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By Joel Hammond JHammond@pigskinpodcast.com Lost amid Monday's revelation of Phillip Fulmer's departure from the University of Tennessee -- not soon enough, eh Vols fans? -- the University of Toledo and football coach Tom Amstutz announced Monday that Amstutz, who's led the Rockets to four bowl

For those who are following the Chapter of the Week, I’m so sorry because I decided to combine Chapters 6 & 7 since they’re both short Chapters. Here it is, please bear with my shortcomings, through these verses I am sure that we can project for a brighter days to come for all of us.

NORTD Releases Open Source Touchscreen Computer, Touchkit Author: Mark Alvarez 29 Aug Microsoft and Apple have been getting all the attention when it comes to touchscreen computing, but it will be a long time until the average user has the future as promised by Minority Report in their own home.

For Do-It-Yourselfers, making your onw multi-touch input device has never been easier with the DIY Multi-Touch Kit. TouchKit is a modular multitouch development kit with the aim to make multitouch readily available in an open source fashion.

The Disclaimer comes first The following post is a ton of stuff I have collected over the last year or two on BitTorrent and its implications for educational institutions. This will all be fodder for an article in the EDUCAUSE Quarterly I have been promising for months, and I found the only way to get it out was to blog it ’cause I’m a sick addict.

BitTorrent may be decentralized, but a large part of the BitTorrent community still relies on centralized websites and trackers. These trackers and torrent sites are considered to be the Achilles heel of the BitTorrent hydra.

In the final part of The Red Zone Report’s 2008 Mid-American Conference preview, I take a look at some of the key games that lie ahead in 2008, who some of the impact newcomers could be, and I also give my preseason all-conference picks. (more…)

The popular BitTorrent web site Mininova was sued by the Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN this week in a bid to get Mininova to filter unlicensed content. The organization has had some success in the past against Edonkey and BitTorrent web sites, so there is at least a possibility that Mininova will be forced to either take down most of its torrent files or shut down completely.

Don’t want to wait for Microsoft Surface to make it to a location near you, or impatient with the pace of Surface becoming a consumer product. Why not do it yourself? Eyebeam is taking multi-touch tables open source with Cubit, and have put their info online for those who want to roll their own.

Filed under: Displays DIY multitouch surfaces may be relatively new to the do-it-yourself library, but we have a feeling they won't be fading anytime soon. Engineering and design firm Eyebeam has spent the weekend demonstrating a kit (Cubit) that enables folks to build their own multitouch tables,