Friday, September 30, 2005

The Seattle Times: Movies: "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress": Literature to the rescue of the spirit

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Project Gutenberg Free eBook Library - Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg Free eBook Library - Project Gutenberg

I just downloaded My Literary Passions by William Dean Howells.

All the ones I have found are txt so no illustrations but nice. One you copy into a word processor or pdf it is easy to search for the snippet you are looking for.

What to do about the Bush Problem

Consortiumnews.com

This article is a must read. Filled with all kinds of stuff the people need to know.

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Bonus Points -- Poetry - Motivation - Self Publishing - Teaching Tips - Small Schools - MIT

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Dr. Samuel Sinner

Dr. Samuel Sinner: "An Introduction to the Poetry and Short Stories of Volga-German Author and Stalin Victim Johann Peter Sinner (Petr Ivanovich Zinner), 1879-1935

By Dr. Samuel D. Sinner

From: Samuel D. Sinner, Autumn Thoughts: Under Ruins and Snow. An Experiment in Ethnic Anthology. Two Centuries of German-Russian Poetry, Short Stories, and Essays. Translations, Commentary, and Original Compositions by Samuel D. Sinner (Fargo, North Dakota: North Dakota State University Libraries, 2003), p. 2-17. Copyright � 2003. Reprinted with permission from the publisher."

Monday, September 26, 2005

National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) - Frequently Asked Questions

National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) - Frequently Asked Questions


"Literacy rates?" not a simple question, but this page gives the information in relatively straight forward manner. Any number without qualification is probably useless.

AB

Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus. Free access.

Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus. Free access.

Check out the daily Match Up vocabulary. Good daily for the classroom.

I am going to post date this so it stays at the top for as long as we want it to. While I like it I see the word match answer page doesn't present the answers also it scores use input correctly???

Thursday, September 22, 2005

The Bellingham Herald | news | | Check It Out: Kathleen Flenniken

The Bellingham Herald | news | | Check It Out: Kathleen Flenniken

Kathleen Flenniken, above, co-editor of Floating Bridge Press and a former engineer and hydrologist on the Hanford Reservation; and Olympia's Timothy Kelly, whose recent collection of poetry, "Toccata & Fugue," was published by Floating Bridge Press, read from their works at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 24, at Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 13th St. Both poets are winners of numerous regional and national awards. The program is the first in the season's series sponsored by Whatcom Poetry Series. For details, call 398-7870 or 733-0693.

I guess I'm not the only one.

Monday, September 19, 2005

Blogger: Download Blogger for Word

Blogger: Download Blogger for Word

This might be useful for Word Users

Sunday, September 18, 2005

OpenHere Network

OpenHere Network

Arts and entertainment look like a "good words" possibility

Friday, September 16, 2005

Creative Commons

Creative Commons

This site promises to be great reading. I can't wait to get a look at the books by McLeod.

Thursday, September 15, 2005

Applying to the Program

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

House Sitters & Sitting from Housecarers .

When (in)curious George got to be POTUS

Wired News: Killer Buzz Flocks to New Browser

Friday, September 09, 2005

Banned literature, censorship

Banned literature, censorship the topics of author's lecture

Iowa State Daily | Online Edition