Frontera Collection of Mexican-American Music

The Arhoolie Foundation's Strachwitz Frontera Collection of commercially produced Mexican and Mexican-American Recordings (the Frontera Collection) is the largest repository of Mexican and Mexican-American vernacular recordings in existence. To preserve this unique heritage, the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center is now digitizing the first section of the collection, consisting of 78 rpm phonograph recordings. Once in digital format, this vast collection of approximately 30,000 performances, primarily in Spanish, recorded during the first half of the twentieth century, predominantly in the United States and Mexico, will be available to researchers and the general public.

YouTube EDU

More than 100 colleges and universities have set up channels on YouTube and beginning this week they are all available on the new YouTube EDU. Lectures for more than 200 college courses are available. Subjects range from computer science to literature, biology to philosophy, history, political science, psychology, law and much more.

Top 10 Surf Colleges

Check it out dude! Surfline ranks the top 10 surf colleges.

Internet Explorer 8 Released

Internet Explorer 8 has been released in 25 languages. It contains many new enhancements and additions including more privacy protection with InPrivate Searching, faster net access from within web pages with Accelerators, and more.

Download the new Internet Explorer 8.

TRF Policy Map: Demographic Mapping Service

PolicyMap is an innovative geographic information system which allows you to easily create custom maps, tables, and charts. Though they offer a paid premium service their free service includes datasets such as Census, Postal Service, FBI Crime, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, County Business Patterns, HUD, HHS and much more. PolicyMap is a revolutionary, easy, new way to explore geographic data through maps, tables and reports.

The Top 18 New Money Mangement Sites

Wall$treet Fighter blog offers a list of the top 18 new web 2.0 money management sites. This list covers new sites offering services in a variety of specialized fields ranging from online banking, personal finance, investing, business tools, shared bills and housing prices.