Online Tools

Books and Literature

• Find connections between your favorite authors at Literature Map
• Digital Comic Museum features public domain comics from the Golden Age
• Theoi is an encyclopedia of Greek gods/goddesses (and Encyclopedia Mythica offers pronunciation guides!)

...About Art

• Guggenheim Museum's books at archive.org

Historical Media

• Find open-source and copyright-free media at CreativeCommons search
• Digital Public Library of America amazing resource of historic materials
• The British Library has digitized many historic texts and images
• Europeana historical documents and lots of art
• Personal record of London Jews in WWI
• Ancient History Encyclopedia is a curated resource with plenty of maps, articles, and images of historical media.
• Northwestern University's collection of posters from WWII

Advertising

• Archive of advertisements, both television and print
• Ad*Access, Duke University's archive of advertisements from 1911-1955
• [AdAge], an online advertising magazine
• Vintage Ad Browser, over 100,000 categorized print ads

Science Materials

• Encyclopedia of Life seeks to collect information and pictures of all forms of life on Earth

Free Education!

• Coursera, (mostly) free online education on any topic
• Academic Earth, free online courses
• The Open Textbook Library at the University of Minnesota

Documentaries and Videos

• Free Documentaries
• SnagFilms lots of free documentaries here, too, as well as low-budget short films to inspire
• TED—always worth your time
• Cinemetrics, an incredible database of cinema data: length, average shot length, number of shots. Also offers free software to measure your own videos

Self-improvement, Organization

• TiddlyWiki, an absurdly simple personal wiki
• Habitica, an online app to help you learn better habits
• Vote Smart provides the voting record and positions of government officials

Game Building

• Mud allows you to create and play immersive, multiplayer, pure-text RPGs

Tech Tools

• Eloquent Javascript, open source textbook on Javascript for beginners and advanced coders.
• Amazing book by Daniel Shiffman on the mathematical principles of nature and how to represent them in code: The Nature of Code
• Daniel Shiffman's Programming from A to Z. Worth your time
• RAW turns spreadsheet data into vector graphics
• Turn your Google Drive folder into a PDF
• Use Git to get your code to others easily tutorial/intro here
• Dirty Markup will clean up your code

Webpage Design

• Don't Fear the Internet is a beautifully clear series of tutorials (written and video) that can guide you in how these webpage things work
• Web design in 4 minutes. It shouldn't work, but this is a really great introduction.
• If you liked that, check out his code on GitHub.

I Like Processing.

• Learn Processing through an interactive book
• Learn Processing (and JavaScript) through a series of outstanding videos here
• Learn Processing through some intro videos
• Processing examples and code

These are Almost Tools.

• Atari 2600 VCS emulator
• Run Windows 95 in your browser
• Castles Made of Castles

See Also

Open Journals