“Web Site Story”
“Take the famous ballads and duets of West Side Story, insert a dozen mentions of famous social media sites like twitter and facebook, and this is what you get…”
Friday Fun – Munsell Hue Test
Think you’re good with colors?
Give this Munsell Hue Test a Shot: http://www.spectralcolor.com/game/huetest_kiosk
Take a quick study break and try to drag and drop the colors in each row to arrange them by hue order.
Note: the first and last color chips are fixed. Click ”Score Test” when you’re done to see how well you do (then get back to work, after you finish posting the link and your score to your FB account). :)
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Summer Assignment – Infinite Jest
The Challenge: Read Infinite Jest over the summer of 2009
You’ve been meaning to do it for over a decade. Now join endurance bibliophiles from around the web as we tackle and comment upon David Foster Wallace’s masterwork, June 21st to September 22nd. A thousand pages ÷ 93 days = 75 pages a week. No sweat.
The folks over at Infinite Summer (http://www.infinitesummer.org) have set up a site along with social networking tools to provide a support group of sorts to help you get plow through the slew of footnotes in this very wonderful novel by David Foster Wallace. You can follow them on Twitter (#infsum) or join their FaceBook group (see the website for the FB link).
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Friday Fun – Pintando una Canción
Pintando una Canción: Soy Tu Aire – Ambient, Interactive Design Site
Take a quick study break and check out this beautiful ambient site design. http://soytuaire.labuat.com/
It might take a second or two to download but then a “play” icon will appear for you to click to begin.. Once the music starts, move your mouse around like a magic wand and see what happens. :D
Enjoy!
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BBC Blast Studio – An Experiment in Creativity
Blast Studio - A Real Time, Interactive Art Installation
Ready for a quick study break? Take a few minutes to explore the different interactive features of Blast Studio and get creative!
The Blast Studio is a brand new online and real time art installation allowing you to dabble in your own creativity. It’s been designed to give you an opportunity to explore the creative artist within you and add your mark to a unique art installation that will be created together over the next four weeks.
Housed in the Topolski studio at London’s Southbank Centre, this great new initiative lets you take control of four machines. Each machine will provide you with the tools to remotely control how you paint and design this space. Control from a choice of a cool glue gun, paint pellet machine, printer or hanging light strips all directed from your computer.
The Studio is live everyday between 12pm and 12am, from 12th May till 9th June. Watch the action online and get involved at www.blastgetcreative.co.uk
Thanks to Matthew D. for tweeting about this great link.
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Share Books with the Community
Have some books that you think you’d like to share with the community? Consider using Book Crossing as a unique way of recycling your books by “releasing them into the wild” for others to find.
It’s really easy- sign up for an account (takes less than a minute) and then you register the book(s) you want to release. After that, all you have to do is leave the book(s) anywhere – a coffee shop, dorm couch, bench outside the library, laundromat, waiting room, etc. Book Crossing will allow you to track your book’s journey around the world as it passes on from person to person.
Over 772,000 people around the world participate in Book Crossing. Why not give it a try? Maybe if enough of us band together, we can put Gainesville back on the Book Crossing map!
Find out more about Book Crossing here: http://www.bookcrossing.com/
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Mix a Tune with “In Bb 2.0″
Mix your own tune with B-flat 2.0
In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls.
The videos on the page http://www.inbflat.net/can be played simultaneously — the soundtracks will work together, and you can adjust the mix by using the individual volume sliders.
Want to submit a video for this project? Follow the instructions under the “more info” link at the top of the page.
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Time for a Study Break!
Flash Bubble Wrap Game
You’ve been working hard. The semester is ALMOST done! Just a couple more exams to go…
Yep, it’s definitely time for you to stop what you’re doing and take a quick bubblewrap break!
See, wasn’t that nice? Admit it, you feel a little bit better now, don’t you? :)
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Friday Fun – Google Image Labeler
Friday Fun for you – Google Image Labeler, an oldie but a goodie.
Yeah, I know, it’s been around since 2006, but c’mon it’s still a nice way to shift the gears in your brain, put your mind into another mode of thinking, and give yourself a short break from studying.
It’s really easy to play. Google randomly pairs you with a partner who is also online and playing the game. Over a two-minute period, the two of you will see the same set of images and the goal is to type in as many labels as you possibly can to describe each image in front of you.
You get points when one of your labels matches your partner’s label then the program will kick out a new image for you to start describing. After the two minutes are up, you can look at the images you’ve just seen and from where they were pulled.
Set your timer though- this is meant to give your brain a break, not to provide another way to procrastinate from studying. http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/
Hang in there, the semester is almost done. :)
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End of Semester Stress??
Becoming more than a little stressed out as the Spring Semester comes to a close?
Why not give yourself a five minute break with Le Chat Noir? Set the timer though, caging this kitty can quickly become addicting.
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