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http://www.khanacademy.org “A free world-class education for anyone anywhere.” Founded in 2006 by a MIT grad, and quickly gaining a global audience, kudos, and grants from the likes of the Gates Foundation and Google, Khan academy wants to shake education up through better use of technology, and challenging how to think about accreditation.

http://arxiv.org This site is pronounced “archive.org” as if the x were the Greek letter Chi, but it shouldn’t be confused with archive.org – home of the Wayback Machine.   This site is a nerd paradise courtesy of Cornell University.   Quoting from the site, arxiv.org offers “Open access to 736,347 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, [...]

HTTP://HACKNMOD.COM Like it sounds.

http://www.hackintosh.com/ Release your Mac OS. Also a bonus website, specifically regarding jailbreaking your iPad… http://www.jailbreakipads.org/

  http://www.labspaces.net/ A true nerd site this week. LabSpaces.net is a social network for the scientific community designed to spread scientific news, maintain and create friendships, and harbor collaboration through the internet. The site serves as a web profile for researchers and labs, and is also a community for active communication in the sciences.

  http://www.lettersofnote.com Letters of Note is what it sounds like, a collection of various entertaining historical correspondences worth a moment of your time.  This one sealed the deal for me – Laura Huxley’s letter recounting the death of her husband – http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/03/most-beautiful-death.html

http://nationalpinballmuseum.org In honor of their opening day today in Baltimore.  Art, science and pop culture collide!

http://www.creativeapplications.net/ One digital art blog worth a lengthier look.  

http://aviationintel.com/   “Where strategy, technology and opinon meet at the speed of sound.” A great aviation tech blog that seems to regularly nab juicy stuff.  The writing is also entertaining and not dry wonk drone.

http://videojs.com/ A free, open source HTML 5 video player, for folks like me, who now need such a thing… thanks to the ghost of Steve Jobs.

http://www.decide.com/ One for all you consumers… a great site for deciding when to by a particular electronic device.  Thanks to Floyd for this one.  It’s oddly addictive to check out the price graphs.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html The Mars Science Lab just successfully launched and is headed to Mars.  Check out the details of what this mission has planned.