Miscellaneous, Cool Stuff

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What I Read

Tech News/Tips Sites:

• MakeUseOf [Feed]
  
• Lifehacker [Feed]
  
• The How-To Geek [Feed]
  
• Lifehack - Technology [Feed]
  
• Komando [Newsletter]

Other

• What If? (by XKCD) [Feed]
  Hilarious weekly answer to theoretical science questions
  
• First Presidency Message [Feed]
  When a Prophet speaks, I hope I'm listening
  
• Middle-Aged Mormon Man (MMM) [Feed]
  Satire, Humor, faith, and a bit of inspiration
  
• Clark Howard [Feed]
  Interesting financial advice and discussion
  
• NPR's Planet Money [Feed]
  My favorite economics podcast
  
• Scott Hanselman's Blog [Feed]
  Famous .NET developer and tech guru with good ideas
• Matt Walsh Blog [Feed]
  My thoughts with a lot more fire and humor

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Financial

• Mint.com
  Aggregates all your financial accounts/transactions into one easy-to-use dashboard
  
• CreditKarma
  Free and detailed credit monitoring and reporting-- excellent and automated
• Manilla
  Archives copies of your bills and reminds you to make payments

Streaming Music

• Grooveshark
  My favorite alternative to Spotify-- it doesn't require registration, its ads are less annoying, the selection is great, and it has webapp access
  
• Spotify
  I wasn't a big fan of Spotify until they granted access to playlists through phones not long ago.
• Pandora
  Classic internet radio
• TuneIn
  Listen to thousands of radio stations across the world

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Online Education

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• KhanAcademy
• Coursera
• OpenCulture

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Text Adventure Platforms

• TextAdventures
  Create and play text adventure games like Zork and Colossal Caverns
• PortableQuest
  Kindle-compatible version of famous text adventure games
• DOSBox (portable)
  Emulator for playing text adventure games on your computer
• Frotz.NET (portable)
  Runner for text adventure Z-games

Text Adventure Games

• Super Star Trek [standalone - portable]
• Zork
• InteractiveFiction Archive
• Interactive Fiction Database

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