Online Tools
From TSAS Library
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
Books and Literature
- Find connections between your favorite authors at Literature Map
- Approaches to Postmodernism
- Glossa open-access linguistics journal (formerly Lingua)
- Digital Comic Museum features public domain comics from the Golden Age
...About Art
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
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- Europeana historical documents and lots of art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
Science Materials
- Encyclopedia of Life seeks to collect information and pictures of all forms of life on Earth
- PLOS, Public Library of Science, nonprofit publisher of scholarly works and academic papers
- BioRxiv, biology research
- SocArXiv, sociology research
- arXiv, open access to 1,180,311 e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics
- PeerJ, peer-reviewed, open-access articles on life-, bio-, health sciences and computer science
Open-source Scholarship
- Directory of Open-Access Journals disseminates free academic papers
- ShareOK, shared resources between OU and OSU
- MLA Commons, repository of open access materials
- Open Library of Humanities open-access, peer-reviewed articles from classics, modern languages and cultures, philosophy, theology and history, to political theory, sociology, anthropology, film and new media studies, and digital humanities
Free Education!
- Coursera, (mostly) free online education on any topic
- Academic Earth, free online courses
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