The Nietzsche Family Circus
"Randomized pairings of Family Circus cartoons and Friedrich Nietzsche quotes."
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No Film School
No Film School is the leading worldwide community of filmmakers, video producers, and independent creatives. No Film School is where filmmakers learn from each other — “no film school” required.
Office Sway - Create and share amazing stories, presentations, and more
Use Sway to easily create and share a polished, interactive, web-based canvas of your ideas with family, friends, teachers, and coworkers. Sway makes sure your creation looks great on any screen.
Gitter — Where developers come to talk.
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Gratitude, Credit, and Exchange Online: Flickr Selling CC Images Is About More than The Money | MIT Center for Civic Media
"Last week, Yahoo! announced that Flickr would start selling prints of Creative Commons licensed photos, and that they would only pay some of the photographers. Some commentators, like Jeffrey Zeldman, see it as a breach of good will. Mike Masnick at Techdirt argues that this is a victory for open licensing, which "is about giving up control so that other people can benefit." Ben Werdmuller, co-founder of Indieweb social platform Known, argues that users don't understand the license, and that we need to give creators more clear controls. I think there's something deeper going on, something signaled by Zing Tsjeng at Dazed when he complains that "the only credit they'll [photographers] get is a small sticker at the bottom of the print bearing their name." In this post, I'll explain why I think this is about more than money, offer a design suggestion to Yahoo!, and propose a study we could run to find out how to reconcile the values of open licensing with the discomfort people are feeling"
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Leanpub: Publish Early, Publish Often
"Authors and publishers use Leanpub to publish amazing in-progress and completed books."
20 Great Opening Lines to Inspire the Start of Your Story
"As Glinda the Good Witch says in The Wizard of Oz, “It’s always best to start at the beginning.” That’s where editors and literary agents generally get going, so perhaps you should, too. Here are some strategies, accompanied by exemplars from literature, for making the first line of your novel or short story stand out so that the reader can’t help but go on to the second and the third and so on to see what else you have to say"
Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
Literary Devices | Definition and Examples of Literary Terms
"Literary Devices refers to the typical structures used by writers in their works to convey his or her messages in a simple manner to the readers. When employed properly, the different literary devices help readers to appreciate, interpret and analyze a literary work. Below is a list of literary devices with detailed definition and examples."
Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories and Good News vs. Bad News | Brain Pickings
"This season has been ripe with Kurt Vonnegut releases, from the highly anticipated collection of his letters to his first and last works introduced by his daughter, shedding new light on the beloved author both as a complex character and a masterful storyteller. All the recent excitement reminded me of an old favorite, in which Vonnegut maps out the shapes of stories, with equal parts irreverence and perceptive insight, along the “G-I axis” of Good Fortune and Ill Fortune and the “B-E axis” of Beginning and Entropy. The below footage is an excerpt from a longer talk, the transcript of which was published in its entirety in Vonnegut’s almost-memoir A Man Without a Country (public library) under a section titled “Here is a lesson in creative writing,” featuring Vonnegut’s hand-drawn diagrams."
Mind Over Media: Analyzing Contemporary Propaganda
Educators prepare people for full participation in contemporary culture. The Media Education Lab is exploring the theme of propaganda because it is a ubiquitous feature of our daily lives. As citizens of a global media landscape, the ability to recognize and resist propaganda is important. In helping build people’s critical thinking and communication skills, we seek to promote dialogue and discussion about what constitutes contemporary propaganda and how it may have positive, benign or negative impact on individuals and society. We respect the power of digital crowdsourcing, active interpretation, and reflection as a means to cultivate robust yet respectful dialogue about the wide variety of forms of contemporary propaganda that surround us in our cultural environment.
Teach Empathy With Digital Immigration Stories | Edutopia
"How important is integrating empathy instruction into the curriculum? Essential. As Edutopia blogger Elena Aguilar wrote recently, "There's enough evidence in our world today that we need to intentionally cultivate empathy." As I've suggested in a previous post, welcoming immigrant students into the classroom is important, given that we are a nation of immigrants. These occasions can also be an opportunity to foster empathy."
WordPress Performance Outside of the Box: Handling and Retrieving Data
"This is more of an experimental type of approach to performance in regards to storing and retrieving data. The results are absolutely astounding, and the process is definitely worth considering if your project meets the criterium."
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Playground from ZURB | Design tools and creative experiments
"The Playground is ZURB’s repository for technical experiments. When it comes to web technologies, anything goes on the Playground, whether it’s playing with JavaScript or crafting a love potion in CSS. You'll find everything from plugins to code snippets to downloadable tools to help you design better."
50 Most-Wanted WordPress Tips, Tricks and Hacks - Hongkiat
Previously we have featured more than 30 hacks and tricks to customize WordPress. But WordPress has been through several iterations and updates since the publication of that compilation. Some WordPress functions has been dropped, some have been replaced with better approaches that render some tricks you know no longer usable. We figured that you might want new tips, tricks and hacks that do work with the latest version of WordPress. Here are 50. As a friendly reminder, please practice caution when attempting any of the tips in the Advanced section because you might render your site unusable if you don’t know what you are doing.
How to write a photoplay : Hoagland, Herbert Case : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
by Herbert Case Hoagland, 1912
An Introduction to RSS - WP RSS Aggregator
"Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is one of the most popular forms of media delivery in the 21st century. Today, RSS is used to consume media in an organised and unimaginably large quantity. Starting from breaking news, to award ceremonies to natural disaster updates – the applications of RSS are only limited by the user."
The death of RSS in a single graph at andrewchen
"I recently wrote a blog post about moving all my RSS readers to email subscriptions, and I immediately got 30+ negative comments on it. Obviously it struck a cord. I still believe what I said, and here’s some more data and reasoning to back it up"
Is RSS Dead? A Look At The Numbers
"RSS has taken some big hits recently. Of course, people have been announcing the death of RSS pretty much since it came into existence, but when Google Reader bit the dust on July 1st, 2013, many were ready to place a wreath at the headstone and walk away. But like gossip, RSS just will not die. Why?"
The Rise of Universities, by Charles Homer Haskins
"The History of Education is not a common topic of discussion, in general. There are a lot of scattered mentions of medieval universities, students and professors in many of the texts already here on Elfinspell. An overall picture of higher education before the Renaissance seemed in order. This book is a series of 3 lectures given by C. H. Haskins at Brown University on the subject, given in 1923. They are good, entertaining and comprehensive lectures, if relatively short, on the subject. Enjoyable reading and plenty of quotes from the periods in question make this survey good reading. At least, I think so, and I hope you do as well. Begin with the Title and Description of the Colver Lecture Series, or just get started with the first lecture, The Earliest Universities."
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The texts new and old are newly prepared and adapted for the Internet. They have been typed not scanned. Some texts are in the public domain, any others are used with permission granted by the copyright holders. In the process, gentle emendations have been done and so noted in the source code. (There can never be too many proofreaders!). While emending the older works, there is always the chance that we might have added our own typos, although the texts are checked line by line with the original (of the older works). Therefore, these are not exact reproductions of the public domain texts, although changes are very slight (a different footnote system, obvious typos fixed, etc.) Occasionally, new notes and new pictures are also included (with a note signifying that it is new). The author of these portions of the text, etc. is the copyright holder. Therefore, please ask permission before using any of the content of the site. It is okay to use small portions (a few lines, a paragraph, etc.) with a reference to the page, as is usual and the honest thing to do. We do like to share and it is easy to get our okay. Copies of any the texts, etc., may be freely copied for classroom (real ones!) purposes. You don't have to tell us then but we would truly love knowing any of our stuff is useful. Hearing from you makes learning what a psili or dasia is and what href means all worthwhile.
Cataloging the World » Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
"In 1934, fifty years before the first web browser, Paul Otlet described a system of networked computers—or “electric telescopes”—that would allow people to search through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and video files. As the network spread, he foresaw it uniting individuals and institutions of all stripes—from local bookstores and classrooms to universities and governments. He dubbed the whole thing a réseau mondial: a “worldwide network.” In one remarkably prescient passage, he wrote: Everything in the universe, and everything of man, would be registered at a distance as it was produced. In this way a moving image of the world will be established, a true mirror of his memory. From a distance, everyone will be able to read text, enlarged and limited to the desired subject, projected on an individual screen. In this way, everyone from his armchair will be able to contemplate creation in its entirety or in certain of its parts. Who was Paul Otlet?"
PixSteward : Backup and Archive Your Pictures from Flickr
"The Essential flickr® Backup and Database for Mac"
Free stock photos licensed CC0 · Pexels
It's hard to understand complex licenses that is why all photos on Pexels are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. This means you can copy, modify, distribute and perform the photos. The pictures are free for personal and even for commercial use. All without asking for permission or setting a link to the source. So that attribution is not required. All in all the photos are completely free to be used for any legal purpose. The CC0 license was released by the non-profit organization Creative Commons (CC). Get more information about the license on the official license page.
Leaflet - a JavaScript library for mobile-friendly maps
"Leaflet is a modern open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. It is developed by Vladimir Agafonkin with a team of dedicated contributors. Weighing just about 33 KB of JS, it has all the features most developers ever need for online maps. "
Rolling Stones MBone Broadcast Nov 18, 1994
"Nov 18th 2014 marked the 20th Anniversary of the Rolling Stones Broadcast over the Internet’s MBONE (Multicast Backbone). It announced the arrival of the Internet for the masses where information and entertainment would challenge the very infrastructure that embraced it. The Idea, spawned from the labs of Thinking Pictures in New York - straight out of the MIT Media Lab. I was proud to have worked with Eric Schmidt & the terrific people at Sun Microsystem - in partnering with the Rolling Stones to introduce the world to the MBONE and the thing called the World Wide Web. From that day forward a period in television’s history was earmarked as broadcasters embarked on a brave new world."
Working Out Loud | For a better career and life
Now, twenty years later, there’s even more of an imperative to help people find meaning and fulfillment at work and in their lives. I’ve found that the best way to do that is working out loud. I’ve seen – first for myself, then for friends and colleagues I coached, and now in peer support groups around the world – how working out loud helps people become more effective, more connected, and happier. So now I want to help millions of people have that experience. The book, this website, and the working out loud circles are all part of that aspiration. With a little help developing a few skills and habits, everyone can have a better career and life.
When will we Work Out Loud? Soon! | TheBrycesWrite
"One of my favorite phrases to use for describing behaviors and critical outcomes of using Social Collaboration tools is “Work Out Loud.” So I was thrilled (from afar) to see some of the tweets around the topic from the Santa Clara version of the E20 Conference a few weeks ago. The terminology emerged from a few sessions, most notably the session by Brian Tullis and Joe Crumpler titled “In the Flow: Patterns of Observable Work.” I also love Joe’s follow-up blog post, Narrating Your Work, as a testimonial to the concepts working in action. So we’ve got “Working Out Loud” bouncing around with “Observable Work” and “Narrating Your Work” as options we can use to teach folks new behaviors within our companies and ways to leverage open social collaboration capabilities. I think fundamentally each phrase is trying to convey the same point. Although, as I thought about each, I tried to think how people may interpret each phrase if they had never heard them before. I thought some different interpretations were possible, and here is how I am resolving it all in my head: Working Out Loud = Observable Work + Narrating Your Work"