links for 2008-04-01

• DIY Education: Teach Yourself - Lifehack.org
  While you may need a certificate in order to be a licensed professional of some sort you don’t need to attend an expensive class for many of your other learning needs. Links to some great self-directed learning sites
  (tags: courses diy creativity education learning reference elearning)
• eduCommons — COSL
  an OpenCourseWare management system designed specifically to support OpenCourseWare projects
  (tags: cms collaboration copyright database edtech education opencourseware opensource ocw learning publishing educommons)
• Internet Archive: Lost Children
  EPs and Full Lengths from Instrumental/Experimental/Post-Rockish kind of bands
  (tags: copyleft free mp3 multimedia music post-rock creativecommons downloads postrock netlabel lostchildren)
• Read The Words
  a free, web based text to speech service. Will convert uploaded docs (word, pdf, html files and text), cut and paste; RSS and URLs
  (tags: accessibility audio mp3 reading voice podcast conversion)
• VRlab - Umeå University
  software for playing with 2D multi-physics simulations in a cartoony fashion.
  (tags: programming 2d visualisationvrlab vr)
• Cyclic Defrost Magazine - independent eclectic music journalism from Australia
  an Australian electronic music magazine covering independent electronic music, avant-rock, experimental sound art and leftfield hip hop.
  (tags: audio australian blog culture music magazine electronic experimental electronica)