Templar Studios - Interactive Entertainment

Templar Studios - Interactive Entertainment: extremely cool showcase site.

Sounds from Soundstorm Sound Effects Library

Sounds from Soundstorm Sound Effects Library: "Here you can explore and purchase Sounds from Oscar winning Hollywood sound effects designers, Soundstorm, the award winning sound editorial house. "

The OSSwin project: Open Source for Windows!

OSSWin Project is open source for windows.

A List Apart: A List Apart

A List Apart: for people who make websites.

The Link Collection Is Also Online

The Link Collection: exciting links for boring days, in no particular order.

Welcome to INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections

InfoMINE:"This scholarly resource collection includes more than 100,000 sites, grouped into 9 annotated, indexed categories (databases) for easy retrieval. This librarian-built "virtual library of Internet resources [is] relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level," while also very useful for higher-level high school and professionals, too."

§ [EssentialWare] § Home §

§ [EssentialWare] § Home § : Hey! you've managed to find my little list of freeware. All the programs contained herein have been used by me and are Flatrabbit Certified©

sodaconstructor

Soda Constructor applet. Engineering simulation.

RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters

RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters: "This tutorial explains the features and benefits of a Web format called RSS, and gives a brief technical overview of it. It also includes information on a similar format called Atom. The reader is assumed to have some familiarity with XML and other Web technologies. It is not meant to be exhaustive; for more information, see the ‘More Information about RSS’ section."

Welcome to Color Matters - Table of Contents

Welcome to Color Matters - Table of Contents: "Color plays a vitally important role in the world in which we live. Color can sway thinking, change actions, and cause reactions. It can irritate or soothe your eyes, raise your blood pressure or suppress your appetite."

Custom Fibonacci Spiral Generator

Custom Fibonacci Spiral Generator: "The Natural Intelligence Custom Fibonacci Spiral Generator allows the user to create his or her own large Fibonacci spiral images. Each spiral is based on a small tile image, either from those supplied with the application, or one which the user provides."

Welcome to Blackboard!

Welcome to Blackboard!

Bare Bones Guide to HTML

The Bare Bones Guide to HTML "lists all the tags that current browsers are likely to recognize. I have included all the elements in the official HTML 4.0 recommendation with common attributes, as well as Netscape and Microsoft extensions. This document is a quick reference, not a complete specification; for official information about HTML and its development, see the World Wide Web Consortium site at http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/.">Bare Bones Guide to HTML: "The Bare Bones Guide to HTML lists all the tags that current browsers are likely to recognize. I have included all the elements in the official HTML 4.0 recommendation with common attributes, as well as Netscape and Microsoft extensions. This document is a quick reference, not a complete specification; for official information about HTML and its development, see the World Wide Web Consortium site at http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/."

EDGE Games

Edge Interactive Media -- Games and smart toys, hard fun.

Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel has " compiled a large number of video clips over the years; here's a look a some of the most popular..." includes link to Android Science

PBS VIDEOIndex Online -- Home Page

PBS VIDEOIndex Online -- Home Page: "This online searchable web site containing detailed information about PBS VIDEOindex® programs that lead you to the perfect video segments in U.S. and world history, economics, government, science, the arts and more."

Main Page - M/Cyclopedia of New Media

Main Page - M/Cyclopedia of New Media

Themes for the Future of New Media | Echo Chamber Project

Themes for the Future of New Media | Echo Chamber Project: "Using the tagging technique in Final Cut Pro described here, I was able to come up with a number of major themes from the interviews that I conducted with 13 leaders of the new media movement at the Personal Democracy Forum.

* Internet revolution was in the Demand Side and not just the Supply Side.
* Audience are not just consumers, they're now producers
* Audiences can now supply their own demand.
* Audience wants more choice and control
* Markets are conversations
* Journalism is becoming more of a conversation than a lecture.

* Technology is rapidly changing Politics, Media & Culture.
* The Internet changes everything
* There are a lot more changes in the future that are totally unknown.

* There will be more balancing between top-down Hierarchy with bottom-up Grassroots
* Culture will no longer come from centralized sources of mass media.

* Blogs will give mainstream media more competition, but won't replace them
* Intelligence of the Network transcends the intelligence of an Individual
* Americans from all stripes are getting fed up with the mainstream media."

eZediaQTI - The Simple Way to the Web

eZediaQTI - The Simple Way to the Web: "eZediaQTI 2 is the next generation in multimedia authoring software for the web.

eZediaQTI uses drag-and-drop technology that lets you create web sites, online presentations, interactive movies and Internet banners quickly - with no HTML programming knowledge required. "

Recording the Flame: Woodfired Pottery

Recording the Flame: Woodfired Pottery: "This documentary, based on the 2nd International Woodfire Conference, provides an exceptional educational opportunity to enlighten and inform the general public about this little-known tradition of pottery."

Inventing Modern America: Links & Resources

Inventing Modern America: Links & Resources: There are hundreds of books and web sites covering invention, patents, inventors, and the products they have created. We’ve put together a very selective list of some of these sites and sources. You can find many more with a good search engine, at your library, or on the Lemelson-MIT Program’s Invention Dimension.

SIQSS Home Page

SIQSS Home Page host to the Internet and Society Study

Goldstein: Does Playing Violent Video Games Cause Aggressive Behavior?

"DOES PLAYING VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES CAUSE AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR?"

27 October 2001

Jeffrey Goldstein, Ph.D.
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

Some social psychologists argue that playing violent video games causes aggressive behavior, among other things (desensitization to violence, disinhibition of violence, belief in a ‘scary world,’ acquisition of cognitive schemas supportive of aggression). Three types of evidence are said to converge in support of this conclusion: correlational studies, field studies (which are typically correlational in nature), and laboratory experiments.

Correlational studies can tell us nothing about whether violent video games cause aggression. Even if we accept that there is a correlation between amount of time spent playing (violent) video games and aggressive behavior, there is no reason to think that games are the cause of aggression (Anderson & Dill, 2000; Colwell & Payne, 2000; Roe & Muijs, 1998). Furthermore, some correlational studies find no significant relationship with aggression (e.g., Sacher, 1993; van Schie & Wiegman, 1997)."

FindSounds - Sound Types

FindSounds - Sound Types: What types of sounds can be found on the Web using FindSounds? Below is a partial list. Click on any link below to perform a search, or enter one or more words in the search box above and then click on the Search button.

RSA Films

RSA Films offers access to directors' showreels. Lots of young talent here.

Netdiver Magazine - Flashware --> best FLASH sites

Netdiver Magazine - Flashware --> best FLASH sites

Design Matters

Serif Tariq's design tutorials are useful and alsoattractive in their own right.

bitkraft digital theatrics

bitkraft digital theatrics showcasesw the multimedia/digital interactives work of Philip Glofcheske.

Audio Field Recording Equipment Guide :: Vermont Folklife Center Middlebury VT

Audio Field Recording Equipment Guide

The Vermont Folklife Center
3 Court Street / P.O. Box 442
Middlebury, Vermont 05753
Phone 802-388-4964 / Fax 802-388-1844
info@vermontfolklifecenter.org / www.vermontfolklifecenter.org Audio Field Recording Equipment Guide :: Vermont Folklife Center Middlebury VT: "Audio Field Recording Equipment Guide

The Vermont Folklife Center
3 Court Street / P.O. Box 442
Middlebury, Vermont 05753
Phone 802-388-4964 / Fax 802-388-1844
info@vermontfolklifecenter.org / www.vermontfolklifecenter.org "

www.dontclick.it

Don't Click it! is a website with an interface you don't click.

Web Page Design for Designers

Web Page Design for Designers features useful info for that group, including "Adapting print design skills for the Web", a feature by Joe Gillespie: "If you've learned your design skills in the context of print, as many designers do, and you want to try your hand at some Web design, you have an excellent head start."

MajorGeeks.com - Download Freeware and Shareware Computer Utilities.

MajorGeeks.com - Download Freeware and Shareware Computer Utilities.

A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations:
"Bierce, Ambrose
(1842-?1914)
b. Meggs Co., Ohio

An inventor is a person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."

Nvu - The Complete Web Authoring System for Linux, Macintosh and Windows

NVU is an open source web aurhtoring system for Linux as well as Windows and Mac Users. N-VU is pronounced "n-view" -- as in "new view."

ColorMixers: Remixing RGB since 2003

ColorMixers: Remixing RGB since 2003

Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a museum of the web as it has been...includes music, video as well as pages and art.

CSS From the Ground Up - 1

CSS From the Ground Up - 1: "CSS from the Ground Up
Introduction
If you are frightened by the prospects of using Cascading Style Sheets, there's no need to be. Using a computer can be daunting for someone coming to it afresh but after a while, you think nothing of it. It all comes down to taking small steps to begin with and that's what I'm going to do in this series of tutorials. One step at a time!"

MakeZine.com: Free TiVo: Build a Better DVR out of an Old PC

MakeZine.com: Free TiVo: Build a Better DVR out of an Old PC: cool hack

Flash Tutorials and Free Files for Cartoonists and Other Flash Developers

Flash Tutorials and Free files for flash people.

cat haiku

cat haiku: "You never feed me.
Perhaps I'll sleep on your face.
That will sure show you.

You must scratch me there!
Yes, above my tail!
Behold, elevator butt.

The rule for today:
Touch my tail, I shred your hand.
New rule tomorrow.

In deep sleep hear sound
cat vomit hairball somewhere
will find in morning.

Grace personified.
I leap into the window.
I meant to do that.

Blur of motion, then --
silence, me, a paper bag.
What is so funny?

The mighty hunter
Returns with gifts of plump birds --
your foot just squashed one.

You're always typing.
Well, let's see you ignore my
sitting on your hands.

My small cardboard box.
You cannot see me if I
can just hide my head.

Terrible battle.
I fought for hours. Come and see!
What's a 'term paper?'

Small brave carnivores
Kill pine cones and mosquitoes,
Fear vacuum cleaner

I want to be close
to you. Can I fit my head
inside your armpit?

Wanna go outside.
Oh, poop! Help! I got outside!
Let me back inside!

Oh no! Big One
has been trapped by newspaper!
Cat to the rescue!

Humans are so strange.
Mine lies still in bed, then screams;
My claws are not that sharp.

"

HTMLCenter - Tutorials - HTML, Javascript, Graphics, Photoshop, Download Photoshop Actions and More!

HTMLCenter - Tutorials - HTML, Javascript, Graphics, Photoshop, Download Photoshop Actions and More!: "HTMLCenter Tutorials
Welcome to the HTMLCenter tutorials and downloads section. Below is a random sampling of each section's tutorials.

HTML dHTML CSS

* Dreamweaver Templates
* Embedding
* Basic Frames
* HTML 4 Intro
* Tables

View all HTML tutorials

* dHTML Intro
* Netscape Layers
* IE DHTML
* Cross-browser dhtml
* DOM Based Rollovers

View all dHTML tutorials

* Cascading Style Sheets
* Applying CSS
* CSS
* CSS Selectors
* CSS Text

View all CSS tutorials"

Hotscripts.com :: JavaScript

Hotscripts.com :: JavaScript: "JavaScript Categories

Books (9)
Various books on programming in JavaScript.
References (8)
References to help programming in JavaScript
Scripts and Programs (1,995)
Categorized database of JavaScript programs.
Software (62)
A selection of software for aiding in JavaScript programming.
Tips and Tutorials (177)
Various tips and tutorials on programming in JavaScript.
Web Sites (83)
Sites and archives offering a large number of JavaScripts and resources."

Physics Flash Animations

Physics Flash Animations: " * Chaos
* Classical Mechanics
* Electricity and Magnetism
* Micrometer Caliper"

Before & After magazine

Before & After magazine: graphic design for regular people.

Plus Magazine

Plus Magazine is all math..

CHILDHOOD BRAIN MODIFICATION: Do This Now

CHILDHOOD BRAIN MODIFICATION: Do This Now

Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ How to Create an RSS Feed With Notepad, a Web Server, and a Beer

Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ How to Create an RSS Feed With Notepad, a Web Server, and a Beer

A List Apart: Articles: Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE!

DOCTYPES in web development.

PATHWAY: INVENTION: Science, Optics and You

optics tutorials are available from here.

Electronic Learning Communities > Research Projects

Electronic Learning Communities > Research Projects at Goergia Tech (where Amy Bruckman is ) incluide virtual environments for education (french, math among them)

The Official String Theory Web Site

The Official String Theory Web Site: everything you wanted to know.

All your base are belong to us - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

All Your Base wiki page.

Radio-Locator

MIT's Radio-Locator bills itself as "the most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet. We have links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world."

Angry Alien Productions, Sase and Topsie

Angry Alien Productions, Sase and Topsie: Flash movies re-enacting popular films in 30-seconds. With Bunnies.

RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters

RSS Tutorial also discusses Atom.

homeostatic | v1.0

Homeostatic.net is a web design firm. This site is cool -- it's not a site; it's an "environment."

American Poems - YOUR Poetry Site

American Poems: actual reall honest to gosh poetree

flyGuy.swf

FlyGuy! Is a little cartoon greeting card. Fly, guy!

Picture010.jpg

Picture010.jpg,
originally uploaded by hlfuller.

Redate: The Creative Anniversary Calculator

Redate: The Creative Anniversary Calculator

Microsoft Interview Questions

Microsoft Interview Questions are opportunities to demonstrate your skill at problem solving -- the approach is more important than the solution.

HYBRIDWORKS

HYBRIDWORKS: Japanese Flash site.

World Jump Day

World Jump Day

CSS Panic Guide

CSS Panic Guide

/* Position Is Everything */ — Modern browser bugs explained in detail!

/* Position Is Everything */ — Modern browser bugs explained in detail!: CSS and CSS-P

Interactive DOM scripting

Interactive DOM scripting

Bad Human Factors Designs

Bad Human Factors Designs

Hotscripts.com :: PHP :: Scripts and Programs

Hotscripts.com :: PHP :: Scripts and Programs

Web Style Guide, 2nd Edition

Web Style Guide, 2nd Edition

Science Toys

Science Toys

Real-time HTML Editor

Real-Time HTML Editor lets you try code and try it out.

cursor.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)

Flash site: Guy bugged by your cursor in his face

Newt Edge

Newt Edge: "This Newt Edge site is created not for the faint-hearted browsers, but more specifically to highly standards compliant browsers, such as Gecko-based browsers. This site is the place for my collections of markup test cases, style sheets demonstrations and coding workarounds. Feel free to browse around and experience my work."

CSS horizontal navigation list

CSS horizontal navigation list: more DHTML

lifaros experimental flash gallery

lifaros experimental flash gallery: actionscript to go...

Eyes on Design - Download free graphics and learn how to create stunning Adobe Photoshop effects

Eyes on Design - Download free graphics and learn how to create stunning Adobe Photoshop effects

Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Secret Worlds: The Universe Within - Interactive Java Tutorial

Molecular Expressions: Zoom in from outer space to our solar system, to earth, to Florida, to a park, and a tree, and the leaf, cell, molecular level.

Google Answers: INTERNET PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH

Google Answers: Internet Psychology Research suggests links, books.

Controlling the Virtual World

Controlling the Virtual World: Governance of online communities.

LambdaMOO (with LambdaMOO Map) An Introduction -

LambdaMoo information includes links to interactive map, etc.

DHTML Examples

DHTML Examples with TryIt.

Internet Archive: Naropa Audio Archives

Internet Archive: Naropa Audio Archives: "The mission...is to enhance appreciation and understanding of post-WWII American literacture and its role in social change and cultural criticism."

You Had Me At Hello: The Art of the Pitch

Notes from the session at
Third Coast International Audio Festival
October 22, 2005

Panel:
Neil Sandel of CBC’s OutFront  Canadians telling their own stories.
Chris Turpin of NPR’s All Things Considered
Julie Snyder of This American Life
Jeremy Skeet of American Public Media

Neil asks: What do you NOT want to hear in a pitch?

Chris: “I’ve got a 52 week series...” or any unwieldy, inappropriate material

Julie: “I write like David Sedaris” or “I want to go and see what happens” – i.e., no plan. And -- sorry -- Julie doesn’t want to go and have coffee with you.

Jeremy: “All Things Considered turned this piece down.” Or “She is not alone. There are many like her.”

Neil: “This is perfect for your show.” Or sucking up.

Neil: Understand: this is a marketing exercise. Hardware customers do not buy a drill bit; they buy a hole in something. Customers do not buy things; they buy benefits. What are you buying?

Chris: Possibilities. The possibility of some great radio. A compelling story. We are also buying some relief for our staff; we run around 100 pieces a week and we have a small staff. We need good independents. We are also buying integrity.

Julie: Same for us. We are glad to see signs of competiency at the pitch, but we do make a point of working with the inexperienced who bring access or some other unique value. We will assign a producer and go out and do it with you.

Jeremy: The BBC has 5 to 10 people, all in LA. We are buying you to beour eyes and ears. We need independents.

Neil: What can people do to make their pitches better?

Julie: Send us a good story. From the first sen6tence. Your resume, your clips, are not required. But Story and Characters especially. Interesting, surprising in some way, in conflict. What is surprising storyline, what is surprising to you. In the pitch, you need to get to it quickly or at least foreshadow it quickly.

Chris Turpin: I want to see clear focus. Show us you have a sense of what to do. It helps if the pitch is nicely written – we take that as a sign that you can do it. A muddled idea, on the other hand, is off-putting.

Jeremy: imagine the lead. How does this fit? What would Ira be saying? Put your mind into what we are thinking. Also check to see if it has been on NPR recently. And don’t bury time facts; if it has to run this weekend we need to know that. Tell us that. Use common sense.

Neil: your process?

Jeremy: we’ll have 40 to 50 pitches in a document, and we meet and go over it on Monday.

Julie: If I like your idea, I try to get the pitch you sent me to a the point where I can in turn pitch it to the 7 other people I work with at our Monday morning meeting. If I think it is good, I will email with you probably a few times to get details. I know what the others will ask. I become your advocate in that meeting. So I am trying to shape it up. If they are going to say your character is unlikeable, or she sounds crazy, or in the end, who cares? I am going to press you for details before I go in so I can respond to that.

Neil: That’s probably the biggest thing, isn’t it? “Why should I care” about this character, this story.

Chris Turpin: We are more informal. I pass it around. I hand it off to the person who is most unlike me in their reactions to things. We are an eclectic program, and I don’t think my sensibility should govern.

Jeremy: In our funding agreement, we commit to 40% of our output coming from independents. 3 of us sit and Yes/No. Then there is a bigger meeting on how to do the story. Yes or Maybe. We will have our questions for you then.

Neil: How much detail is necessary in the pitch?

Julie: A lot of detail is helpful, to me. Anecdotal, narrative detail My pitch to the TAL staff will be anecdotal. I want to know the funny, sad -- the emotional moments help. I don’t mind a long pitch.

Chris: Detail? The amount can vary. It might be ten pages, though I have gone with a 1 line pitch – Iowa – politics and faith – great tape. We want great stories from natural story tellers. Some sense that you understand how you are going to tell it. But really: length of pitch should parallel length of piece. The stakes a lower, too, for a shorter piece. You have a much better chance of actually placing it.

Julie: I want to say something about ambition here. Just because YOU feel overwhelmed by it, don’t NOT pitch it. We might send someone with you, or if it really is clearly too much for you, we would pay you a finders fee and send someone else out to do it, and you would act as their producer.

Jeremy: if you’ve got tape anyway, tell us you’ve got tape. Or you know you’ve got something but you don’t know what it is, can you help me.

Chris: So easy to send files now. It shows us your strengths as a collaborator, that you know how to get good sound.

Neil: Stories set entirely in the past? No opportunity to have scenes unfolding?

Julie: Most of ours are that way.

Chris: Doesn’t matter; if it is a good story, and radio-friendly in the telling, ok.

Jeremy: News is previewed overmuch. The story by the time it unfolds is almost anticlimactic. But you have the ending, and now you can read something into it.

TCIAF: End of the conference.

HLF in Wyndham Chicago Room 1035, originally uploaded by hlfuller.

We are introverts, for goodness sakes! We can't take all this interaction! I am spent; it's been two days only, but oddly draining. I know I'm not like the other children, but it is stressful for me to be among so many. My head plays tricks on me. It is as if I have forgotten how normal people act in large, anonymous communities like this one. Everything I do could be wrong. Of course it isn't. But it could be: that's what tuckers me out.

OrZ

OrZ,
originally uploaded by hlfuller.

Third Coast Audio Festival 1 Ring Zero concert sing along. Bob Edwards is the tall guy in the middle.

Lynx Viewer

Lynx Viewer is a Lynx (text browser) emulator. You can also download a desktop copy of the lynx browser to install on your local machine.

WAI Resources on Introducing Web Accessibility

Introducing Web Accessibility offers strategies, guidelines, resources to make the web accessible to people with disabilities.

IAwiki: WebsitePatterns

IAwiki: WebsitePatterns: a wiki for information architects.

Website Patterns

Website Patterns in WardsWiki has lots of useful ideas for COM 222.

Public Inspection File

KXRJ Public File online -- good idea.

Inventions/Inventors - Imagination - Themepark

Invention at Imagination Theme Park has links and lists of resources.

Pirate Radio: Radio First Termer Wavs

EarthStation1.com - The Radio Sounds Showcase - Radio First Termer Wavs: page of stuff from Dave Rabbit - Vietnam's radio pirate.

EarthStation1.com - aUdIo_WeIrDnEsS! - TV & Radio Broadcast Blooper Audio

EarthStation1.com - aUdIo_WeIrDnEsS! - TV & Radio Broadcast Blooper Audio: includes clips form Armed Forces Radio Vietnam. Their AFVN Propaganda page has more good stuff. They've also got a page of clips from Hanoi Hannah.

Legality in Music Downloading - Is It Illegal

Is it Legal? This About.com page has links to assorted resources including EFF and the RIAA.

The Matrix: MEME ARCHIVE

The Matrix: MEME ARCHIVE: David Sol's mailing.

Technomanifestos: Central

Technomanifestos looks to be a wiki-ike repository of writings and reviews of writings on technology and society.

CHNM Essays

The Center for History and New Media includes this list of essays and web sites useful to people who teach history with digital, online resources.

TRANSPUBLISHING

Ted Nelson's alternative to Creative Commons and GNULicensing is Transpublishing, in which quoted materials are displayed on the quoting page, but actually served from their original host server. Nelson argues that this skirts the issue of copyright because the original sits on a server and is never duplicated. Nelson thinks it's an easy concept.

Four Corners with Beth

Beth Crockford,
originally uploaded by hlfuller.

Well if it's Thursday before classes start, then this Must be the Four Corners Brew Pub and we must be waiting for beers...

Eye Of The Storm

Eye of the Storm is a blog maintained by two reporters from the Sun Herald of Biloxi, Mississippi. They rode out the storm in the newspaper's offices, reporting for work, and keeping this candid account on their own time.

My Office September 7

My office, on Sept 7, 2005,
originally uploaded by hlfuller.

My office on September 7. School will start Monday. How ready am I? Not.

The Center of Light Holistic Healing Center, Sound Healing Therapies, Alchemical & Shamanic Studies Accomodations Page

Centerof Light Holistic Healing Center has stuff on Jeff Volk, sound healing therapies, etc.

What Kind of Social Software Are You?

Remnants of GNE ... the Game NeverEnding...a project of Ludicorp, where designer Ben Cerveny worked, and which went on to develop Flickr.

Podcasting and the New Media

Podcasting and the New Media by Glenn Harlan Reynolds, posted on TCS: Tech Central Station: considers the legal obstacles to podcasting as an alternative to radio.

TCS: Tech Central Station - The Faith-Based Encyclopedia

The Faith-Based Encyclopedia by Robert McHenry critiques the Wiki notion. Specifically, he questions the assumptions underlying claims of reliability -- especially the "quasi-Darwinian process" by which, the makers assert, accuracy is ensured. Instead, he says, readers are confronted with internal inconsistencies they are powerless to resolve.

Test Kitties

Test Kitties,
originally uploaded by hlfuller.

This is a test. If this were an actual emergency, you'd be instructed where

to turn for official napping instructions. Sugar Baby & Harpo choose to

snooze on the red cushion. This is only a test.

Web Worker's Toolbox

Web Worker's Toolbox by Robert Crooks. Glossary; web design and development advice and guides. HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are covered.

Game Studies - Living a Virtual Life: Social Dynamics of Online Gaming

Game Studies - Living a Virtual Life: Social Dynamics of Online Gaming: research into online gaming.

Game Studies 0101: Ryan: Beyond Myth and Metaphor: The Case of Narrative in Digital Media

Game Studies 0101: Ryan: Beyond Myth and Metaphor: The Case of Narrative in Digital Media: interesting article about assumptions we bring to narrative, and alternative points of view.

blipstation : hackney girl

BlipStation shows how video and the stories it tells can be different. This is Hackney Girl; watch it not once but more than once and see how it changes. You need the flash plug in.

Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Katrina Wiki: Internet employed immediately to communicate, connect victims, aid, volunteers.

NerdTV

NerdTV premieres September 6: an hour-long weekly show distributed by PBS exclusively over the Internet under a CC license.

Technorati: Home

Technorati, home of the infamous Top 100 [blogs], is one way to keep tabs on some of what is happening on a part of the web right now.

Jester: The On-Line Joke Recommender

Jester, the joke recommender is a filter that identifies your sense of humor and presents jokes to suit.

UHS: The Longest Journey Hints

Universal Hint System: The Longest Journey will get you over the hump...

Neuromancer

Neuromancer: not sure what this is :o) -- It just popped up some hours after I was scratch-padding NeuroMancer sites.

ID/entity

ID/entity: an exhibition and symposium sponsored by MIT Media Lab. October 2001.

Neuromancer 2.0: A Game

Neuromancer 2.0: this actually looks kind of interesting -- a game that somehow spins off Neuromancer. I haven't had time to explore it yet, but perhaps a student would be interested.

Technolgy in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and William Gibson's Neuromancer

Technolgy in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and William Gibson's Neuromancer is a paper written for a college english lit class by Orlin Damyanov (1996) , then a student at American University in Paris.

Neuromancer entry in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Neuromancer entry in WikiPedia is actually a pretty good stimulator. Includes links to the study guide (below) and the paper on Frankenstein and Neuromancer (above).

Study Guide for William Gibson: Neuromancer (1984)

Study Guide for William Gibson: Neuromancer (1984): a shallow gloss, but not without its value. I wouldn't base a paper on it, but it may kickstart some thinking for some folks.

MoveOn.org: Democracy in Action

MoveOn.org: Democracy in Action: using the net to make a better tomorrow...

Slate Magazine

Slate Magazine: for politics, pop culture and more -- with new media seasoning.

Democracy For America

Democracy for America is the sequel to DeanForAmerica, seeking to channel and redirect the energy of the Dean Internet Contingent.

Kubrick 2001: The space odyssey explained

Kubrick2001, the space odyssey explained? We'll see... Examplke: Flash site.

Exmple Site: Radius

Radius, the restaurant, has a really nice site. See esp. for navigation design, use of type and iconography.

Theory.org.uk trading cards

Theory.org.uk trading cards give you modern notions in a nutshell.

Musipedia: The Parsons Code

Musipedia: The Parsons Code: search for melodies by "melodic contour."

Start-Up in Windows: Who ARE those guys?

Learn about the program cluttering your task manager at start up.

Ask Dave Taylor!

Tech Support and Business Questions? Ask Dave Taylor! Great articles offering practical how-to tips and advice.

Virtual Reality Treatment

Program for Anxiety & Traumatic Stress Studies: "The Program for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Studies is pioneering the use of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy in the treatment of a number of anxiety and stress-related disorders, including fear of flying, fear of storms, fear of heights, fear of bridges, fear of public speaking, and World Trade Center-induced Posttraumatic Stress Disorder."

VisiBone HTML and CSS Products

References from VisiBone include HTML and CSS Cheat-sheets.

Barbara Feldman: Internet Publishing Resources

Barbara Feldman posts resources that help internet publishers, including this page on how to Use Free RSS Feeds on Your Site. See other links there in orange index column to right of her display space.

Total Training presents: The Essentials of Adobe Audition 1.5 with Jason Levine

Total Training presents: The Essentials of Adobe Audition 1.5 with Jason Levine: another little movie with instruction about noise reduction in Audition.

Adobe Audition Tutorials

Adobe Audition Tutorials in little movies you play on the computer.

Sothink Web Page Templates

Created to be used with SoThink's HTML Editor, these Web Page Templates can be downloaded and cracked and used with any web editor. Two pages full of thumbnails -- the second (older of the two) links off the first.

BBC - OpenSource

BBC - OpenSource: "...This site provides information about and links to BBC open source projects. It lists projects developed by the BBC where the source code has been released as open source. The site doesn't cover the many open source projects to which the BBC has contributed, but only those that the BBC has initiated and managed itself..."

MIT OpenCourseWare

MIT's OpenCourseWare home page is a gateway to free course offerings -- but not degrees, dertificates or MIT faculty.

College and University Distance Learning Programs

Inspect online course, degree and other program offerings with Yahoo's list of College and University Distance Learning Programs.

Creative Writing Process

Mr Kirby's Writing Tips on the creative writing process.

Public Radio Fan

Public Radio Fan lists connections to a zillion public radio station web feeds.

Open Source Web Design - Home /\^/\

Open Source Web Design - Home /\^/\

A Pattern Language - Menu of Patterns

A Pattern Language - Menu of Patterns: looks like a glossary of architectural/design principles. I got here from the Bionic Office page at Joel On Software.com.

Jay Eckles - JERSS project documentation

JERSS is a java-based server-side RSS parser.

Dartmouth News Center: RSS

The Dartmouth News Center offers this succinct introduction to RSS feeds, including a long list of aggregators to check out.

Understanding MARC Bibliographic: Machine-Readable Cataloging

Understanding MARC Bibliographic: Machine-Readable Cataloging: a very good introduction to MARC record cataloging system, from LOC.

Tweakheadz

TweakHeadz is a wonderful site for audio newbies -- check his trouble shooting FAQs and other lessons for rank newbies. Clear explanations with pictures --at last, the basics revealed!

RSS Submissions

RSS Submissions: "...A very full, and constantly maintained, list of aggregators that take submissions of feed URLs for their catalogs..."

JazzPlusPlus Midi Sequencer

JazzPlusPlus Midi Sequencer is an excellent open source application for recording and mixing MIDI sequences.

MarcEdit

MARCEdit is Windows freeware for creating and editing MARC records for the library. The MarcEdit Homepage displays links to software downloads, issues, plug-ins, tutorials, etc.

LiveJournal: Theatre of the Mind's Journal

LiveJournal member Theatre of the Mind's Journal is devoted to OTR and points to podcasts of same.

LiveJournl: Podcasting!

Podcasting! is LiveJournal community of shared interest.

FlashFavorite

FlashFavorite is a small utility ($18.95 on 7/7/2005) that lets you browse and save embedded .SWF files from the page you are viewing in your web browser. Use this RegNow Order Form to get it.

Podcast Software - The best in their class!

Podcast Software from the person behind PodCasting101.com.

Turbulence

Turbulence: Commissioned art that exploits the Internet.

Harsmedia :: Found Tapes Exhibition

Harsmedia :: Found Tapes Exhibition: WHo knows what this is?

New American Radio

New American Radio: "Three hundred commissioned and/
or distributed works:
• conceptual new drama
• associational documentary
• language explorations
• sonic meditations
• environmental compositions
• musical explorations
• works that pioneer new
• dimensions in acoustic space
• a primer of radio art-making in America"

Training Materials From The Canadian Society for Independent Radio Production

Training Materials From The Canadian Society for Independent Radio Production

RESOURCE: Audioblog.com

Audioblog.com - Create & Publish Podcasts and Videoblogs

Salt Institute for Documentary Studies - Fall 2004 Radio Pieces

Salt Institute for Documentary Studies - Fall 2004 Student Exhibit includes several pieces for radio.

Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

From the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies Home Page:
"We try to make something extraordinary out of the ordinary. We seek to capture a moment in the lives of people around us, and to do justice to that moment. To do so, we work long hours at honing our craft. Some people say we're intense. We keep trying. Our shooting might be a split-second off. Our words won't quite describe what we mean. The sound editing will be cumbersome. So we go back to work again. As many times as are needed. There are no competitors here. There is no "right" way of doing things. We try to help each other step beyond the merely good. We don't fit into any neat categories. We combine discipline and imagination, breadth and detail. When we succeed in what we're doing, we sit back for a minute view and listen to what we've created."

RSS Workshop - a Tutorial

RSS Workshop is a tutorial on the creation, validation and publication of RSS feeds.

6X6X6 Netscape Color Palette Map

6X6X6 Netscape Color Palette Map: Roll-over color chart includes a small Hex calculator to help web designers specify web-safe color codes.

Two4U's Color page

Two4U's Color page: Files with pages to help web designers specify colors for the web.

How-To: Podcasting - Engadget (vintage)

Read (this vintage page)(How-To: Podcasting (aka How to get Podcasts and also make your own) - Engadget - www.engadget.com) for instructions on how to make your own Podcast.

Podcasting - Wikipedia (vintage)

This article on Podcasting<, from an iteration of Wiki-Pedia dating back to November 2004, includes a brief historical introduction to the medium, links to assorted podcast sources, and connects also to tools and techniques for making or catching podcasts yourself.

TUNING

TUNING looks like a blog with audio. Not a podcast, but a written blog that also offers "MP3 resources."

Colonial Williamsburg: Past to Present: Podcasts

Planning a visit to some historical spot -- say, Colonial Williamsburg? Consider subscribing to its podcast(s) before you go. Bone up on the area before you arrive, or reinforce the things you learned there as you drive away.

Wiki entry on Podcasting

Podcasting

PREP workshop on Quantitative Literacy

The PREP workshop on QL brings together higher education faculty in multiple disciplines to discuss and develop ways to integrate numeracy in college curriculum across the board. Last night's opening keynote by Milo Schield helped focus the conversation we expect to have this week. He began by asserting that to persuade others -- students, colleagues, the Institution -- that QL is important, we have to be clear about what students need to know and be able to do.

He cited four core concepts that their approach considers central:

1. Arithmetic comparisons ("% more than")


2. Ratios (percentages, rates, probability, risk/chance)


3. Comparisons of ratios ("more likely", "more prevalent")


4. Standardizing (comparing apples to apples)

Questions that come up that students should be able to cope with include:

• What is the metric?


• Difference between "percentage change" and "percentage point difference"


• Students should recognize the difference between "the percent of men who are runners" and "the percent of men among runners" -- they should understand which is the pie and which is the slice.


• Students should recognize when a statement containing a statistic or percentage is a prediction and when it is a confirmation of something already known.


• Students whould understand ways in which confounding factors help to create misimpressions. They should learn to spot confounders.

The idea is always to focus on numbers in conext, asking "what are the vulnerabilities of a given statistic?" Sheild suggested that students "take CARE" -- that is -- methodically inspect for Confounding factors, ask how the nyumber was Assembled (what's the data, what's the calculation, how were cases selected), and should understand that they can guard against randomness with a large sample. Finally, students should be alert to measurement Error and/or Bias.

I also learned about something called Simpson's Paradox -- an arithmetic situation in which a comparison can favor one side consistently in "partial" explorations of data, but the other other side can have the best record "overall" -- e.g., two batters -- one has a higher batting average in each of five games, while the other has a higher batting average overall. It happens.

Schield says he thinks the two most important groups to touch with this stuff are people who will go on to touch others -- he focuses on journalists and teachers. Journalism students, and education students or teachers in training.

By September 15 I plan to: develop a module for COM314 that teaches critical use of numbers in news stories. Moreover, I will engineer it so my third year review sessions have this going on, and in that way I can unobstrusively demonstrate both the value of doing this, and a way to do it, to my colleagues in Humanities.

Related Links to check out:

• http://www.Augsberg.edu/StatLit/


• http://www.StatLit.org


• a grammar checker at www.StatLit.org

Netfit

Health and Fitness advice from the Netfit health and fitness team includes stuff about exercise.

Computer-Mediated Communications Networks and the Organizational Life of Schools

Computer-Mediated Communications Networks and the Organizational Life of Schools

I published this article in 1996 in John December's Computer Mediated Communications Magazine. It uses theory presented in Reframing Organizations to explore the potential impact of computer-mediated communications networks on the structural, human resources, symbolic and political dimensions of school life.

CSS: An Introduction

CSS: An Introduction: one of a number of web-dev tutorials.

HOLLYWOOD MATH AND SCIENCE FILM CONSULTING

HOLLYWOOD MATH AND SCIENCE FILM CONSULTING: Gets the numbers and the culture right...

SURFACE.YUGOP.COM || MONO*crafts 3.0

SURFACE.YUGOP.COM || MONO*crafts 3.0: web wizards gallery

Audio Theater - Resource Links

Audio Theater - Resource Links

How to Use Director to Story-Board a Multimedia Production

Alan K Demonstrateshow to use Director as a quick and dirty story boarding tool. Finished movie shows also how to print a story board. However, directions aren't completely consistent with our version (Director 8.5 Studio for Windows). When you call up PRINT menu, choose "Stage" form the drop down to get the option to print markers.

The National Archives of Britain

The National Archives of Britain include many facsimile documents, and access to records useful to genealogical study as well as history.

Leonardo's Manuscripts

The British Library presents interactive replicas of Leonardo's Manuscripts in Flash, supporting magnification, mirror imaging (of Leonardo's mirror script) and an audio commentary on each pair of pages as you turn them up.

Leonardo - BBC Homepage

The BBC offers a site dedicated to Leonardo.

EM411.com - - Electronic Music 411

EM411.com - - Electronic Music 411: Links to makers and samples of electronic music.

Role Theory: Design v. Socialization

Kelly Boudreau's paper discusses EverQuest.

Soundscape Artists Online

Soundscape Artists Online: find links to people who paint with sounds. Jim Metzner is here.

p h o n o g r a p h y . o r g

p h o n o g r a p h y . o r g includes links to sound scapes and portraits by sound artists.

The Times Capsule

The Times Capsule was a Millennium project of the New York Times. This site includes a link to "The Sound Capsule" -- a sample of sounds from the last century, and also to NPR which aired JAson Renier's 2-16-1996 world recording.

SURFACE.YUGOP.COM || MONO*crafts 3.0

SURFACE.YUGOP.COM: Who designs the web? New web art.

SURFACE.YUGOP.COM || MONO*crafts 3.0

SURFACE.YUGOP.COM: This one is the clock. There are others.

New American Radio

New American Radio

the sound artist's resource page

the sound artist's resource page

GigPosters.com

GigPosters.com: Internet as Market hub.

PodPoet

PodPoet: poetry meets the iPod.

PodPoet

PodPoet: where poetry meets the iPod. A poem a week.

Pocketcasting.com - Poetry Podcast Directory

Pocketcasting.com - Poetry Podcast Directory: find poetry on the web.

DRS 2006� - PLS & ASX Files

DRS 2006 - PLS & ASX Files: How do I post MP3 files using PLS or ASK?

Poisoned Arts Radio Theatre

Poisoned Arts Radio theatre -- page has links to their 29th Anniversary Gala production in RAM and also in MP3 (via .pls files??). Also: Freddy's Train of Thought and George Washington Birthday Party.

FeedBurner - Syndication

FeedBurner (beta edition) provides syndication services for Blogger (RSS or Atom) content..

Rube Goldberg Gallery

Rube Goldberg Gallery: Links to poor-quality scans of some of Goldberg's inventions. Posted to this blog to remind me that Rube Goldberg might have a role to play in my Pathway on Invention.

Outline Your Novel in 20 Minutes

Outline Your Novel in 20 Minutes: Alicia Rasley gives you a list of free-writing prompts, and then explains what to do with the output. The page includes links to other writing-tip articles.

Invention and Design

Invention and Design: "This page, and its accompanying resources, are geared towards promoting a better understand the principles of the invention and design process, and include an innovative set of active learning modules that employ a 'hands-on' approach."

Plots

Plots

InterWorld Radio (IWR): a free online news and features service for radio stations

InterWorld Radio (IWR): a free online news and features service for radio stations: find example news features for radio production classes.

Camera Obscura Photography

Camera Obscura Photography: Charles Schwartz operates a camera obscura in Manhattan. His site includes discussions and images of historical camerae obscurae, as well as images created in his own.

Technorati: Tags

The Technorati: Tags page explains the phenomenon of "tagging" web pages, and gives you several dozen examples.

Scribbling Women : Radio Adaptations

Scribbling Women Home Page: Links to radio play adaptations of several important pieces of American Lit by women.

Grand Illusions

Grand Illusions is a website with information and examples of several optical illusions, scientific toys and visual effects. It includes a piece on the camera obscura and ver Meer, under the title The Mystery in the Mirror.

Radio Scripts - Scripts from the the Golden Age of Radio

Radio Scripts - Scripts from the the Golden Age of Radio

Matching screenplays, movie scripts and feature scripts to the film industry

Matching screenplays, movie scripts and feature scripts to the film industry

Giorgio Vasari The Lives of the Artists

Giorgio Vasari The Lives of the Artists: bios of a byunch o' characters including Leonardo and Michaelangelo, by somebody who lived just after they did. For a century or two, this was the definitive, one-stop-shopping source of life story on the subjects.

Can You See Me Now? | About Us

Can You See Me Now? | About Us: chase game in mixed reality

Adelaide Thinkers in Residence - New Media Challenge

Adelaide Thinkers in Residence - New Media Challenge: Find links to Blast Theory.

Playscripts, Inc.

Playscripts, Inc. features excerpts online. To produce, order the full books.