Encyclopedia contributed by its users

Link : en.wikipedia.org
Comment : Wikipedia - your doorway to the world
Uses a collaborative form of message editing by which people set up stubs and posts
which the whole community helps in editing and maintaining. Works on the principle of 'do what you can'. Since the whole community is pitching in small efforts are enough to get huge tasks done.

Chain Mails, Hoaxes, Scams and Spam

Links :
www.hoaxbusters.ciac.org/
www.urbanlegends.about.com/
www.truthorfiction.com/
www.hoax-slayer.com/

Info:
http://diamond-back.com/emailhoaxes.html
http://web.mit.edu/ist/isnews/v19/n04/190404.html (how to handle email)

Comment:
Do you get loads of email
a)Giving a sob story about people in trouble etc. "Forward this or else..."
b)Rumours about strange (bad) things that happened to someone (scare tactics)
Check that rumour, hoax, chain-mail at your inbox.
Internet anti-hoax sites or informative sites about email hoaxes etc.

Wikipedia on Acupuncture

Link : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acupuncture
Comment : Great info on Acupuncture

Secure Programming

Links :
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/programmer/secure-programming/
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Intrusion-INTRO/

Comment: Interesting stuff, esp. the links/bibliography section of the FAQ.

The Art of Learning (and by extension The Art of Teaching)

Link : http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/01/crash_course_in.html

Comment : I found a good blog on Learning How to Teach for Maximum Retention by Students.... You may want to go through this blog on "Crash Course in Learning Theory"
This blog is written by the authors and explains the philosophy behind the writing of "Head First Design Patterns" and Cognitive Science & Learning Theory in general.

Common models of Quantum Physics

Link : http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_3/chpt_2/2.html
Comment : A great link on some common models of Quantum physics and why they don't explain things properly.

Jumping Interests

Link : http://archives.betterhumans.com/Forums/tabid/55/forumid/9/postid/2408/view/topic/Default.aspx
Comment : Ever feel that you jump from one interest to another? Well read this....

Life in the Future, Written in the Past

Link : http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue113/p20_21st_CENTURY_COMPUTING.php
Comment : Interesting Read.
21st century life from Comput! Magazine as seen from 1989
COMPUTE! ISSUE 113 / OCTOBER 1989 / PAGE 20
Got here from slashdot.org

Great Audio Wiki - All things Audio

Link : http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Download_page#Tagging_Utilities
Comment : Excellent user community wiki on All things Audio. Ripping, tagging, different filetypes specific stuff.