TheCityFix.com is an online resource for sustainable transport news, advocacy and “best practice” solutions from around the world. It boasts a global network of writers and transport specialists, including engineers, entrepreneurs, urban planners and researchers, who explore environmentally and socially responsible ways to make cities better places to live.
Big Huge Thesaurus Synonyms, antonyms, and rhymes (oh my!) (Also blog post ideas and story plot/logline resources for writers.) This site is based on source data from the Princeton University WordNet database, the Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary, and suggestions from thousands of people on the internet just like you.
Artists’ eBooks is a collaborative project exploring new platforms and formats for writers and artists.
It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.
The Alphabet City series challenges us to rethink ideas central to our lives. In each volume writers and artists address single theme from many perspectives, revealing its processes and possibilities.
Prenotabile subito online arriverà nelle librerie italiane il 27/10/2009 per i tipi Mondadori, 'Carthago. Il romanzo di Annibale e di Scipione l'Africano' di Franco Forte, scrittore, giornalista e direttore responsabile delle riviste "Writers Magazine Italia", "Robot" e "Fiction TV", oltre che vicedirettore del mensile d'informatica "PC World Italia".
Writing a book, short story or research paper is about more than hammering away at the keys until it's done. Research, scrawling fragmentary ideas that don't seem to fit anywhere yet, collecting faded photos from old newspapers, shuffling index cards to find that elusive structure - most writing software is only fired up after much of the hard work is already done. Enter Scrivener: writing software that stays with you from that first, unformed idea all the way through to the first - or even final - draft. Outline and structure your ideas. Take notes. Storyboard your masterpiece using a powerful virtual corkboard. View research while you write. Track themes using keywords. Dynamically combine multiple scenes into a single text just to see how they fit. Scrivener has already been enthusiastically adopted by best-selling novelists, academics, lawyers, script writers and journalists - whatever you write, grow your ideas in style.
Hometta is a collaborative of designers, architects, builders, writers and editors, who have banded together to rethink and improve the way residential architecture is designed and delivered today.
Readability is key to accessibility. It is hard to test, however. This online took evaluates text based on different reading scales and also suggests which complex sentences to take another look at. Great for those writers who commonly write just a little too complex.
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Flashbake automatically embeds ambient information in each version of those files—like the weather, your Twitter status, the last track you listened to—by including it all in each version's commit message.
At what point did we become controlled as blog writers? Where did all the fun of blogging end and all this rubbish begin? Lately I have been looking at a few other blogs on the internet and to be honest all noticed was blogs all writing the same rubbish.
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Some interesting articles on writing from the SFWA.
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il faut descendre de son nuage… crowdsourcing est exactement la même chose.It's one thing to solicit unpaid contributions from photographers and writers in crowdsourcing-type projects; it's another thing entirely to value someone's work at, oh, NOTHING.
The Daily Script, a collection of movie scripts and screenplays to serve as a resource for writers and actors and those who simply enjoy reading movie scripts.
"Many years ago, in the dim era of the late Disco age, a pair of visionary writers, Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, wrote a revelatory series of books known as The Illuminatus Trilogy. (…) Inspired to a madness of creative frenzy by these revelations, your artist seized pencils and drawing pens and embarked on many days and nights of intensive doodling until she had before her the work you can see reproduced here. A Discordian Coloring Book, originally created in 1982, was printed only in a limited edition of 1,000 copies, but now, via the medium of the web it is available for more general viewing. "
When Joichi "Joi" Ito speaks, the digerati listen. The onetime college dropout and nightclub DJ has become one of the Web's leading thinkers and writers on a number of cutting-edge technologies, from online multiplayer games such as World of Warcraft to social networks. The Japanese native is also an entrepreneur, angel investor in companies such as Flickr (later acquired by Yahoo) and Six Apart, and board member at companies such as corporate collaboration firm Socialtext and blog tracker Technorati. Currently, among his seemingly endless list of activities, he's CEO of the nonprofit group Creative Commons, which helps authors, artists, and others easily mark how they'd like their work to be used online.
“Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.”
Famous writers and drinks are inseparable, despite the price some paid for the vice. Ernest Hemingway loved the Mojito, William Faulkner had his mint juleps, and F. Scott Fitzgerald was convinced gin was the way to go (he thought its smell would be undetectable on his breath). Hemingway & Bailey's Bartending Guide delves into the drinking habits of America's top writers to reveal their favorite cocktails. Steve Inskeep talks with author Mark Bailey and illustrator Edward Hemingway -- grandson of the writer -- about their new book. Below are excerpts from the guide, including cocktail recipes, drinking stories and writers' famous passages about imbibing.
Absinthe...the Green Fairy...La Fée Verte....no other drink has the same romantic history - the French Impressionists....Toulouse Lautrec, Degas, Manet, Van Gogh....Paris in the Belle Epoque....the cafes of Montmartre....the muse of writers from Verlaine and Rimbaud to Joyce and Hemingway. Of course, there's a darker side to absinthe as well - no other drink has ever roused the same degree of passionate condemnation, and no other drink has ever been banned outright in the way absinthe was in the years leading up to 1915.
Le monde du spectacle.For visitors, coming to an Olympic city where so many aspects of life — clothing, conversation, food, everything — are staged is only going to cause more confusion about China when the returning waiguoren tell their stories about Beijing. Expats burn when travel writers and foreign journalists make simplistic generalization, but, with half the Beijing story hidden, I’m sure we’ll see a lot more of it. And this will only reinforce the commonly-held belief that Westerners just can’t understand China. (Or the commonly-held belief that China’s all ancient temples and KFCs. Either or!)
New Line Graffiti Promotions (NLGP) is a legally constituted organisation that exists to support graffiti writers in creating a legal framework in which to work and to develop in both a professional and personal context. NLGP also aims to promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of graffiti issues through arts workshops with special reference to wider societal issues around graffiti.