Always strive to learn something useful. --Sophocles

By the way, there's a How I Built This NPR podcast with the founders of Lonely Planet that was quite interesting and entertaining.

ANYWAY, lots of good stuff! The bundle launched today and is up for two weeks. Myself, I'm just buying the $1 level, though that might change if I get the job at the school district. The books Epic Drives of the World and Epic Hikes of the World certainly have a lot of appeal.

As usual, the books are DRM-free and available in PDF, Kindle, and Epub formats. Top tier is $15, and the default charity is the National Park Foundation!

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/national-parks-2019-books

There's an Intro To Code bundle from from Zenva Academy, an organization that I had never heard from before. Three tiers to the bundle, the first offers Learning Python Programming by Making a Game, Intro to Game Development, Numpy Matrices and Vectors, Learn HTML and CSS by Creating a Responsive Company Website, and The Complete Responsive Web Design Course. You get all that for $1.

For currently just under $14, you can add on VR Projects - Flying Platform Experience, Create a Road Crossing Game with Phaser 3, Create a Spanish Teaching Game with Phaser 3, Learn Angular by Creating a Web Application, Blender for Beginners - Craft Low-Poly Game Assets, Create Your First 3D Game, JavaScript Programming - Learn by Making a Mobile Game, and Beginning SQL - Store and Query Your Data.

For $25 you get the above plus Procedural Content Generation with Unity, VR Projects- 360 Photo Experience, Build a Virtual Pet Game with Phaser 3, Python Image Processing - Make Instagram-Style Filters, Create a RaspberryPi Smart Security Camera, The Complete Artificial Neural Network Course, RPG Game Development - Turn-Based Battle Systems, Audio Effects and Soundtracks in Unity Games, Data Manipulation with Pandas, The Complete Guide to Bootstrap 4, Discover jQuery - Create Interactive Websites, and Create an RPG Town with NPCs and Dialogs.

This seems to be entirely online content, I don't know if there's downloadable material once you begin one of the courses. The bundle is available for another 13 days and 20 hours from the time of this post. The current charities on offer are Girls Who Code, Code.org, and Chairty:Water. And the courses claim compatibility with Windows, Mac, and *nix.

If you have any interest in learning how to create web sites, this is an excellent source for one lousy buck. That won't even get you a cup of coffee these days!

https://www.humblebundle.com/software/intro-to-code-bundle

Humble Bundle is doing a pretty cool collection that might be just for you. Meself, I'm not keen on audiobooks, but hey -- I don't mind it if you want to get it. It's mostly The Doctor with three Torchwood CDs, but there's also a Davros series of four discs! Those make me mildly interested.

I use the term CDs incorrectly: everything is an MP3 download and without any form of DRM. The default charity is the BBC Children In Need fund, though you can specify other charities.

$15 gets you the complete set, and it's available for another 5 days.

More info at:
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/doctor-who-torchwood-audiobooks


The fiction collection at Humble Bundle features the likes of Octavia Butler, Jo Clayton, Katherine Kurtz, Robin McKinley, and others. They're all in DRM-free formats, suitable for iPad or Kindle or Nook or just reading on a computer. There's also a mystery book that will be revealed in five days....

The default charity is First Books, a "nonprofit social enterprise that provides new books and educational resources to programs and schools serving children in need".

$15 gets you everything, and it's available for another 12 days.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/women-of-scifi-and-fantasy-book-bundle

This is a curious collection that includes fiction co-authored by the drummer of Rush, Neal Pert, three volumes of Scott Pilgrim, a biography of Brian Epstein, a song by the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, and lots of other stuff. This can all be yours for the low, low price of $15! (if you want everything)

The bundle is available for another week.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books

Humble Bundle is selling many, MANY hours of Dr. Who audiobooks, voiced by David Tennant, Colin Baker, and I'm not sure who else. A donation of $15 opens everything with some more content yet to be announced. This particular bundle is helping support Doctors Without Borders, who definitely can use the funding after fighting the Ebola outbreaks in Africa.

I'm personally not a big audiobook fan, but we have a 600 mile drive home tomorrow and this will be a good way to supplement what I already have lined up to listen to.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books

They are:
Machine of Death, a short story collection which is nicely illustrate by a video called This is the Way You Die. The Machine of Death takes a quarter, a drop of your blood, and spits out a piece of paper that tells you how you will die. But it's not always as straight forward as the slip saying Old Age. Watch the video.

Also:
xkcd volume 0
The Poison Eaters, by Holly Black
and
Signal To Noise, by Neil Gaiman and David McKean

https://www.humblebundle.com

Five graphic novels have been added from XKCD, Penny Arcade, and Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. The bundle is only available for another week.

http://www.humblebundle.com/