December 15th, 2005
My fifth grader is wanting to learn how to create animated cartoons over Christmas break, and since my Flash skills are sadly rusty, I decided to browse around for some good Flash animation tutorials - and did I ever find them. Check out this looonnnggg list of free Flash animation tutorials; I would suggest that […]
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December 15th, 2005
Check out America’s Most Literate Cities - did your city make the cut? More information:
” Drawing from a variety of available data resources, the America’s Most Literate Cities study ranks the 69 largest cities (population 250,000 and above) in the United States. Previous editions of this study focused on five key indicators of literacy: […]
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December 14th, 2005
Yahoo Podcasts is a great way to find some interesting podcasts on the Web. First of all, what is a podcast? A podcast is nothing more than an audio recording, a radio show, but online instead of on your radio. Anybody can record a podcast. If my cat wanted to record a podcast detailing […]
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December 14th, 2005
Cooking By Numbers is a great site for those of us who know how to fill our fridges with food but then are at a loss as to how to exactly put it all together in some kind of edible fashion. Simply fill in the ingredients that you have (about 50 common ingredients are […]
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December 13th, 2005
I’m all for free stuff because, well, I’m super cheap. Yep. Anyway, here’s a quick roundup of some freebies I found on the Web:
Free Quilt Patterns: Printable quilt motifs
Lorie Line Free Sheet Music: Download free sheet music in a .pdf file
National Geographic Free Printable Posters: Some really gorgeous photos here; need a color printer to […]
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December 13th, 2005
If you haven’t already, you need to visit the amazing Smithsonian Museum site on the Web. While it’s no substitute for the real thing, it comes pretty close. Here are a just a few highlights:
September 11: Bearing Witness to History: Part of the amazing History and Culture collection.
Julia Child’s Kitchen at the Smithsonian: Tour […]
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December 13th, 2005
With the execution of Tookie Williams this week, I found myself revisiting some sites I haven’t visited in a while from a college project many moons ago. Here’s a few Death Row websites where you can view information about Death Row inmates:
Texas Death Row: Includes offender information, scheduled executions, and gender and racial stats.
Women on […]
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December 12th, 2005
I’m a longtime user of del.icio.us; well, as long as they’ve been around which has only been about 9 months. Anyway, I found this great collection of del.icio.us tools that I highly suggest you check out. This collection includes:
The Easiest Way to Publish del.icio.us Links on Your Site
Import Furl Bookmarks to del.icio.us
Cloudalicious: graph any […]
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December 11th, 2005
Read Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in its entirety on the Web, with original illustrations. From the University of Virginia Library.
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December 11th, 2005
Well, perhaps that song is not too far off. Literally.
Check out LifeGems, a site all about diamonds and tributes and love is life’s greatest risk and everything was fine until I read the What is a Lifegem? page:
“The LifeGem® is a certified, high-quality diamond created from the carbon of your loved one as […]
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