843952395227141

Well, interesting images from Google’s new Satellite Maps.
http://perljam.net/notes/interesting-google-satellite-maps

A little different from the iPod campaigns of late.
http://www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=12219&type=coolad&startrow=81

A showroom of animation, commercials, music videos and short films with some great spots and…
http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/

…a pool of commercial directors with a few gem ads.
http://www.mjz.com

One-stop resource for all iPod Games. All games are completely free of charge and available to download.
http://ipodarcade.com

Allows people to create their very own iPod text games. No HTML or coding. “iStories” are text games for the iPod that have a block of text like a book and then when certain things happen in the story, the user is able to make choices that affect how the story ultimately progresses.
http://www.ipodsoft.com/index.php?/software/istory

Educational site about famous trials maintained by Doug Linder, Professor of Law.
Covers a very wide range of examples, from the trial of Socrates to the one Galileo, to Amistad trials, to Charles Manson’s, to O. J. Simpson’s. “There’s more” resources links at the bottom of the page.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm