Flour Power

I was going to write a whole post about the recent launches of Academic Earth and Youtube Edu, which aggregate thousands of free lectures from over a hundred universities (including MIT, Yale, Harvard and Stanford), but stumbled upon Lifehacker's Top 10 Tools for a Free Online Education, which mentions them along with a few more tools to get free online education:

• Teach yourself programming
• Get a personal MBA
• Learn to actually use Ubuntu
• Get started on a new language
• Trade your skills, find an instructor
• Academic Earth and Google EDU
• Teach yourself all kinds of photography
• Get an unofficial liberal arts major
• Learn an instrument
• Learn from actual college courses online

It turns out the internet is not only for tweets, quizzes, porn and lolcats, and there's actually a lot of useful stuff around. I had no idea...