Helene

There are several places where one can get free audio books. It’s great to listen to on the road, waiting on the bus etc. It’s also a great tip for people with insomnia problems. I sometimes aren’t able to sleep all night, and the feeling of desperation because I don’t get the sleep I need is not fun. That’s one of the moments where I understand why people become drug addicts. Just anything than the state I’m at, in that particular moment. I think the reason why audio books works so great for me is that they are not in my language, and because I think in images. Everything I hear, I see (which is why I can become nauseous when somebody tells me in details about when they broke their legs etc).

Podiobooks contains podcasts where one can subscribe to episodes in a RSS feed, and they have recent books where the copyright haven’t expired, but the authors uses creative commons or the likes.

Librivox provides free audiobooks from the public domain (the copyright has expired). You can also volunteer to read in books if you’d like.

Manybooks have also a large collection of audio books. At the moment of writing this post, they had 838 audio books available.

I have read a lot of books of Mercedes Lackey, and when I found out she and Steve Libbey released a joint project, The Secret World Chronicles, I raced to the opportunity.

As most people I like to roam the web for interesting sites, people, knowledge, forums etc. One of my favorites are Eirik Newth (in norwegian). He’s an author, blogger, astrophysicist and one of the prominent intellectual persons in Norway.

He is one of the persons that have a genuine interests for every scientific subject there is, though I have yet to find something about religion and philosophy. He did take a trip last year through India with his family, so I’m thinking he has to have some interest in that area as well. It would have been nice the hear his thoughts in that regard as well.

Anyway, here are some links to his blogs and radioshow:
His personal webpage and blog (english version of his page, though not as frequently updated)
Future and futuristic thinking blog (norwegian)
Vitenskapsprogrammet – his radio show on Radio Norge(norwegian). I love the podcasts.

I have been to a couple of lectures that’s about inspiration and fulfilling your life’s purpose. I always come out of them thinking: good for them. All they do is talking about their own life and experiences and it doesn’t really give me much except having spent some time doing something else for a while.

So, during my browsing of ITunes I found a lecture from Randy Pausch titled “Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”. To my surprise I found out he died just some days ago. It was a good lecture and I found myself looking through the entire thing. So here it is for you:

A long time ago I read about Scott Adams (the dilbert creator) that overcame an uncurable disease. He wrote a blog post about it that I found very inspirational. So may be you would like it too. You must scroll down on the page, I was only able to find it through an website archive:
Scott Adams – Good news day

Enjoy !