Free Stuff

Over the last 10 years or so, the Internet has become a huge, glogal marketplace where you can buy or sell just about anything. And that's cool. But what's even cooler is that the Internet has also become a huge, global opportunity for people to share things without requiring payment.

I've been posting links to some free online games I've come across because some of them are a lot of fun, and because they're great when you really need to take a break and kill 10 or 15 minutes (or two-and-a-half hours!!!). I'm also going to start posting links to other cool free things on the Net -- like free music, free software, etc. And these things aren't 'free' because you're stealing them. They're free because the people who created them want to share.

Two sites that have some great free stuff are Connexions and the MIT OpenCourceWare sites. Both of these websites have free college courses. The courses from MIT include the course syllabus, reading list, lecture notes, and assignments, while the courses on Connexions are complete online classes with everything you need made available in your browser.

I don't know how many FreeCashSpace readers are likely to be interested in that kind of thing, but I thought I'd share just in case. Personally, I think both sites are really cool. But then, I'm one of those people who's always 'taking a class' of one kind or another. Now I can take 'American Foreign Policy: Past, Present, and Future' at MIT and 'Sound Reasoning -- Interactive Music Appreciation' from Rice University. Sweet!

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