Historic Tale Construction Kit is a Web application which you can use to make a tapestry tale. Very neat.
Textism – Image Shows
Textism: Photos: is a collection of small image shows that are simple and clean. I like the way he sets up these shows. Beautiful. He has a photographic “found alphabet” of letters from farm images.
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Dodgeit
dodgeit – free. receive-only. email. no set up. rss. This is like the skiprock idea, but better. You can get your e-mail as an RSS feed.
Abstracting Craft
Malcolm McCullough is the author of Abstracting Craft (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996) a great book on craft in the digital age.
Pansophica
Pansophica is software that searches the web and generates an interactive visualization of the words and the pages.
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War Against Grammar
The War against Grammar is an essay by David Mulroy, but is also the name of a book by Mulroy (Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH, 2003?) in which he documents how grammar was driven out of the curriculum and what can be done about it.
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Interaction Design, Winograd
From Computing Machinery to Interaction Design is an article by Terry Winograd that appeared in Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing. In it he points out how we have gone from computing as calculation to computing as communication and media.
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Graffiti Archaeology
graffiti archaeology is a brilliant site done is Flash that allows you to navigate different moments in the sam wall as painted by graffiti artists. It has a nice timeline feature, and a great way of representing the collage of images that make up a wall along with what has changed over time.
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Automatic Translation
The Language Tools that Google offers now can allow one to surf a site translated. See Video Pool. They have links on their home page that will show you the site translated into other language.
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Slide Shows with Javascript
Dynamic Drive- Image Slide Shows is a set of different ways to do slideshows with Javascript. Some cool examples.
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