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Miscellaneous, Cool Stuff


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

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

Online Education
  • MIT OpenCourseWare
  • KhanAcademy
  • Coursera
  • OpenCulture

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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