Get Net savvy

http://www.getnetsavvy.info/

Older posts but still very informative.

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The Return of the School Satchel

reuters-video-design-classic-is-new-brit-it-bag.html

The Composites

http://thecomposites.tumblr.com/
 

No matter how lovingly a fictional character is rendered in print, he or she is still just a figment of the literary imagination, with a face readers can only imagine.

Inevitably, a film adaptation prompts protests that whoever was cast doesn’t get the look quite right, though it’s never truly clear just what the look should be.

But now a new website uses police technology to sketch out faces of characters described in notable novels. Called The Composites, it shows images of literary characters created by using the author’s description of a character with law enforcement composite-sketch software

The website shows the faces of Humbert Humbert, from Nabokov’s Lolita, Vaughan, from JG Ballard’s Crash, Aomame, from Haruki Murakami‘s 1Q84, Emma Bovary, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and many others.

The new site gained 6,000 followers in the first three days. Many fans have submitted the description of their favourite character and asked for a composite sketch.

Brian Joseph Davis, a writer, media artist and co-founder of the online literary magazine Joyland, came up with the idea while reading crime novels.

He showed the BBC how to compose the face of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Lisbeth Salander, and explains why he thinks the internet will save literature
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17104725

re:cite referencing guide

http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/recite/index.html

A University of Melbourne library guide to referencing, citation and acknowledgement in your research and essay writing.

TED quotes

http://www.ted.com/quotes
The wonderful TED talks now has a quote section, where each quote links back to the original talk.

Facts, insight and humor —
in shareable bites

TED Quotes brings you salient bits of TEDTalks, on everything from activism to storytelling, from chemistry to curiosity.

Making presentations

 http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/05/25/the-best-sources-of-advice-for-making-good-presentations/
From the indefatigable Larry Ferlazzo comes a long list of sources for advice on producing the best presentations. “The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs” is particularly inspiring.

Amazing Van Gogh animation