OLPC deployed to a school in India… worth looking at

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Khairat_Chronicle

Class assignments that matter:

http://www.physorg.com/news113071167.html

Instead of giving people an assignment that is just going to be graded and thrown away, get students to do things that keep giving. Write wikipedia articles, document software, create a web application, moderate a news group, etc. The article linked above tells about one such experience with assigning wikipedia articles to written as an assignment.

Google OpenSocial is live:

http://mashable.com/2007/11/02/opensocial-now-live/
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/ http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/docs/

http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/firstgadget.html
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/tutorial.html
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/bestprac.html

http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/readwrite.html
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/faq.html

20+ Tools To Sell Your Photos and Templates Online
http://mashable.com/2007/11/02/sell-your-photos/

9 Great tools for achieving your goals
http://mashable.com/2007/11/02/achieving-your-goals/

10 Effective Ways to Increase Your Energy Levels
http://www.dumblittleman.com/2007/11/10-effective-ways-to-increase-your.html
Actually, the Dumb Little Man , looks like a good self help site… I’ll have to check back on it…

Open Hardware
http://www.buglabs.net/
Modular, open hardware platform…worth looking into if you like to build electronic things…
Look like their products page:
http://www.buglabs.net/products

Free classes on starting a small business from the SBA
http://www.sba.gov/services/training/onlinecourses/index.html

Free Audio Books online
http://www.podiobooks.com/index.php

236 Open Courseware Collections, Podcasts, and Videos

http://www.dumblittleman.com/2007/09/236-open-courseware-collections.html

80 Sites to Help you Live Green
http://www.dumblittleman.com/2007/08/80-sites-to-help-you-live-green.html

Instant domain search (trying to find the new name for that site… use this!!!)
http://instantdomainsearch.com/

Disposable Phone Numbers
http://www.dumblittleman.com/2007/06/free-disposable-phone-numbers.html
http://numbr.com/

Disposable email addresses
http://www.dumblittleman.com/2006/06/disposable-email-addresses.html
http://www.pookmail.com/