For 26 years, Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton (left) shepherded kids through the exciting world of books. The show, which fostered a love of reading, was the third longest-running program in PBS history, outlasted only by Sesame Street and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

A fantastic little physics sandbox. Create simple shapes, change their properties, watch them interact. A great way to lose a lot of time.

Sort of like interactive language flashcards, but with several more features. OS X only.

You may not know it, but deep within your dusty binders and spiral notebooks lurk strange and wonderous creatures!

"Bryan Killian says that he follows the Pastafarian religion, and that as a crucial part of his faith, he must wear 'full pirate regalia' as prescribed in the holy texts of Pastafarianism."

If you don't study... may as well be a little creative.

"After a public school teacher was recorded telling students they belonged in hell if they did not accept Jesus as their savior, the school board has banned taping in class without an instructor’s permission..."

Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound.

"DAD: Soap molecules are long chains with a polar, hydrophilic head and a non-polar, hydrophobic tail. Can you say ‘hydrophilic’?" "SARAH: Aidrofawwic"

"I've had many instructors before and since, but few that I remember with as much fondness - and why my favorite professor was a chronic liar."

Some awesome humor from the Atheists of Silicon Valley.

'A couple of years back, an X-Box with some variant of Linux installed had been put in the server room to support a subject designed to teach computer-illiterate Philosophy students how to build their own web pages.'

How to whistle with two finger in your mouth, loudly.

"Much better," Zeus declared, cuddling the furry little animal. "I’m going to call him Buttons."

4 games a week, each based around a theme of some sort. Sweet!

A board game based on C/C++/Java. Where was this piece of awesome when I was a kid? I was learning BASIC from a book on writing RPGs.

Learning the fundamentals of programming while playing a board game