Fresh Cut Media
Fresh Cut Media A video magazine about art and culture.
An ad hoc collection of websites for English learners/teachers.
Double-Tongued Dictionary A lexicon of fringe English with the latest slang, jargon and new words.
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Labels: dictionary, jargon, learning, slang, words
Daily Python | Monty Python - Pythonline.com For all you MP fans out there. You know who you are...
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Labels: film, humor, montypython
The Periodic Table of Videos - University of Nottingham Cool videos about the periodic table - about as geeky as it gets!!!
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Labels: blog, technology, wii
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Labels: blog, teaching, technology, wii
newsmap A tree structure map of newspaper headlines in real time.
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Labels: art, journalism, media, news
Media Talk - What George Orwell Wrote, 70 Years Later to the Day - NYTimes.com: "The observations were made by George Orwell, whose copious diaries are now being published every day in blog form, exactly 70 years after they were made. The scholars behind the project say they are trying to get more attention for Orwell online and to make him more relevant to a younger generation he would have wanted to speak to."
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Le blog d'Orianne, Olive et Vince en Australie!
The blog of some Supelec exchange students in Australia.
Graffiti Research Lab A gazillion projects; some of questionable taste but all interesting.
Farai Sevenzo The blog of the Zim writer, Farai Sevenzo, whose great insights are worth keeping up with.
Big Think - About: "What is Big Think?
bigthink.com is a new and growing website, currently in its beta version, with a simple mission:
This is a digital age, one in which a wealth of accessible information empowers you, the citizen-consumer. But where is the information coming from? How accurate and unprocessed is it, really? Ask yourself this: how empowered do you feel debating a television screen or a newspaper?
Our task is to move the discussion away from talking heads and talking points, and give it back to you. That is Big Think's mission. In practice, this means that our information is truly interactive. When you log onto our site, you can access hundreds of hours of direct, unfiltered interviews with today's leading thinkers, movers and shakers. You can search them by question or by topic, and, best of all, respond in kind. Upload a video in which you take on Senator Ted Kennedy's views on immigration; post a slideshow of your trip to China that supports David Dollar's assertion that pollution in China is a major threat; or answer with plain old fashioned text. You can respond to the interviewee, respond to a responder or heck, throw your own question or idea into the ring.
Big Think is yours. We are what you think."
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Labels: information, interview, news, podcasts, politics
The Real News: "The Real News Network is a non-profit news and documentary network focused on providing independent and uncompromising journalism."
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Labels: documentary, journalism, news, podcasts
FreeRiceA fun vocabulary game that lets you practise language and donate rice to the hungry at the same time.
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Labels: fun, games, poverty, vocabulary, words
Get A Google Poem: by Leevi Lehto A nice way to play with words and make poetry from even impossibly dry text.
RCRD LBL | Free MP3 Downloads: "RCRD LBL is an online record label releasing exclusive and completely free music from emerging and established artists. In addition to our in-house label, our network includes a roster of independent record labels offering free MP3 downloads and multimedia content"
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Labels: music, music sharing, song, sound
BP GlobalThis is a new Yes Men site just for BP. To be taken with a grain...
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Labels: ecology, environment, humor, yes men
Mr. Picassohead A great drawing site for the Picassos among us.
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The Young Turks: All about The Young Turks: "All about The Young Turks Young Turk (n), 1. Young progressive or insurgent member of an institution, movement, or political party. 2. Young person who rebels against authority or societal expectations. (American Heritage Dictionary)
The Young Turks, the first nationwide liberal talk show and first live, daily internet TV show, is a funny, smart, irreverent and entertaining look at politics, sex, news, pop culture, current affairs and personal stories."
Variety - Slanguage Dictionary: "Almost from its launch in 1905, Variety has used its own, distinctive slanguage in headlines and stories, words like ankle, which refers to someone leaving (say, walking away from) a job, or whammo, which refers to something terrific, especially box office performance. In part it was a device to fit long words into small headlines, but it was also to create a clubby feel among the paper's entertainment industry readers."
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Labels: cinema, dictionary, jargon, television
About Us | StoryCorps: "StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit project whose mission is to honor and celebrate one another%u2019s lives through listening.By recording the stories of our lives with the people we care about, we experience our history, hopes, and humanity. Since 2003, tens of thousands of everyday people have interviewed family and friends through StoryCorps. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to take home and share, and is archived for generations to come at the Library of Congress. Millions listen to our award-winning broadcasts on public radio and the Internet. StoryCorps is the largest oral history project of its kind, creating a growing portrait of who we really are as Americans."
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Labels: history, interview, oral history, sociology, sound, story
weneedgirlfriends.tvweneedgirlfriends.tv“We Need Girlfriends” ("WNG") is an independent online webseries produced by Ragtag Productions. WNG chronicles the adventures of Tom (Patrick Cohen), Henry (Seth Kirschner) and Rod (Evan Bass), recent college graduates struggling to understand the complex world of the New York City dating scene after all three are simultaneously dumped by their long-term college girlfriends.
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Labels: chicks, internet, love, stories, television
Frozen Grand Central at Improv Everywhere: "AboutImprov Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 70 missions involving thousands of undercover agents. The group is based in New York City."
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Labels: improvisation, nyc, performance, sociology, theatre
Hubdub - Home: "Hubdub forecasts how news stories will turn out. Use it to track the stories you care about and compete with others by making predictions yourself."
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Kiva.org - Loans that change livesKiva lets you lend to a specific entrepreneur in the developing world empowering them to lift themselves out of poverty.
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Labels: economics, investment, loan, poverty
Audio Production for Movies, TV | Film / TV - Music Sound Effects, Dialogue, audio for tv, movies, film: "Distributed in 94 countries, Mix is the world's leading magazine for the professional recording and sound production technology industry. Mix covers a wide range of topics including: recording, live sound and production, broadcast production, audio for film and video, and music technology."
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Labels: audiobooks, broadcast media, magazines, sound
American Civil Liberties Union : Close Guantanamo: "JANUARY 11, 2008, is the six-year anniversary of the first arrival of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
On January 11, we are calling on everyone opposed to torture and indefinite detention to WEAR ORANGE to symbolize their sadness and disgust with the national shame that is Guantanamo Bay.
Download the CLOSE GUANTaNAMO Toolkit now to find out how you can organize for January 11 at home, in your office, on campus, in your community, and online."
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Labels: aclu, activism, demonstration, politics, sociology
Exonerated, Freed, and What Happened Then - The New York Times Since 1989, more than 200 prisoners have been exonerated by DNA evidence in teh United States. The NY Times interviewed 137 of them since leaving prison.