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Reminds me of Plastic Love: http://www.openculture.com/201...

But intended meaning can differ from your own interpretation. For example, if you think that Fahrenheit 451 is about censorship, Ray Bradbury would say you are wrong.

> Hell, let's just extrapolate this to the greater internet, sure
> would make things nice again, more like the early days.

This idea "was extrapolated to the voting booth" in the 1960s. http://www.openculture.com/201...

How about 1927's Metropolis - http://www.openculture.com/201...

Television, in addition to carrying on the benefit of radio, shows students the world rather than simply referring to points on a map. Different cultures and environments can be described in full color with fluid video, rather than hoping the student understands a short text description that too often seems absurd due to its foreign context.

Really?

Yes, really. There's much more, but you can find that for yourself. No, it doesn't replace classroom learning, but it can be an excellent adjunct to it.

Guessing, the default combination and being able to brute-dorce the combination while the safe was open. It's arather entertaining story

"enormous"
http://www.openculture.com/2012/03/neil_degrasse_tyson_how_much_would_you_pay_for_the_universe.html

Yeah I had a look through the Coursera web site and was actually able to sign up to the class, since the exam isn't actually finally due until tomorrow morning. So I guess I'll at least download the reference materials and see if they help any :)

The course I've mentioned is here: http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses/quantum-mechanics/2012/winter . I've heard good things about it and I suspect it is probably one of the more in depth classes, but it is not for the feint of heart. I'm probably doing myself a disservice by trying to jump into the middle of QM skipping over a few maths classes along the way :)

Courera seems much nicer, so I'll keep an eye out (and will look into edx). Unfortunately there isn't anything super relevent starting soon, but there is one on realtivity that has a week or two left. If anyone is interested, there is a large directory of courses here: http://www.openculture.com/

Really, Here's an article and interview with Nichelle Nichols on how important her role was to both women and African Americans

Are available here.

Happy studying.

>> hand the system over to a bunch of nations that don't believe in free speech.

As a Brit now living in the US, I was surprised by the large difference between the EU and the US in what is considered "allowable speech". People are MUCH more restricted in the US than in the EU both by police and worse, societal norms as a whole. Also I was surprised by how US police act like thugs and bullies even as a first response. EU cops wouldn't ever do that.
For example look what happened at your Lincoln Memorial (more than once apparently):
http://www.openculture.com/2011/05/dont_dance_at_the_lincoln_memorial.html

When you Americans say you live in the "The Land of the Free" do you REALLY believe it? If so, you need to get out and see the world and get a reality check for yourselves.

I'm not saying the EU is perfect, we have our own issues, however in this respect its better.
At least we can peacefully protest and say what we want without fear that our cops would or could kick our heads in then get away with it.

I will hide here: http://www.jamendo.com/
Or here: http://listen.grooveshark.com/
And here: http://www.fsf.org/
And definitely here: http://creativecommons.org/
And why not here: http://www.fanfiction.net/
Or here: http://www.openculture.com/free_ebooks
... and a myriad of other places on the Internet, including those where I publish my own works.

That being said, I don't think abolishing copyright will mean the end of commercial media, since there are many other ways to make money from them. For example, most blockbuster movies make most of their profit in the first one or two weeks, and people are willing to pay a premium to see the film early, with high quality, and added value features like 3D and advanced sound systems. TV productions are almost entirely financed by advertisements, not future DVD sales. Most artists already earn most of their income from concerts, not from CD/downloadable music sales. And so on.

For pre-U education to brush up your knowledge, there's Khan Academy to teach you everything from primary school to even college.

For formal university level education, you can get many of them free directly from university. MIT Open Courseware is one of the well known examples. You can find a list of them at Open Culture. Google Code University is a less known but great site that helps you start and search on your online education journey.

There are also video lecture collection sites that contain lecture recordings from various universities, such as Academic Earth and Video Lectures.

You may also interested in less formal technology videos such as BestTechVideos and Google Tech Talks.

You can download a lot of ebooks from the web. Here is an example list you can found on Delicious.

In case if you are only interested in web design, IMHO the best way to learn design and multimedia is go to a real college. But anyway, there are tons of resources for web design too. Delicious is a must have search tool for you to get started.

I'd love to provide more links that I have but I'm short of time. But as always, Google is your best friend!