Online Free Touch-typing Tutor

Typing is becoming a part of a person’s literacy indicator today. If you cannot touch-type, all of your computer-based tasks will be more difficult not to mention slower.

www.sense-lang.org is a very good free on-line typing tutor. It has a decent set of standalone typing tutorials. It also has a classroom learning mode [...]

What Every Leader Needs

What every leader needs but often underestimates. Watch the TED talk and see for yourself.

via TEDTalks : Derek Sivers: How to start a movement – Derek Sivers [...]

Levels of Thinking

Learn about Blooms Taxonomy. Blooms Taxonomy is a breakdown of the six levels of thinking, from the lowest level to the highest. Can you challenge yourself to think about everything in your life at the deepest level?

Knowledge: Knowing a fact. Knowing 2 + 2 = 4, doesnt mean you know what 2 [...]

On Collaboration and a Bit of Philosophy

Please read the Wikipidea article then watch the video.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner’s_dilemma

How to Teach your Kids to Program

An excellent article on how to get kids interested in programming. it gathers a great collection of programing languages tools and sites specifically geared to the younger minds.http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Teach_a_Kid_to_Program

7 Important Fitness Tips For Web Workers

“Web working and fitness usually don’t go hand in hand. In fact, fitness is probably the last thing on a web worker’s mind.

In front of a computer all day and constantly working on new projects, a web worker doesn’t have the time to keep fit. As a result, their weight increases,mental [...]

Beating the Recession: 6 Amazing Mind Power Steps to your Success

Interesting article on how to stay positive!

23andme a Social Genome Service for the masses

The service is simple. They send you a kit. You provide a saliva sample and send it back for analysis. But the result is an amazing insight into yourself, your health, and your ancestry. Details from their web site are below: for more info visit: http://www.23andme.com A high-density, custom genome scan.

Stanford Offers free online courses

Stanford has followed MIT (previously posted here just search) and is now offering a wide variety of engineering courses that include computer science, and artificial intelligence. See below  for their original announcement: Welcome to Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) For the first time in its history, Stanford is offering some of its most [...]

4.1.5 Rob Gruhl – How to Buy a New Car – Ignite Seattle 2007

How to buy a car and still stay smart.