LoudIt.org offers free MP3 audio books of classic works that you can download or read long with onscreen. (via MetaFilter)
I was recently forwarded an e-mail that mentioned how MIT is offering a variety of free University courses that cover almost their entire curriculum. This e-mail reminded me
A fellow FIMS student pointed me to a new human-assisted search engine called Cha-Cha. It allows you to do regular searches but if you're stymied, you can also
“With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks a few myths about the “developing” world. Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden’s world-renowned Karolinska
I'm writing an article on Facebook for Feliciter and have spent quite a bit of time on the site recently (er, even more than usual 😉) so I
MetaFilter is having one of its periodic debates about Web 2.0. As I mentioned the last time I talked about this, young, web-savvy types are supposed to be
Scribd is a new site attempting to be the “YouTube of documents.” It currently accepts .doc, .ppt, .txt, .pdf, .xls, .ps, .lit, .cia and .nhl file formats (just
Does anybody know a place to store a 30MB file for easy sharing online? I'd store it on my site – I have the space but know the
This is very possibly how you will interact with your computer in the near future. Wow.(Quinn, who has a great post today on why he blogs, found it
The son of conservative icon, Phyllis Schlafly, Andrew Schlafly has set-up a conservative alternative to the “liberal-biased” Wikipedia called “Conservapedia“. (via MetaFilter which includes some of the funnier
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