Resources
A list of places to go when you need something interesting (and for free!)
General
a.aaaarg.org - astounding, expanding and useful collection of academic books and articles
openculture.com - free educational and cultural media
ted.com - outstanding series of video talks by interesting people
omegle.com - talk to strangers, a great resource of anonymous strangers
Suicide machine - delete your accounts
Intelligence Squared - top for live debates, lectures and loads other interesting things
Darkmatter - post-colonialism journal online
Literary
wemakezines - ronsil
Musical
longplayer.org - piece of music designed to play for 1000 years without repeating
daytrotter.com - great rough sessions, mostly US indie; legal to download
Alan W. Pollack’s notes - a musicological analysis of every Beatles song
theplaylist - movie soundtracks directory
intergalacticfm.com - music for the galaxy
Visual
demotix.com - citizen photojournalism from around the world
Strange Maps - beautiful and beguiling cartography
ffffound.com - image bookmarking
Wordle - lovely (and useful) word clouds
Wolfram Alpha - ‘the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone’
The Documentary Group - doc soc.
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