student loans. to create a better society, we would encourage education and spend money on ensuring everyone could get the education they wanted. Instead we give out loans that many students struggle to repay, and throw money at war efforts thousands of miles away.

the best linux podcast ever.

guy from sweden, a Qt hacker and instructor, will try to learn you Qt via his blog. Exciting and fun! And with QtCreator...this could be VERY informative.

a hacker magazine, with a radio show, and sometimes a "best of" compendium. they also usually have local meetings, so check in your area for one and attend! need to find out if there's a 2600 meeting near you? http://www.2600.com/meetings/mtg.html

KDE is a desktop environment like Windows Explorer or Mac OS Finder (the little blue happy face on your dock). And it's also a full collection of great apps; there's "Amarok" so you can listen to your music collection, there's "K Office" for all your word processing and spreadsheets, "Krita" for photo manipulation, "digiKam" for managing your photo collection and working in the digital darkroom, "Kopete" for your instant messaging, "KDEnlive" to edit video, and so much more! You can try many of the apps out on Windows and Mac, but for the full experience, you gotta run this on Linux!

Slackware Linux. The best most Unix-like Linux around.

Advanced GNU Linux operating system. One of the best.

Setting up a business? need servers? desktops? Go Red Hat.

A free Operating System for your computer. This is a flavor of the popular Linux OS you always hear about -- you know, the software that basically runs the entire internet, probably your email, possibly your GPS, the Google Android phones, and so much more. Oh -- best thing about it, it's free...legally...and it doesn't suck like Windows and Mac OS!

An exhaustive GNU+Linux Links and Podcast Directory. If it's not here, it doesn't exist. Unless, of course, it does.

A podcast about hacking and technology and software and all that good stuff. It's daily, Monday-Friday, and entirely generated by its listeners. From the good folks at Binary Revolution.

An Oggcast I co-co-co-co-co-host, all about GNU+Linux. Or at least, ostensibly about GNU+Linux. Used to be known as Linux Cranks, forked into this.

my GNU+Linux Oggcast