Cryptology

Ok I admit it I watched Da Vinci Code too many times and my latest obsession has become- cryptology or code breaking. This is some really cool stuff. I'm more into the crypto-analytic end of it from a historical perspective than the modern lets protect your credit cards from thieves deal. It can get pretty heavy into mathematics which as far as I've ever discovered I have absolutely no talent for whatsoever. Nevertheless if you're curious about the field I thought this was a good site to start off with:

http://www.simonsingh.com/Crypto_Corner.html

I wonder if anyone has ever written a novel completely in code. That might be a fun project.

Free Sheet Music

Are you a musician? I played violin for many, many years when I was younger. Really loved it and miss it a bunch as I don't play so much now. Anyway, I ran across a great site that has lots of free sheet music not just for violin but piano, guitar and a whole bunch of other instruments as well.

www.8notes.com

Free Yale Classes

I ran across this today and thought it looked interesting

http://open.yale.edu/courses/english/index.html

Free mp3s of lectures from Yale. They cover a wide variety of topics from the sciences to English Poetry.

Russian Audio Books

I've run across a great site for free Russian audio books.

http://www.konsultant.ru/ab/index.cfm

It's all in Russian but I guess if you didn't speak some to begin with you wouldn't want the audio anyway right?? Typically right click and save as on the part where it says MP3 gets you straight to paradise I found.

Want the texts in Russian to go along with it? I've got that too also for free

http://lib.aldebaran.ru/author/

Very cool stuff. The audio is great quality with really good voices too. I've been checking out Shakespeare. I know I'll probably never understand half of it in Russian but just hearing it is kind of neat don't you think??