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- Check delicious
popular tags like ‘useful,’
‘tutorials,’ ‘tips,’ ‘howto,’ ‘advice,’ ‘entrepreneurship,’
etc. for interesting, educational articles to read.
- Watch one of the
thousands of educational videos streaming at TED.com, Academic Earth and Teacher Tube.
- Read an online book
list and find a new book to grab next time I’m at the
library. Here’s another
list. And
another. And another.
- Read a classic book
online for free at Project
Gutenberg, Planet
eBook, or the E-books
Directory.
- Research a new Do
It Yourself project at DIY
Network, Instructables, eHow, or WikiHow.
- Add to, delete
from, or just generally sort my ongoing to-do list at Remember The Milk.
- Create a cool
graphical mind map of some of my recent ideas at bubbl.us.
- Email a close
friend or family member I haven’t spoken to in awhile.
- Backup my recent
photos, documents, and other important files online using
Microsoft’s free 25 gig SkyDrive.
- Use Wikipedia’s random article
function to pick a random article to read.
- Touch up on my
math and science skills over a the Khan Academy, MIT OpenCourseWare, or
LearningScience.org.
- Send a paper
greeting card directly to a friend or relative at enGreet.
- Start learning a
new language online for free at BBC Languages or Livemocha.
- Watch one of the
insightful 6 minute and 40 second presentations at Ignite Show.
- Use Memorize Now to
memorize a cool joke, or poem, or whatever.
- Use Media Convert to
convert video files I have on my computer into a format I can view
on my iPhone or iPod later on.
- Listen to an educational podcast over at Odeo or via iTunes on
iTunes
U.
- Read one of the academic journals at the Directory of Open Access Journals.
- Share my favorite mp3s, photos, videos, etc. with friends and
family using drop.io.
- Get a free college education online using
this guide from Lifehacker
(or read one of the other useful articles on Lifehacker).
- Inspire and spark my creative mind by looking at a rolling
slideshow
of the highest rated photos on Flickr for the last 7 days.
- Catch up on a short history lesson at HyperHistory
or The Internet History
Sourcebooks Project. Or find out what happened today
in history.
- Take a fun, educational online quiz at Quizlet.
- Play an educational online game at Lumosity, Sporcle, Games for the Brain, or
Math Run.
- Add a little gentle rain to my environment using RainyMood.com and then simply
meditate and relax in my computer chair for 10 minutes.
- Sell old stuff I no longer need on eBay and make a little extra cash.
- Find a new musical artist to listen to based on music I like at
Grooveshark,
Pandora, last.fm, or Deezer.
- Find out what’s happening in our world from quality
international news sources like BBC News and Reuters.
- Write a blog post
like
this one.
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