Posts Tagged ‘reading’

Special Agent Productions Designs Entertaining Guides That Explain Technology For Scribd

June 11th, 2010
Special Agent Productions has given life to web leader Scribd’s series of online “How To” presentations, including “Introducing Scribd in HTML5,” which was unveiled last month by Scribd co-founder Jared Friedman at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.

Special Agent Productions Designs Entertaining Guides That Explain Technology for Scribd


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1,000 Words: In Memoriam

June 3rd, 2010

Great images of books from around the world and the Web. A poster created toward the end of the First World War by Charles Buckles Falls. According to the Boston Public library, which has an…1,000 Words: In Memoriam


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The Kleggs And The Cleggs Go Head To Head

May 6th, 2010

The Kleggs and the Cleggs go head to head

Spot the difference between the 2000AD aliens and the Lib Dem leader . . .

Do the Kleggs from 2000AD have anything in common with the Cleggs and their followers?

The Kleggs

1 Alien mercenaries in the comic 2000AD

2 Green, scaly skin

3 Only accept payment in meat

4 Outlawed from Mega-City One

5 Like to eat their foes

6 Citizens commanded by Judge Dredd to kill all Kleggs on sight

7 Klegg ruling class have had an education

8 Briefly had an alliance with Sino-Cit

9 Monolingual: talks in grunts

10 Their battle cry is “Klegg-Hai”

The Cleggs

1 Misty-eyed optimists in the election 2010AD

2 Orange, smooth skin

3 Accept payment only in carbon credits

4 Outlawed from the electoral system

5 Like to offer their foes an amnesty

6 Citizens commanded by Judge Dave to kill all Cleggs on sight

7 Clegg ruling class have had a private education

8 Briefly had an alliance with Gordo-Lab

9 Multilingual: reportedly speaks five languages

10 Their battle cry is “Let’s give it a jolly good go”

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Dorothea Lasky: “Tornado.”

February 28th, 2010

Dorothea Lasky: “Tornado.”I remember he was bent down
Like a whirlpool
I was yelling at him
He looked scared and backed away
Another time, I squinted my eyes to see
And he said I looked ugly
The funny part was when
My sister asked me where he went to
And I just . . .


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Discipline And Punish And William Blake

January 25th, 2010

I remember fondly the newsday that brought the story of a gaggle of unruly teen-age vandals paying for their misuse of Robert Frost’s historic house by giving reluctant audience to the Frost scholar and poet…Discipline and Punish and William Blake


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4 Quick And Easy Design Theory Tips | Creativeoverflow

January 19th, 2010

4 Quick and Easy Design Theory Tips | CreativeoverflowCreativeoverflow is all about Design Inspiration and very useful tutorials. From Photoshop Tutorials to all sorts of advice we share our experiences in the design world.

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Covers Contest: Once More Around The Bases

September 21st, 2009

Let’s face it: summer is almost over. All too soon, the wind will pick up, the leaves will turn, and the days will grow darker. This is the time of year when baseball becomes most…Covers Contest: Once More Around the Bases


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James Schuyler: “Love’S Photograph (Or Father And Son)”

September 19th, 2009

Detected little things: a peach-pit
basket watch-chain charm, an ivory
cross wound with ivory ivy, a natural
cross. The Tatoosh Mountains, opaque
crater lakes, a knickerbockered boy
who, drowned, smiles for a seeming ever
on ice skates on ice-skate-scratched
ice, an enlarged scratched snapshot.
Taken, taken . . .James Schuyler:


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1,000 Words: Daunt Books

September 8th, 2009

Great images of books from around the world and the Web. Inside Daunt Books, the Edwardian bookshop on Marylebone High Street, London. The long oak galleries and beautiful skylights must make it a beautiful place…1,000 Words: Daunt Books


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