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My daughter showed me this incredible painting that she discovered via ‘StumbleUpon.com‘.   It was posted on Flickr.com.  The poster said,
‘This is a movie of a super-cool “painting” hanging in the basement of the British Library, in London. The author has done many such paintings, but this is the best (and all the others are very [...]

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AASL (American Association of School Librarians) published a list of ‘Top 25 Web Sites for Teaching and Learning’.  This list contains an interesting variety of Websites with a brief introduction for each.  The sites were chosen because they ‘foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are [...]

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Not surprisingly, KimKomando.com introduced me to another great resource!  Tabbloid.com EASILY lets you create a ‘pdf’ magazine from your favorite RSS feeds and have it delivered whenever and how often you want it.  Check it out!  www.tabbloid.com

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The September 28th issue of Time magazine had an interesting article entitled, ‘Where Wikipedia Ends’ that although Wikipedia hit the ‘3 million article mark’ in August 2009 its ‘growth line flattened’ in early 2007.  The article looks at some of the possible reasons such as ‘has all knowledge been summarized’, has the site become too [...]

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PC Magazine does it again!  As I’ve been watching the Ravens vs. Steelers I’ve also been looking at the 2009  version of this invaluable list!  I used the opportunity to share some useful Web based resources from the list with my wife.  Now, she thinks I’m a genius!   Shh!  Don’t tell her otherwise.
The article has [...]

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Daneeta Loretta Jackson wrote Six reasons to love the downtown public library for Examiner.com:
“Being homeless and jobless in America’s third world can be a real drag. Finding a place that can help you feel normal and provide much needed resources is important to keeping up morale. The New Orleans Public Library downtown branch is one [...]

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