But until you do, I'll [happily] keep posting about the cool things you share with me.
MIT OpenCourseWare
This is pretty damn slick. For all of you 'self-learners' out there, MIT (yes, that MIT) is publishing its coursework online for anyone to access, with out registration, payment or anything like that. Just go to the site and click through to the subject and specific course you might be interested in... Once there you'll be able to download .pdfs of the syllabus, many of the readings, assignments, etc. You can also 'Download this Course', and browse through all of the available material from your computer (faster, although still through a web browser). I tried this for both Logic 101 and Introduction to Astronomy. Because the astronomy course required an additional, physical textbook there wasn't as much information to gain immediately (although looking at the completed tests was a good review for me), whereas for the logic course most, if not all of the readings were available in .pdfs and I could feasibly go through the class, assignment by assignment, test by test, gaining everything but the college credit from the course. Wow.
The amount of credible information is stunning. Many of the courses provide external sources for info, and all of the .pdfs that I saw were chock full of bibliographic information. With resources like this people will be able to better trust the information they find on the web.
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