crimperman writes “The Open-PC project has announced that its first PC will be available at the end of February for €359. They claim the mini-ITX desktop machine is energy efficient, consumer ready, easy to upgrade, and — significantly — uses only hardware that has free software drivers available. As you’d expect, it comes with GNU/Linux which is running KDE (a €10 donation to the KDE project in included in the price). Interestingly (more…)

The Rev. Michael Sinnott, the 79-year-old Irish missionary priest who was recently released from a month of jungle captivity in the south by suspected Muslim rebels, said his kidnappers had been eager to set him free because they wanted to watch the Manny Pacquiao fight.

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If you’re too broke, too cheap, or just too plain lazy to go out and buy a game, you can still get your game on with these online shooters, all of which are free to play on your PC.

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Since the beginning of steroid testing, however, the middle infield positions have devolved back to where they were pre-Ripken. Now, much of a player’s value in the middle infield is predicated on his defense, and power-hitting middle-infielders are much harder to come by.

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Wow. Can you imagine lugging that stuff over every day?

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itwbennett writes “‘Nintendo is feeling the sting of competition from the iPhone,’ writes Peter Smith in a recent post. ‘At least, that’s the feeling one gets when reading Nintendo president Satoru Iwata’s thoughts on the future of Nintendo handhelds. According to a Financial Times piece, Iwata suggests the next Nintendo handheld (and to be clear, he isn’t talking about the big screen DS launching in Japan next month) might include free 3G wireless, (more…)

Grab a pen and write some of these URLs down, or even better, head to Technologizer through your console, and enjoy some Wii browser games that won’t cost you a dime.

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Earlier this year the Swedish Parliament passed the IPRED law, making it easier for copyright holders to obtain file-sharers’ details from ISPs. In the months that passed, no music and movie sharers were sued. Instead, the first IPRED case dealt with pirated ebooks, but this case has now been thrown out by the Appeal Court.

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What will it take to secure a future free of fossil fuels and transition to efficient and renewable energy that is not just economically viable, but profitable? “Put simply, we intend to reverse the past quarter-millennium’s dominant global way in which people get and use energy,”…

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There are sufficient free games available for the budget gamer, many of which we’ve already reviewed on MakeUseOf, but it’s not the only alternative.

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