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Educational: Learn Something New

Just because I’m out of school doesn’t mean I’m done with my education.

I figure that if I learn something new every day, I’ll have garnered enough knowledge to be able to take over the world by the time I’m thirty. (Either that, or my head will explode, making a terrible mess on my computer monitor.) Want to make a grab for planetary domination before I do? You’d better start studying, then!

Jump To:

• Literature & Writing (6)
• Music (4)
• Art (2)
• History (1)
• Science (2)
• Language (2)
• Internet/WWW (3)
• Parapsychology & Cryptozoology (3)

Literature & Writing

• Common Errors in English Erroneous spellings/phrases and their corrections.
• Dictionary.com Quickly look up definitions. There’s also a thesaurus.
• McGonagall Online The world’s worst poet has a fan site!
• The Phrase Finder Learn the origins of common phrases and proverbs.
• Project Gutenberg Bazillions of copyright-expired e-books, all free for the reading. Yummy.
• Rhyming Dictionary For all your dirty-limerick-writing needs.

Music

• Adtunes A blog and forum devoted to identifying and discussing music used in TV commercials and movie trailers; very useful for iTunes nuts who need a title/artist to go with that funky song they want to download.

MP3s (Free and Legal)

• Epitonic Free and legal MP3 downloads from indie and rock artists.

Lyrics

• LetsSingIt A vast lyrics database with good search capabilities. (Hint: It goes best with the iTunes Lyrics Importer.)
• LyricWiki An archive of user-submitted lyrics, with the benefit of being ad-free.

Artists

• The Peter Schickele/P.D.Q. Bach Web Site A little seriousness, a lot of fun.

Art

• Carol Gerten’s Fine Art Site Thousands of art images, painstakingly scanned and organized—this is a true labor of love.
• FromOldBooks.org A one-man operation: buying up old books, scanning the pictures, and putting them online for public consumption. I use several of Liam's pictures as clipart around this site.

History

• TudorHistory.org One of the best Tudor sites on the Web (with the best Tudor podcast, too!).

Polar Exploration

• Frederick A. Cook: From Hero to Humbug A comprehensive site on Cook’s life and (possible) achievements.

Science

• Gray’s Anatomy The 1918 anatomy book online, complete with illustrations.
• The Phobia List A collection of phobia names so huge, it’s downright frightening.

Language

• The English-to-American Dictionary The BBC got you befuddled? Learn the lingo, you bounder!
• Parliamo Scots? A thorough glossary of every Scottish word and phrase imaginable.

Internet / World Wide Web

• A List Apart An e-zine for web designers and developers. It’s taught me a hell of a lot.
• CSS Zen Garden Refreshing and soothing designs to inspire your inner web designer.
• The Site Wizard Excellent, easy-to-comprehend tutorials and articles to help you improve your site.

Parapsychology & Cryptozoology

• Encyclopedia Mythica All the monsters and myths of the past, available at the click of a mouse.
• Survival After Death A pro-“survival” site with some excellent bios and photos—you don't have to “believe” to appreciate the resource.
• Cryptomundo My favorite cryptozoology resource/blog.

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