With these site you will deffinetely still your hunger for music. I’ve included as many different sites as possible; from blogs and music lists to encyclopedias.

Album Art

1. Albumart
2. ALLCDCovers

Bying music

1. Alterhit*
2. The CD Exchange
3. CD Universe
4. Emusic
5. Lala
6. MP3 Rocket
7. the Vinyl Underground

Listen or download free music

1. AccuRadio
2. Amie Street
3. BlueBeat.com
4. Download.com Music
5. finetune
6. Grooveshark
7. gruvr
8. JamNow
9. Jango
10. Jiwa
11. Live365
12. LoudCity
13. Magnatune
14. MeeMix
15. Moboogie
16. Musicovery
17. Peoplesound
18. Podbop
19. Qtrax
20. RADIO.BLOG.CLUB
21. SHOUTcast
22. social.fm
23. Streema
24. We7
25. Wolfgang’s Vault

Lists and reccommedation sites

1. Acclaimed Music
2. All Time Top 100 Albums by Martijn Boeren
3. CRITICAL METRICS
4. DJ Martian: Music of the 00s Portal
5. Fast ‘n’ Bulbous
6. Jazz 100 Top Jazz CDs
7. Jumping Fences
8. Les Disques de l’anneé
9. Metacritic.com Music Reviews
10. Music Nerds
11. Muzieklijstjes
12. MyStrands Music
13. poplist
14. PopMatters
15. Popular Music Best-Of-Lists List
16. Rockcritics.com
17. Rocklist.net
18. Rolling Stone
19. Rate Your Music
20. Spin Magazine Online
21. VinylSurrender.com All-time Music Charts

Lyrics

1. A-Z Lyrics Universe
2. Lyrics.com
3. LYRICS Mania
4. Metrolyrics

Music blogs

1. 3hive
2. Daytrotter
3. The Hype Machine
4. Idolator
5. largehearted boy
6. music is art
7. RCRD LBL
8. Ryan’s Smashing Life
9. soul sides
10. Sixeyes
11. SMtv
12. Spinner.com
13. Stereogum

Music communities

1. Anywhere.FM
2. ArtistServer.com
3. Buzznet
4. Deezer
5. iJigg.com
6. iLike
7. IMEEM
8. Indaba Music
9. last.fm
10. MOG
11. Muxtape
12. nuTsie.com
13. SeeqPod
14. Staump.com
15. TuneShout.com
16. Tune Your World

Music delivery and distribution services

1. SellaBand
2. Slicethepie
3. TuneCore

Music encyclopedias

1. Allmusic
2. Discogs
3. Mahalo Music
4. Musipedia
5. Prog Archives.com
6. Songstuff

Music portals

1. ACIDplanet.com
2. AUDIO-DEMOCRACY.COM
3. BBC Music
4. Billboard.com
5. Discollective
6. Epitonic.com
7. GarageBand.com
8. Hoooka.com
9. indieSolo
10. iSOUND.COM
11. Jamendo Music
12. Music.com
13. purevolume
14. Soundpedia
15. Yahoo! Music

Online radio

1. Pandora
2. Pig Radio
3. Slacker

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Many students still use aged methods of learning. They are not only very boring but also very inefficient. That’s why I’m giving you tips on learning the efficient and fun way.

Note: these tips don’t only apply for students but anyone who is eager to learn something.

1. Goals

The way we think is influent on the way we feel. If you want to be efficient in learning we first must cover this.

Many of us hate learning and that is understandable because we still
use the old and tedious methods. But with this attidude you’re only
going to make it worse for yourself

Always go to class with your goal in mind and you will start seeing it more as a tool to get to where you want to be. A famous quote is that of Stephen Covey: “Start with the end in mind”. With this attitude you won’t see your study as a useless waist of time.

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I recently received an email from Capt. Tom Bunn LCSW, the founder of SOAR, a company that specialized in helping people overcome their fear of flying, giving another 10 tips to conquer your fear of flying.

All credits go to Capt. Tom Bunn LCSW from SOAR.

CAPTAIN TOM’S TOP TEN TIPS ON FEAR OF FLYING

1. Dealing with Anticipatory Anxiety
Use the 5-4-3-2-1 Exercise

First, keep in mind that this is a “band aid” fix, and it takes a lotof work. There are far more powerful techniques I can teach you any of these courses (click on the underlined title for more info):

SOAR Video Course on DVD

SOAR Audio Course On MP3

SOAR Video Course on MP4

SOAR FastTrack

Once you start to relax, you may actually become afraid to not be afraid. It is easy to think that you can cause something bad to happen by failing to worry enough. We can talk about this more in a counseling session (or you will find info on this in the SOAR Course).

As I said, this is a “band aid” which takes a lot of work. Completely effortless and automatic relief from high anxiety and panic is taught — and practiced — in the SOAR Course. What you learn makes it impossible to panic.

I can also teach you t his in a counseling session which will help immediately, I’m at 877 332-7359 or 203 258-4803 and available from 10 AM until 7 PM Eastern time (same as New York).

Here is an outline of the 5-4-3-2-1 exercise

Sit or recline comfortably. Focus on some object in front of you. Keep your focus on that throughout the exercise. (If you eyes drift off, just bring them back.) Do it out loud first. Then, try it silently. See if one works better for you than the other.

Maintaining focus, say the words “I see” and then name something in your peripheral vision. Then say “I see” and name something else in your peripheral vision. Continue until you have made five statements.

For example: I see the lamp, I see the table, I see a spot on the lamp shade, I see a book on the table, I see a picture on the table.

Maintaining focus, say the words “I hear” and name something you hear. Then say “I hear” and name something else you hear. Continue until you have made five statements.

NOTE: you will have to repeat something if there are not five different things you can hear. For example: I hear the computer running, I hear a car outside, I hear my breathing, I hear my voice, . . . (running out of things, repeat one of them), I hear the computer running.

Maintaining focus, say the words “I feel” and name something you feel (not internal, like heart pounding or tension, but external). For example: I feel the chair under me, I feel my arm against my leg, I feel my left foot on the floor, I feel my right foot on the floor, feel the shirt on my shoulder.

That completes one cycle. It takes intense concentration. That is exactly what we want. As you concentrate on non-threatening things, the “fight or flight” hormones that were in your body when you started the exercise get burned off. As they get used up, you get more relaxed.

See, you don’t have to MAKE yourself relax; as the old ones get used up, you just get more relaxed.

What about the next cycle? If you always made five statements, you soon could do the exercise WITHOUT intense concentration, and your mind could drift back to “bad” thoughts.

To keep the concentration intense, we make one change each cycle . . . instead of doing five statements again, we do four statements. Then, in the next cycle, we do three statements. Then, in the next cycle, we do two statements. Then, in the next cycle, we do one statement. Then, in the next cycle, we go back to five, etc.

Is it OK to name the same things? Sure. Same or different is fine . . . just whatever comes to mind.

When do you stop? When you are as relaxed as you want to be, just stop. If you want to be more relaxed, or to fall asleep, continue. If you lose count, that is a good sign because it means you are getting so relaxed that you are losing count.

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Many people have fear of flying, and that’s a bad thing because if you want to go on a ‘real’ vacation you eventually have to take the plane. So hear are eleven tips to conquer this fear.

1. Acknowledge the problem.
Really a lot of people have a fear of flying. You can get it any moment in your life, by for instance a bad experience or stress in your personal life. Even some flight attendants have it. So your not alone, and it’s nothing to be ashamed about. But to do something about this fear, you must first recognize it. Don’t try to avoid it but actually take the plane. You may be in fear, but fear won’t kill you. Don’t postpone the moment you’re going to the airport, but be there early. This will take away a lot of stress.

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If someone would shout: ‘Will the real smart classical Greek philosopher please stand up?’, then undoubtedly Aristotle (384-322 BCE) would’ve stood up. Aristotle isn’t only an essential philosopher in the evolution of the western thinking, he also has dictated it for a whole millennium. The western civilization is influenced by Aristotle, till atleast the 17th century.
Aristotle was born fourteen years after the death of Socates in Stagirus, a Greek colony on the coast of Thrace. His father was the personal physician to King Amyntas of Macedon. However the fact that his father died when Aristotle was a young boy, he still kept a good and long relation with the Macedonians. On the age of seventeen he was send to Athens to study. He got an excellent education, Plato was his teacher! There, on Plato’s famous school, the Academy, he listened to Plato’s lectures for twenty years. He eventually, in his later years, began to give lectures himself, especially about rhetorics.
Plato wasn’t the only famous companion of Aristotle. Thanks to the contacts with the Macedonians he became trusted with raising up no one other then Alexander the Great, at that time thirteen years old. After the death of Plato he didn’t follow him as the head of the Academy, although he was most fitted for the job. But the differences in thinking between him and Plato have gotten too big.
After the sudden death of Alexander in 323 BCE and the following overthrowing of the pro-Macedonian government Aristotle fled from Athens when the new elite charged against him because of impiety. With reference to the death of Socrates Aristotle let know its fellow citizen of Athens that he would leave Athens so that they won’t commence a sin against covetousness again. He died about a year later in Chalcis.

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Socrates was the teacher and mentor of Plato (427-347 BCE), but his protégé gave an whole new twist and interpretation to the art of philosophy. As did his teacher so did Plato as philosophical questions that are still being ask today by philsophers. But Plato kept himself occupied with the fundamental ‘ontological principle’ of the universe and the basis of the human knowledge. Socrates brought philosophy to the marketsquare, but Plato brought it back to ethereal altitudes.
Plato was the son of well-to-do Athenian parents. He was a gifted child and finally became the favorite student of Socrates and the most important exponent of his study. On his fortiest he established the famous Academy, where he instructed and wrote till his death.
Plato accepted the socratic method of his study and building upon that he developed a complete theory of the universe. His dialogues reveal us not only the socratic way of thinking, but help us too to penetrate deeper in the abstract truths.

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