Free MIT Course Onlines

So did you always want to graduate from MIT, but you couldn’t afford it? Well they aren’t handing out honorary degrees, but MIT is putting all their class material online for free. I was reading U.S. News and World Report the other day and stumbled across an article on things you should do in 2008. One of them was getting a complimentary Ivy League education by watching video lectures, downloading class notes and assignments from MIT.

MIT Open Course Ware

Everything2

Everything2 claims that it’s “a collection of user-submitted writings about, well, pretty much everything.” Writers are continually submitting their rants on everything from Walter Matthau, Star Trek, Roman mythology, hockey penalties, Henry VIII, or the Bible to just name a few.

Do a search for your favorite topic and you are bound to discover something new!

http://everything2.com/

Everything2

Everything2 claims that it’s “a collection of user-submitted writings about, well, pretty much everything.” Writers are continually submitting their rants on everything from Walter Matthau, Star Trek, Roman mythology, hockey penalties, Henry VIII, or the Bible to just name a few.

Do a search for your favorite topic and you are bound to discover something new!

http://everything2.com/

Dummies

I am a big fan of the Dummies books because they breakdown information into bite-size chunks I can understand. I just stumbled upon the dummies website and found they offer many free articles on a host of topics that could be quite useful.

Dummies.com offers free articles on: Everyday Computing,
The Internet, At Home, Health, Mind and Spirit, Making and Managing Money, Travel, and Sports and Leisure.

Here are some sample articles:
Brushing up on Bluetooth
Ward Off Computer Viruses with Scheduled Scans

Does anyone have a favorite Dummies’ book of all-time?

Zango.com

If you are looking for a new way to waste some time while your surfing the web, then discover Zango. The website features free screensavers, video games and funny video clips. You can get free games like Chess, Foosball and Solitaire to name a few.

http://www.zango.com

Are you smarter than a fifth grader?

Fox recently launched a new game show hosted by Jeff Foxworthy called “Are you smarter than a fifth grader?” to see how smart Americans are. The show casts an adult battling wits against a panel of fifth graders. The Orlando Sentinel created this quick quiz to get a general idea of your intelligence.

How well will you do?
Take The Quiz

Is technology changing your life?

Sometimes good advice for a business is good advice for life in general.

This webcast features Thomas Mulready of CoolCleveland.com and deals with how podcasting, video casting, blogging and email are transforming your business. Could these things be transforming the rest of your life too?

This was presented by the Northern Ohio Area Chambers of Commerce (NOACC) which is a regional partnership of over 120 community-based chambers of commerce dedicated to helping chambers deliver competitive and cost-saving benefits and services for almost 35,000 member businesses.

http://www.tricitybizexpo.com/Live/01-07.cfm

Cliche Finder

Don’t put all your eggs in on basket! It looks like you are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Cliches are all around us. Sometimes you don’t even know you’re using one, or perhaps you’d like to incorporate a new one into your vocabulary. Get 10 random cliches or search for a specific one. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel, and more fun than a toothache…

http://www.westegg.com/cliche/

Walt Disney E-Learning

I have long wondered what e-learning would look like when Disney got into the picture. That day has come. “Walt Disney has launched an online subscription service aimed at preschool children, completing its plan for what a Disney executive called ‘an online theme park’.”

Playhouse Disney Preschool Time Online costs $49.95 US a year and is the most learning-oriented of Disney’s internet subscription services for kids.

http://playhouse.go.com/

Government Sites Help

When I was a kid, I sent away for a free Government directory that was an incredible list of free services offered by Uncle Sam. I had to write my name neatly on a 5″ x 8″ card, put in the mail and wait 3-5 weeks for my catalog. Today that has all changed with the Internet, now I can just logon to the net and get even more information. Here is a listing of great government sites that I recently found in my local newspaper. The hub of all these sites listed below is the Federal Citizen Information Center website.

Federal Citizen Information Center
Find out information on cars, computers, education, employment, family, federal programs, food, health, housing, money, small business, travel, consumer help, protecting children, recalls, scam and frauds.
pueblo.gsa.gov

Consumer Product Safety Commission
This is where you can find out about product safety and product recalls.
cpsc.gov

Caring For Aging Parents
Federal Trade Commission
Get up-to-date information on how to deter fraud against the elderly and long-term health care.
ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/services/apact/index.html

Protecting Children
Discover how you can control what information your children see.
ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/online/kidsprivacy.htm

Pension and Health Care
Find out tips on how to get the most benefits.
dol.gov/ebsa/publications/protecting_benefits.html

Air Travel
Learn how to travel efficiently.
airconsumer.ost.dot.gov/pubs.htm