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The following provides the links contained in Power Tools for Technical Communication. As we find new links or as these go away, we'll update this page:
Solar Power—Solar Automobiles:
- Matt's Solar Car Page
- Junior Solar Sprint
- NREL Hybrid Electric Vehicle Program
- University of British Columbia, Solar Car Project
- Solar Energy Resources on the Internet
- Mr. Solar Home Page
- Photovoltaic Power Resource Site
- Network Solar Buildings Home page. From the U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
- Solar car page of Samer Abou-Sweid. Mechanical engineering student at the University of Western Ontario
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- How Stuff Works. Provided by Marshall Brain.
- House for American robins and barn swallowsMade available by the U.S. Geological Survey's Northern Prairie Wildlife Center.
- House Wren, Black-capped Chickadee, White-breasted NuthatchMade available by the U.S. Geological Survey's Northern Prairie Wildlife Center.
- Nesting structures or feeders. Made available by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Northern Prairie Wildlife Center.
- History of the Beverly, Massachusetts Photovoltaic Array. From the U.S. Department of Energy.
Much has been learned about the famous red planet from recent Pathfinder and Voyager expeditions. Much more will be learned if the planned human expeditions to Mars happen, as described in some of the following links:
Mars & the Human Exploration of Mars:
- Mars Exploration Program (provided by JPL and NASA)
- Center for Mars Exploration. From NASA's Ames Research Center, Fifth International Conference on Mars
- mars.nlanr.net/mep/themes/future.html
- The Mars Society
- Whole Mars Catalog
- On the Question of the Mars Meteorite
- Exploring Mars: NASA Educational Brief
- Lunar and Planetary Institute. Exploring Mars
- Space Science Adventures. From the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute
- Space Settlement FAQ
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As you are probably all too aware, global warming is the term for the scary theory that human CO2- and methane-producing activities have led and are leading to small increases in average global temperature, which may in turn have enormous consequences for our lives here on the planet— namely, drought, elevated sea levels, flooding, higher temperatures, reduced agriculture, increased tropical storm activity, and increased insect problems. You can read both sides of this issue at these World Wide Web sites:
Global Warming:
- Cooler Heads Coalition or the National Consumer Coalition's Global Warming Information Page: http://www.globalwarming.org/index.htm. See its http://www.globalwarming.org/science/ page.
- CNN's "Our Changing Climate" special: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1997/global.warming/
- Instant Expert's Guide to Global Warming. http://www.heartland.org/pdf/ieguide.pdf (From the Heartland Institute)
- EPA Global Warming Site: http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/
- Understanding Global Climate Change. http://www.facsnet.org/report_tools/climate.html. From FACsNET
- EDF's Global & Regional Air Page http://www.edf.org/programs/GRAP/#warming
- WWF Climate Change Campaign Page: http://www.panda.org/climate/climate.htm
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Computers have come a long way in their ability to process and respond to normal human speech. But far enough? The recommendation report at the end of this chapter considers that question. And for more information on this emerging technology, see these websites:
Voice-Recognition Technologies:
- Beyond Recognition, to Understanding. MIT's Victor Zue. http://www.speechtechmag.com/st15/zue.htm
- Speech Technology Magazine On-Line http://www.speechtechmag.com/index.htm
- Kimberly Patch & Eric Smalley. Speech recognition makes some noise. February 2, 1998 (Vol. 20, Issue 5) http://www.idg.net/new_docids/speech/heres/recognition/understand/computer/overview/
promise/anyway/new_docid_9-63999.html- Victor Zue, "Talking with Your Computer" http://www.scientificamerican.com/1999/0899issue/0899zue.html
- MIT's Spoken Language Systems. http://www.sls.lcs.mit.edu/sls/publications/index.html theses and papers
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Some believe that nanotechnology—manufacturing at the molecular level— will be the "next industrial revolution" and totally change our way of life. The following links take you to some highly visionary stuff related to this topic:
Nanotechnology—Molecular Circuitry:
- NanoTechnology Magazine. http://nanozine.com
- Ralph C. Merkle's Nanotechnology site at Xerox. "Nanotechnlogy." http://nano.xerox.com/nanotech
- IBM Corporation. "Small wonders: Positioning progress, atom by atom." http://www.ibm.com/stories/1997/12/sm5.html
- Brilliant New World - HP Labs at the Forefront of Creating Nanotechnology: http://www.hp.com/ghp/features/nano
- C.P. Collier, et al., "Electronically Configurable Molecular-Based Logic Gates," Science, 16 July 1999. Hewlett-Packard, "Molecules That Compute":
- http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/ molecules_that_compute.html
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Recycling is not necessarily the ecological sacred cow that you may think it is. There's plenty of opposition to it as some of the following web pages indicate. Still, it is interesting to review just how well recycling is working and how much it has worked its way into our societal habits. Here are some web sites that address these issue:
Recycling:
- EPA Recycling site: http://www.epa.gov/wastewise/recyclin.htm Links to Recycling sites
- http://www.epa.gov/wastewise/other.htm
- Recycling Is Not Garbage, Richard A. Denison and John F. Ruston http://www.techreview.com/articles/oct97/recycle.html
- Recycling isn't Garbage. http://www.edf.org/issues/NYTrecycle.html
- Assessing the Full Costs and Benefits of Curbside Recycling. John F. Ruston, Richard A. Denison, http://www.edf.org/pubs/Reports/advrec.html
- "Environmental Life-Cycle Comparisons of Recycling, Landfilling and Incineration," from the Annual Review of Energy and the Environment http://www.edf.org/AboutEDF/denison.pdf
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On the World Wide Web, you'll find plenty of interesting (and on-the-fringe) information about what's inside our heads as well as research on sleep and dreams:
Brain, Sleep, and Dream Research:
- Sleep from A to Zzz: ThinkQuest website entry by an international team of three high school students: http://library.advanced.org/25553/
- Archives Media: Sleep & Sleep Disorders: http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/mediarc.html
- The Art & Science of Dreams: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/science_of_dreams/13572
- International Institute for Dream Research: http://www.dreamresearch.ca
- Circadian Rhythms from About.com: http://sleepdisorders.about.com/health/diseases/ sleepdisorders/msubcircadian.htm
- University of Virginia. Center for Biological Timing: http://www.cbt.virginia.edu
- Sleep Disorder & Melantonin. from About.com: http://sleepdisorders.about.com/health/diseases/ sleepdisorders/msubmelatonin.htm
- Neurosciences. from About.com: http://neuroscience.about.com/
- Harvard Medical School. The Whole Brain Atlas: http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html
- Paul Pietsch, Indiana University. "ShuffleBrain." http://www.indiana.edu/~pietsch/home.html
- Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology. "Debunking the Digital Brain." http://www.sciam.com/explorations/020397brain/ 020397explorations.html
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Speaking of lists, consider the ongoing international effort to list the more than 80,000 human genes and interpret their function:
Human Genome Project:
- National Institutes of Health. National Human Genome Research Institute: http://www.nhgri.nih.gov
- Stanford Human Genome Center: http://www-shgc.stanford.edu
- UK Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre: http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
- Human Genome Project Information. U.S. Department of Energy: http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome
- About.com. Genetics (see the link for Human Genome Projects): http://genetics.about.com/education/scilife/genetics
- University of Kansas Medical Center. Ethical, Legal, Social, Implications of Human Genome Project: http://www.kumc.edu/gec/prof/geneelsi.html
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Some are warning us that the weather patterns in the Pacific known as El Niño and La Niña will cause major disruptions in the Western Hemisphere, particularly the U.S. southwest.
El Niño and La Niña:
- Matt Rosenberg's Geography Links: http://geography.about.com/education/scilife/geography/msubnino.htm
- U.S. Geological Survey. Effects of El Niño on Streamflow, Lake Level, and Landslide Potential http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/changes/natural/elnino/
- U.S. Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). El Niño Theme Page. http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/nino-home.html
- NOAA. La Niña Page. http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/lanina.html
- PBS Online. Tracking El Niño. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elnino/textindex.html
- The Why Files. El Niño Rules. http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/050el_nino/index.html
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On the World Wide Web, you'll find plenty of fine, beautifully illustrated information about earthquakes and plate tectonics:
Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics:
- About.com. Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics: http://geography.about.com/education/geography/ msub27.htm
- University of Nevada–Reno. "About Earthquakes": http://www.seismo.unr.edu/htdocs/abouteq.html
- Rosanna L. Hamilton. "Earth's Interior & Plate Tectonics": http://www.hawastsoc.org/solar/eng/earthint.htm
- Donald L. Blanchard. "ABC's of Plate Tectonics": http://webspinners.com/dlblanc/tectonic/ptABCs.shtml
- U.S. Geological Survey. "This Dynamic Earth": http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html
- Hawaii Natural History Association. "Plate Tectonics": http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/plate_tectonics/introduction.html
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However hard they are to define, fractals are graphics after all. Here are some websites that focus on the nature and applications of fractals:
Fractals—The Ultimate Graphics:
- Fractal Microscope. Interactive tool designed by the Education Group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications for exploring the Mandelbrot set and other fractal patterns: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Edu/Fractal/Fractal_Home.html
- About.com—Fractal Design & Metacreations. Judy Litt, guide: http://graphicdesign.about.com/arts/graphicdesign/ msubfd.htm
- Noel Giffin. Fractint: fractal software and tutorials: http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/fractint.html
- Fractals As Art. Melisa Binde: http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~binde/fractals/index.html
- Yahoo! Fractals: http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Visual_Arts/ Computer_Generated/Fractals/
- Chaos and Fractals. Joakim Linde: http://www.dd.chalmers.se/~gu94joli/caf.html
- Fractal Bibliography: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Edu/Fractal/Fbiblio.html
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On the web, you'll find all the information you need to light your house using electricity that you generate directly from the sun:
Photovoltaics—Electricity from the Sun:
- Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF): non-profit organization promoting solar rural electrification in developing countries: http://www.self.org
- Mark Fitzgerald, Science Communications, Inc., PV Power Resource Site: http://www.pvpower.com
- Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (DOE). Million Solar Roofs Project: http://www.eren.doe.gov/millionroofs
- Home Power: Hands-On Journal of Home-Made Power: http://www.homepower.com
- U.S. Department of Energy. National Center for Photovoltaics: http://www.nrel.gov/ncpv
- Mr. Solar. Design Your Preferred Energy System: http://www.sni.net/solar
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If you wanted to send an inquiry from the U.S. to an expert living in Japan, India, Brazil, or Saudi Arabia, how would you write that inquiry? Would you modify the communication in consideration of the different culture and communication style of the recipient? An interesting and growing body of knowledge is available on international communication styles:
Communication Styles—International Business:
- National Y Forum on People's Differences. http://www.yforum.com/index.html
- Career Magazine's Focus on Diversity. http://www.careermag.com/db/cmag_diversity_index
- Café Progressive. Many links on diversity, multiculturalism. http://www.cafeprogressive.com
- The United States vs. The World: A Theoretical Look at Cultural Imperialism http://www.utexas.edu/ftp/depts/eems/cultimp.387._.html
- About.com Global Business page. International etiquette, business cultures, and country-by-country links: http://globalbusiness.about.com/finance/globalbusiness
- careers.wsj.com—provided by the Wall Street Interactive Edition, links under Working Globally. http://careers.wsj.com
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The World Wide Web is loaded with interesting information about the contemporary and evolving workplace, trends in employment, projections about upcoming occupations—not to mention job-hunting, resume-writing, and interviewing tips:
Employment Trends and Projections:
- Bureau of Labor Statistics. Go to Publications & Research Papers and look at the Occupational Outlook publications: http://www.bls.gov
- About.com Telecommuting Guide. How about working at home? http://telecommuting.miningco.com/business/business/telecommuting/mbody.htm
- Thirty-Hour Work Week. http://lamar.colostate.edu/~terrel
- Affluenza—Epidemic of Overconsumption. A National Public Radio special. http://www.pbs.org/kcts/affluenza
- Vault.com—about today's workplace including information about schmoozing, office politics, and other such. http://www.vaultreports.com
- http://careers.wsj.com—provided by the Wall Street Interactive Edition, interesting articles on careers, jobs, job-hunting and interviewing advice, trends.
- A Career and Job-Hunting Resources Guide, from Quintessential Careers: http://www.quintcareers.com
- JobWeb from the National Association of Colleges and Employers:http://www.jobweb.org/
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The advance of this important technology, like many others mentioned in this book, depends on technical reports—information about new techniques and materials that squeeze every last watt out of even the mildest breeze:
Wind Energy:
- American Association for Wind Engineering: http://www.civil.buffalo.edu/aawe
- American Wind Energy Association: http://www.awea.org
- DOE Wind Energy Program: http://www.eren.doe.gov/wind
- Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology: http://solstice.crest.org/index.shtml
- About.com. Wind Energy—General: http://energyindustry.about.com/business/energyindustry/msub21.htm Sandia National Laboratories: Wind Energy Technology:
- http://www.sandia.gov/Renewable_Energy/wind_energy
- Guided Tour of Wind Energy. From the Danish Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association: http://www.windpower.dk/tour
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By the time you read this book, we will be well past January 1, 2000, and we'll have seen just how many of the worst Y2K fears were realized. Even though the event is over now, it's still a fascinating topic—it illustrates our society's deep dependence on computers: The Y2K Problem Links:
Year 2000 Problem:
- http://y2k2000.org/defining.htm
- General Background on Y2K: from Carol E. Brown (brownc@bus.orst.edu), Oregon State University, College of Business. http://www.bus.orst.edu/faculty/brownc/Year2000/background.htm Basics of Y2K—from the Canadian Broadcasting System.
- http://www.cbn.org/newsstand/y2k/basics.asp
- State of Oregon Department of Human Resources. Overview of the Year 2000 Problem. http://dhrinfo.hr.state.or.us/intranet/tands/projects/Y2000/Y2K_Overview.htm#Overview
- Eight Myths about the Millenium Bug—from CNET. http://www.cnet.com/Content/Features/Dlife/Millbug
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The Internet and its gracious facilitator, the World Wide Web, have brought on a new era in information access. These new tools have added to the way we access information—and complicated matters considerably. Here are some links that explore the meaning of hypertext and take stock of the impact of the Internet and the Web:
Hypertext, the Internet, the World Wide Web:
- "Birth of the Net." Michael Lerner. http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/01birth.htm
- PBS. "Life on the Internet." http://www.pbs.org/internet
- About.com. "Internet for Beginners." http://netforbeginners.about.com/internet/netforbeginners/msubhistory.htm
- Web Developer's Virtual Library: "History of the Internet and the World Wide Web: http://WWW.Stars.com/Internet/History/
- Webmonkey Guides. "Who Runs the Internet." http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/guides/net/runs.html
- Vannevar Bush. "As We May Think." A pioneer whose ideas led to hypertext. Originally published in The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945. http://www.isg.sfu.ca/~duchier/misc/vbush/
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Some believe that one day software applications using some form of artificial intelligence will be able to proofread, copyedit, and even do high-level revision on our written work. Then, all the writing teachers and editors will be replaced by software! Take a look at the some of the following links to see how soon that will be:
Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks:
- Neural Network Basics. Z Solutions.
- PSY371: Artificial Intelligence Tutorial Review. Eyal Reingold and Johnathan Nightingale.
- Neural Nets. Kevin Gurney, University of Sheffield, UK (introductory book available online).
- Artificial Intelligence. Denis Susac.
- Artificial Neural Networks Technology. Tutorial from U.S. Department of Defense, Data and Analysis Center for Software.
- Debunking the Digital Brain. A Scientific American article by Tim Beardsley.
- The Emergence of Intelligence. A Scientific American (271(4):100-107, October 1994R) by William H. Calvin.
- About AI. From the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
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One of the latest theories from academia is that you must construct a mental replica of your audience to write effectively—essentially, mental cloning! (For further details on this interesting idea, read this chapter):
Genetic Engineering, Gene Therapy, and Cloning:
- About.com. Genetics®Cloning Human, Genetic Engineering, and Gene Therapy: http://genetics.about.com/education/genetics/msubch.htm
- Ethical Aspects of Human Cloning, from ReligiousToleration.org: http://www.religioustolerance.org/cloning.htm
- New Scientist. Cloning Special Report: http://www.nsplus.com/nsplus/insight/clone/ clonelinks.html
- Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. Cloning: http://www.phrma.org/genomics/cloning
- Microarrays and "DNA Chips": http://www.phrma.org/bioinformatics/microarrays.html
- Yahoo Full Coverage: Cloning: http://headlines.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/Tech/Cloning
- Human Cloning Foundation: http://www.humancloning.org
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The World Wide Web is loaded with interesting information about the contemporary and evolving workplace, trends in employment, projections about upcoming occupations—not to mention job-hunting, resume-writing, and interviewing tips:
Employment Trends and Projections:
- Bureau of Labor Statistics. Go to Publications & Research Papers and look at the Occupational Outlook publications: http://www.bls.gov
- About.com Telecommuting Guide. How about working at home? http://telecommuting.miningco.com/business/business/telecommuting/mbody.htm
- Thirty-Hour Work Week. http://lamar.colostate.edu/~terrel
- Affluenza—Epidemic of Overconsumption. A National Public Radio special. http://www.pbs.org/kcts/affluenza
- Vault.com—about today's workplace including information about schmoozing, office politics, and other such. http://www.vaultreports.com
- http://careers.wsj.com—provided by the Wall Street Interactive Edition, interesting articles on careers, jobs, job-hunting and interviewing advice, trends.
- A Career and Job-Hunting Resources Guide, from Quintessential Careers: http://www.quintcareers.com
- JobWeb from the National Association of Colleges and Employers: http://www.jobweb.org/
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Next time you sight a UFO, be sure and document it using a proper citation method such as one of the documentation styles presented in this chapter:
Extraterrestrial Intelligence & UFOs:
- About.com. UFOs/Aliens: http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/mbody.htm
- Beginner's Guide to UFOs & Aliens: http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/bldata/blguidea.htm
- Gregg Easterbrook. "Are We Alone?" Atlantic Monthly. (August 1988): http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/88aug/easterbr.htm
- Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at U.C. Berkeley: http://albert.ssl.berkeley.edu/opticalseti/
- Discovery Channel Online. "Alien Search Diary": http://www.discovery.com/news/setidiary/setidiary.html
- Carl Sagan. "The Quest for Extraterrestrial Intelligence." (Cosmic Search Vol. 1 No. 2): http://204.240.36.10/radobs/vol1no2/sagan.htm
- The Active Mind's SETI website: http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/SETI/index.html
- Area 51: www.ipcress.com/area51/
- Journal of Scientific Exploration: research-style articles on "fringe science": http://www.jse.com/
- CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90: http://www.odci.gov/csi/studies/97unclas/ufo.html
- US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/facts/HTML/FS-017-HQ.html
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Someday, virtual-reality software may enable you to practice teamwork in an environment where you are the only real human. Here are some precursors:
Virtual Reality:
- MIT's Virtual Worlds Project. http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/vworlds/vworlds.html
- Virtual Reality Society: http://www.vrs.org.uk/
- The VRML Repository: http://www.web3d.org/vrml/vrml.htm
- About.com: Focus on Web3D: http://web3d.about.com/internet/devprog/web3d
- Alexander Chislenko on enhanced reality. http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/EnhancedReality.html
- NCSA's Science for the Millenium. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/Expo/
- VRMLSite Magazine: 3D on the Internet: http://www.vrmlsite.com/
- Proteinman's Top Ten VRML2.0 Worlds: http://www.virtpark.com/theme/proteinman/
- University of Michigan Virtual Reality Laboratory: "Virtual Reality: A Short Introduction":http://www-VRL.umich.edu/intro/
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Thinking about time travel and faster-than-speed-of-light transportation? You'll need plenty of abbreviations, symbols, and numbers.
Time Travel and Superluminal Motion:
- NOVA Online: Time Travel http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/time/index.html
- Superluminal Motion: Fact or Fiction? http://lal.cs.byu.edu/ketav/issue_3.2/Lumin/lumin.html
- Time Travel homepage: http://freespace.virgin.net/steve.preston/Time.html
- John Gribbin. "Time Travel for Beginners." http://epunix.biols.susx.ac.uk/home/John_Gribbin/Time_Travel.html
- Time Travel Research Center: http://www.time-travel.com
- Worm-Hole Network: http://worm-hole.net
- Jurgen Vannoppen. "Travelling through time…": from a first-year college student at Katholic University of Louvain (Belgium): http://gallery.uunet.be/vannoppen/science1.htm
- Einstein: Image & Impact. From the American Institute of Physics: http://www.aip.org/history/einstein
- NOVA Online. "Einstein Revealed": http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein
- Cambridge Relativity. "Relativity and Cosmology": http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/einlinks.htm
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The similarities between the various marks of punctuation and computer viruses are strictly accidental. However, the following links enable you to explore the possibilities:
Computer Viruses:
- Symantec AntiVirus Research Center. http://www.symantec.com/avcenter
- About.com's Antivirus Software page: http://antivirus.about.com/compute/software/antivirus/ msub7.htm
- IBM's Understanding Viruses page: http://www.av.ibm.com/InsideTheLab/Bookshelf/ Understanding
- CNET's virus page: http://www.cnet.com/Content/Features/Howto/Virus
- Computer Virus Myths: http://kumite.com/myths
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Someday, kids will learn grammar and usage strictly through animated games. Sesame Street got it started with "Lolly Lolly Adverb," but there's much left to do. Here are some good links to get your grammar-animation career started:
Computer Animation – Game Design:
- Anna McMillan and Emily Hobson, Animation Tutorial: http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/multimedia/tutorials/tutorial1.html
- Dyske Suematsu. Introduction to After Effects: http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/99/14/ index2a.html?tw=multimedia
- Animation Learner's Site, provided by a former Disney animator: http://come.to/animate
- Larry's Toon Institute. From Animation World Network: http://www.awn.com/tooninstitute/lessonplan/lesson.htm
- University of British Columbia. Imager Computer Graphics Laboratory: take a look at the Imager gallery in particular! http://www.cs.ubc.ca/nest/imager
- About.com. Interactive Fiction: http://interactfiction.about.com
- Chris Crawford. The Art of Computer Game Design: http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/game-book/Coverpage.html
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Finding a topic, narrowing it, and then outlining has a lot of similarities to planting and tending a garden.
Alternative Agriculture, Organic Gardening, Hydroponics, Composting:
- Homegrown Hydroponics. A commercial venture eager to tell you all about hydroponics: http://www.hydroponics.com
- How to Build an 11-Plant Hydroponic Garden. From Pipe Dreams Hydroponics: http://www.hydroponicsonline.com/11plant1.htm
- Adam & Alex's Excellent Hydroponics Project: http://members.tripod.com/~HydroProject/home3.html
- Virginia Hydroponics, Inc.—Teacher resource Center: http://www.hydro4u.com/resource_center/resource_center.htm
- Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN). From North Carolina State University: http://www.sare.org/san
- Compost Resource Page: http://www.oldgrowth.org/compost/home.html
- Organic Gardens. Steve Starr's personal organic gardening web site: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/3588
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Need some structure and continuity in your universe? These websites may provide just the grand unifying theory you need:
Big Bangs, Black Holes, Superstrings:
- Super-String Theory in Simple Terms http://freespace.virgin.net/steve.preston/super-strings.html
- Black Hole Containment Device (for capturing huge amounts of energy—so they say): http://freespace.virgin.net/steve.preston/diagram.html
- Cambridge Univ. Relativity. Black Holes http://www.amtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/bh_home.html
- Cambridge Univ. Relativity: Cosmic Strings & Other Defects:
- http://www.amtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/cs_home.html
- Hitchhikers's Guide to Black Holes: http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/workx/blackholes/ index3.html
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Particle Data Group: http://ParticleAdventure.org
- The Search for Black Holes: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~spac250/steve
- Superstrings Home Page: http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~jpierre/strings
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As legend has it, the Plain English movement was started in the 1970s in England by Chrissie Maher after the death of two elderly ladies which was somehow intertwined with their inability to understand a bureaucratese-laden application form for housing benefits.
Plain English Movement:
- Plain English Campaign in England http://www.plainenglish.co.uk — from the founders of the movement.
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Plain English Handbook—a whole online handbook on how to write in plain English! http://www.sec.gov/consumer/plaine.htm
- Word Centre, one of many companies offering plain-English services. This one lists savings from using plain English. http://www.wordcentre.co.uk/business.htm
- Plain Language Action Network, part of the National Partnership for Reinventing Government. http://www.plainlanguage.gov
- Plain Train. Guidelines developed by the U.S. Veterans Benefits Administration: http://www.web.net/~plain/PlainTrain
- Rules for Regulation Writers. Developed by Canada's National Literacy Secretariat: http://www.blm.gov/nhp/NPR/tutorial/regwr_01.html
- John Kimble. "Answering the Critics of Plain Language." http://www.plainlanguage.gov/library/kimble.htm
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