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  1. Blog Excerpts

     Study: People think their emails are twice as funny as they really are
    Sat Jul 08 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    Here's another post from Collision Detection, the ever-fascinating blog authored by science, technology and culture writer Clive Thompson. Clive, who writes for the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Discover, among others, is a refreshingly original and independent thinker. I highly recommend his blog. This entry was posted on 6/25/06:

    Think that email you're sending off to your coworker is pretty funny? According to a recent study (PDF link), the odds are that she'll find it only half as funny as you do.

  2. Word Count

     Satire? No. Funny? Yes.
    Wed Jul 05 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    Paul Slansky writes biting political commentary that's, well, funny. His work appears as political quizzes in the New Yorker and in books like his latest, My Bad: 25 Years of Public Apologies and the Appalling Behavior That Inspired Them. But don't call it satire. "There's not really a word for what I do, which is to point out the reality in things and show what it adds up to," he explains. Paul talked to us about his unique style of political humor.

  3. Blog Du Jour

     Teacher Blogs
    Wed Jul 05 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    In the following blogs, educators write about their challenges, triumphs -- and love for teaching:

    In the Heart of a Teacher is a Student

    Bud the Teacher

    Teaching in the 408

    hipteacher

  4. Dog Eared

     Award Winning Summer
    Mon Jul 03 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    How about checking out these National Book Award winners for your next vacation read?

    Europe Central by William T. Vollmann (2005 winner)

    The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck (2004 winner)

    The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard (2003 winner)

    Three Junes by Julia Glass (2002 winner)

  5. Blog Excerpts

     The Classroom: Collaborative Note Taking
    Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    This entry comes from an excellent blog dedicated to innovative teaching called Tech Savvy Educator, "a practical guide to integrating technology in the classroom." It appeared on 4/24/6.

    I know that I've discussed the possibility of students taking and working on notes in a collaborative effort before, but after a quick search I realized that I hadn't yet blogged about the possibilities of students using technology to help one another focus on key points and note taking skills.

  6. Language Lounge

     Parting Shots
    Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2006
    We open a window in the Lounge this month onto the life to come, as suggested by a few chosen last words, illuminated in the Visual Thesaurus.

  7. Shameless Self Promotion

     Visual Thesaurus Makes Naming and Branding Easy
    Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2006
    Every once in a while, those of us in marketing and advertising are faced with the challenge of naming a company, a product or a service. This usually means sifting through reams of data and then throwing up hundreds of words on the white board until something sticks. The Visual Thesaurus makes that process so much easier by illustrating the meaning and relationship between words in a graphical format. The white board's stupid. Visual Thesaurus is smart. Which are you?

  8. Shameless Self Promotion

     Not Just For Writer's Block
    Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2006
    The Visual Thesaurus isn't just a fun way to avoid writing. Sure you can surf our word maps, discover new meanings and suss out relationships between words. But at some point you gotta put quill to parchment, pen to paper, keyboard to file. You got to get to work. That's where the Visual Thesaurus really comes in handy. With over 145,000 words and related meanings, all connected by a remarkable interactive interface, you'll find the right word, master usage -- and use words more precisely. The best part is the Visual Thesaurus works naturally and intuitively like your brain, not some paper-bound book. So you'll get your writing done. And still have fun.

  9. Word Count

     Songwriting the Message
    Wed Jun 28 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    When we heard that multi-platinum hit songwriter Wayne Cohen was a fan of the Visual Thesaurus we gave him a call, quick. Wayne says "the idea of seeing a whole array of possibilities from one word gets my mind moving." How he writes songs for stars like Jennifer Love Hewitt and soul sensation Curtis Stigers got our mind moving, too. So we asked Wayne a few questions about his songwriting craft:

    VT: What do you write about in your songs?

    Wayne: They're pop songs, so the main topics are love and loss and heartbreak. But I'm also a big fan of "message" songs like the Black Eyed Peas' "Gone Going," a tune about materialism and how people don't appreciate what they have.

  10. Blog Du Jour

     Take the Work Out of Advertising
    Wed Jun 28 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    Writing that catchy slogan getting you down? Can't conjure the name of the doohickey your client's marketing? Will the following sites help? Well, not really, but they're fun to check out:

    The Advertising Slogan Generator

    Name-O-Rama

    Random Surrealism Generator

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