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- Shawnosaurus, on 11/06/2007, -1/+69Bookmarked for eventual procrastination.
- cyroxos, on 11/05/2007, -1/+33I agree
I think this sort of open-source information is fantastic. I am a collector of ebooks, audiobooks, and documentaries, and I must say that information ought to be free. - CanceledCzech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Finally, someone being happy about a dupe.
- russellnation, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23coolest site ever, thanks guy.
- xofc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21It's functionally minimalist. Sometimes web 1.0 works just fine.
- brandonr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21No kidding. Thanks for resubmitting it.
- xXShadowstormXx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Yeah, great site.
http://www.digg.com/ - Tricky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15We don't ban him because he adds useful URLs. We ban him because he whores his own site out.
- kcpwnsgman, on 11/05/2007, -1/+13Now I can test out of all my college classes!
- rootadmen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12if you actually go to his site, he is a ***** moron
- JoWiGo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Prepare for the digg down bombardment
- greenspans, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8> If I had a nickel for every "greatest collection of free tech information" site I have in my firefox
> bookmarks, I might have enough to buy a PS3.
If you had read any of your greatest tech information bookmarks you'd have bought a wii with your nickels. - monomal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8It's "muy bueno" or "muy bien" - but I guess you haven't listened that far in yet! Goodness knows I'm struggling, and I recently moved to Spain...
- greenspans, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I would estimate around 35% of the people that click this don't know what autodidact means. Accidentally confusing people about the page content isn't worth being grammatically efficient. "Self learner" is straight forward and a label people can associate quickly as something positive to become; useful for a good headline.
- Heembo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Just block this scumbag spammer.
- RogueAI, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Shouldn't "self learners" know that the term autodidact is a better way to describe themselves?
"self learners" sounds like you're learning about yourself. - skrproj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Thnaks for the very useful info
- masterc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The language stuff is free
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6and its JohnS Hopkins, not John Hopkins!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Stanley Feinbaum,
Professional Tool - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4If I had a nickel for every "greatest collection of free tech information" site I have in my firefox bookmarks, I might have enough to buy a PS3.
- gfixler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Here here. It really raises my spirits to see so many people digging up an entry related to learning more. This has more diggs than that story about Hef's sexy time, and that one had a head start.
Thanks, diggers. - piko_soft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There should be no price placed on education! GREAT FIND!
- gfixler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@cyroxos: Just in case you, or others don't know about the newsgroup, check out alt.binaries.e-book.technical through your favorite reader (I'm on Pan on Linux, but was on Xnews when I was on Windows).
There's a fairly large and revolving list of all manner of technical bits of info in a spread of formats - sometimes image scans of books, sometimes PDFs, sometimes textual ebooks. I've seen everything from science, math, and medical books, to electronics, computer, and programming language texts (and about 1.3 billion posts of web language material). I've also seen a lot of military things, like what must have been a full thousand user's manuals of every gun I've ever/never heard of, blueprints of helicopters, boats, and planes, and once even a giant collection of military vehicle papercraft.
My favorite so far were 2 large compendiums of clever woodworking scanned in from old magazines - something like 80 volumes, and about 6-10 cool projects in each. It was a group effort of people finding the old books, and scanning them in to complete the list. Cool stuff. Check it out. - TheAbsintheHare, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Oh man. You just filled up all my free time for the next few months.
This is a kinesthetic/visual learner's dream.
Thank you :] - Tricky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The OpenCourseWare from MIT is great. Completely in-depth.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You should generally look at Open Culture --- www.oculture.com -- for lots of similar resources, including lots of educational podcasts.
- goatomatic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@cyroxos
You might want to check out librivox.org, they have free audio books and anyone can volunteer to contribute. - pensivewombat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is excellent, I just wish there were more resources for English majors like myself. Most web based free education tends to be about science and technology (for fairly obvious reasons) but I'd love to see and online video lecture on Derrida and post-structuralism or pop culture studies.
- hiPpymIck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2its in there under 'useful free software for students'
ra=real alternative..plays realmedia files
also
they didnt have this free audio bks..read by voluntrs..been on Digg
http://www.oculture.com/weblog/2006/10/audio_book_podc.html - adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2realmedia files....bleh...
anyone know how I can convert these to something more user friendly? - sebrOck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Juice - Popular iTunes Replacement
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/download/index.php
and i an just quoting from the site this post is about.
why didn´t you just read it? - 13thfloor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If it is audio only, then maybe we can't judge too harshly for spelling errors. Never stop learning.
- 13thfloor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1sadly, no iTunes for Linux, so even if it is free, it doesn't help me, unless it is available as a podcast from feedburner or similar.
- tansoei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1really really useful!!! Thanks! Only the free software coverage is inadequate
- 13thfloor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Putting your website in your comment, especially a comment that does not have anything to do with the article is spam, plain and simple. Just put it in your profile and make a worthwhile comment. Someone may actually look at your profile if you contribute to the article in any way. That would be part of the social aspect of digg.com. And now I'm blocking you.
- sapphicbeats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1oh man...my free time is now GONE. thank you SO much for these links. and thanks to whomever suggested http://librivox.org/ as well!
- inactive, on 09/06/2008, -0/+1The best mortgage rates, refinance, home loan, real estate, realty
http://tophomemortgageloan.com/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks submitter. Hugely useful site and, thankfully, free of ads, spams etc. Definitely was worth resubmitting. Shame one of the online documentaries is removed on Google - doesn't take anything away from this site.
- tansoei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1very useful. The free software list is a little meager. Seminar material from vendors like Oracle, SAP, Microsoft are often available for download. Many other university courses are open to public, just search using topic course+material download
- audiothink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great compilation. The 'French Urban Gymnastics' video seemed out of place until I considered the title 'self learning' from a wider scope. I did not see Wikipedia in the list, but can understand why it might have been left out in light of other, less-known Wikimedia projects.
- blankartist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why? Why are all the videos encoded in Real Media? Boo.
- mojaam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nice, been worried about how I am going to pass my chemistry class this upcoming semester... now I can get a head start.
- Sculptor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thank you Greenspans. Most subjects do not match my current interest. But sometimes its just great to learn something totally unrelated to what we have been fixated on of late.
- LeDave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm not able to download the podcasts (the ones that I tried at least). Does anyone know if they're restricted to the American itunes store?
edit: I'm canadian, btw - smoreorless, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1http://www.nidirect.co.uk
- MaNiaC510, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1thanks for the find
- 177emc2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1learn
- littlebylittle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sweet
- davetheman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1free knowledge is made possible thanks to digg.
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