Feedbooks: Food for the mind 80 Online Resources for Book Lovers | KevinBondelli.com: Youth Vote, Technology, Politics This was originally a post from last year from another blog that I no longer keep. I figured I would post it on here since it was fairly popular and wasn’t available online. Social Networking for Book Lovers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. E-books 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. Online Bookstores 43. 44. 45. 46. Find the Best Prices for Books 47. 48. 49. Audiobooks 50. 51. 52. 53. Study Guides and Summaries 54. 55. Library Resources 56. 57. Bibliography and Research 58. 59. 60. 61. Book Exchanges/Swapping 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. Online Documents 73. 74. What to Read 75. 76. 77. Miscellaneous 78. 79. 80.
Grimm Brothers ugly and idle one, because she was her own daughter; and the other, who was a step-daughter, was obliged to do all the work, and be the Cinderella of the house. Every day the poor girl had to sit by a well, in the highway, and spin and spin till her fingers bled. Now it happened that one day the shuttle was marked with her blood, so she dipped it in the well, to wash the mark off; but it dropped out of her hand and fell to the bottom. So the girl went back to the well, and did not know what to do; and in the sorrow of her heart she jumped into the well to get the shuttle. At last she came to a little house, out of which an old woman peeped; but she had such large teeth that the girl was frightened, and was about to run away. But the old woman called out to her, "What are you afraid of, dear child? As the old woman spoke so kindly to her, the girl took courage and agreed to enter her service. She stayed some time with Mother Holle, and then she became sad. "Cock-a-doodle-doo!
This Is How Apple Changes Education, Forever Apple’s plan to bring iPad textbooks to schools across America and around the world via iBooks 2 and iBooks Author is nothing short of a revolution. It could mean the end of giant, overused dog-eared volumes jammed into bulging backpacks balanced atop the over-burdened backs of America’s youth. It might also mean I’ll never have to explain to my daughter again where the rest of chapter 16 went. A couple of months ago, my 13-year-old junior high-school-attending daughter was diligently plowing through piles of homework. Part of it involved reading a chapter in her Social Studies text book and then answering questions on a worksheet about what she read. However, when I looked over at my daughter, she had her head of curls in her hands. “I can’t finish my homework,” she said without looking at me. “Why not?” “Here.” I stared at it uncomprehending. “What’s wrong with it?” “The…pages…are…missing,” she said slowly as if speaking to a particularly dense child. Tired Old Textbooks Questions
Martin Scorsese's Film School: The 85 Films You Need To See To Know Anything About Film Interviewing Martin Scorsese is like taking a master class in film. Fast Company’s four-hour interview with the director for the December-January cover story was ostensibly about his career, and how he had been able to stay so creative through years of battling studios. But the Hugo director punctuated everything he said with references to movies: 85 of them, in fact, all listed below. Some of the movies he discussed (note: the descriptions for these are below in quotes, denoting his own words). Others he just mentioned (noted below with short plot descriptions and no quotes). Ace in the Hole: “This Billy Wilder film was so tough and brutal in its cynicism that it died a sudden death at the box office, and they re-released it under the title Big Carnival, which didn’t help. All That Heaven Allows: In this Douglas Sirk melodrama, Rock Hudson plays a gardener who falls in love with a society widow played by Jane Wyman. The Band Wagon: “It’s my favorite of the Vincente Minnelli musicals.
Twisted Melon - Fine Mac OS Software Great Books Index - List of Titles An Index to Online Great Books in English Translation To obtain an index of an author's works, including any known online editions of each work, and online articles about that author, select the author's name. To obtain an index of online editions of a particular work, select the name of that work. Authors are listed here in order of their birthdates (insofar as known). The Bible -- Homer -- Aeschylus -- Sophocles -- Euripides -- Herodotus -- Thucydides -- Hippocrates -- Aristophanes -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Euclid -- Archimedes -- Apollonius -- Lucretius -- Virgil -- Tacitus -- Epictetus -- Nicomachus -- Plutarch -- Ptolemy -- Marcus Aurelius -- Galen -- Plotinus -- St Augustine -- The Quran -- St Thomas Aquinas -- Dante -- Chaucer -- Erasmus -- Machiavelli -- Copernicus -- Rabelais -- John Calvin -- Montaigne -- William Gilbert -- Cervantes -- Francis Bacon -- Galileo -- William Shakespeare -- Johannes Kepler -- William Harvey -- Thomas Hobbes -- Descartes -- John Milton -- Moliere -- Blaise Pascal -- Christiaan Huygens -- Goethe --
10 Best Sexual Drinking Games Some of the best sexual drinking games can be done either in an intimate setting with only you and your girlfriend or you can make it a party and have multiple people. The ten most commonly played sexual drinking games are: Nine cans of beer or the floor. In this game you will need about nine cans of beer per person, (NOTE: not everyone will finish this game) a shot glass and a time keeper.
Seo Young Deoks Incredible Chain Sculptures photo © Seo Young Deok The human body and its formation lie at the core of the Korean artist Seo Young Deok’s work who is preoccupied with the stories told through the human figure. His solo exhibition 'Dystopia' took place at the INSA/Arko Art Centre in Seoul from 26 October 2011 until 31 October 2011 and showed his nude sculptures made meticulously in welded metal chain links piece by piece. Seo Young Deok presented a number of nude sculptures, some lying on the ground, some hung on the walls. He used welded metal chains in order to model them linking them piece-by-piece. What Seo Young Deok’s sculptures capture is the anxieties of the modern human and especially the anxieties of the younger generation. One might also go as far as to say that the fact that he is using chain and therefore a form of linkage is an attempt to present the natural form as one with the manmade and the mechanized. Discover Seo Young Deok's chain sculptures through the pictures that follow: sources:
Cal in the Capital | UC Berkeley After a sleepless night flight, pillow-less and having been unable to recline my seat, I arrived in Washington DC. It was a quiet Monday morning, and it was Memorial Day. It would also be the first time I would set foot on the East Coast in my memory (I was stroller aged the last time I had been here). My mom had her best friend's niece's family pick me up from the airport. My first glimpses of the city were of empty streets and massive buildings as they drove me to the UCDC center. No California palm trees, no skinny San Francisco pastel houses, no bay breeze--but definitely a lot of statues, grassy circles, earthy brick, and clinging heat. Because of family's extreme hospitality, I was quickly settled into the UCDC center with everything I could need and more. Despite the advantage of having a smartphone, I got lost on my way there. Through more wandering, tasty discoveries (the gelato!)
How to play the Midnight Man Game with Rules It is highly recommended that you do not play the midnight game, however here are some instructions for thrill seekers. Do at your own risk; 1. It must be exactly 12:00 AM when you begin the ritual, or else it will not work. You will need; Candles Paper and Pencils A wooden front door Salt A pin needle All the lights in the house off Step 1: Everyone who is playing the midnight game must write their names on a piece of paper, then use a pin needle to drop a single drop of their blood onto the paper Step 2: Place the paper in front of your front door. Step 3: Light a candle Step 4: Knock on your front door exactly 22 times. Step 5: Open your door, blow out the candle, and close it. Step 6: Your goal for the rest of the game is to survive the Midnight Man. Signs that the Midnight Man is nearby: * Your candle blows out * You suddenly get very cold * You hear a low whisper * You see a black humanoid figure within the darkness
Create paintings from photos Did you ever wanted to be a great artist? But unfortunately you are really bad at it? Well that's ok because now with Psykopaint you can be a great artist with no skills. CF "Ice Breaker" Questions Great questions designed to help people in small groups get to know one another. If you could live in any sitcom, which one would it be? What was in your high school locker? Best dessert you have ever had? Something interesting you might not know about me is . . . Editor, October 2008: I have disabled the Submit Question feature. Editor, January 2016: This list has been available since 1998!