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With 1888 videos and counting, VideoLectures.net seems to be an ideal collection of online video lectures. You must be warned that an amount of videos might be in foreign languages, and you will probably have to register to take advantage of certain features. Nevertheless you will hopefully find some lectures on subjects you are interested [...]

In December I wrote Study Effectively with Noise and Stu.dicio.us. However compared to actual studying for a quiz, test or exam it might not help you all that much. Quizlet on the other hand seems like a good cramming solution, finding its niche in the good tradition of “virtual” flash cards. Quizlets mission is to [...]

How do you actually keep your New Year’s Resolutions? Well, Alexander Kharlamov has a couple of good ideas: How to make and keep New Year’s Resolutions. A short summary of the main points: Identify the right goals, Add actions to goals, and Remind yourself regularly of your resolutions. Adding actions and reminding yourself of your [...]

Bruce Schneier at Wired analyzed 34,000 user names and passwords “spoils from a MySpace phishing attack” (This attack?). Schneier concludes that MySpace passwords aren’t so dumb. Less than four percent of the passwords were dictionary words, and the majority were alphanumeric. More interestingly, when Wired compared the password difficulty of MySpace passwords, to those of [...]

Do you remember the days, making a column of hundreds of values in your spreadsheet app, that could emulate an x-value. Maybe I just was cheap or didn’t have internet access. Of course it was all right if you had your nifty TI-85 calculator handy, but if you didn’t, or say you needed that graph [...]

According to one study, the typical person who participates in online communities, i.e. Nancy19, is your future leader. Characterisitics of people who participate in online communities are: *Fast followers *More flexible *Open communicators *Aspire to greatness *Looking for new, innovative ideas They sum those characters up: In short – your future leaders. (According to Attention [...]