Food for Thought - March 2005
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Webgrammar's Food for Thought - ISSN: 1530-034X
Editor and Publisher: Judy Vorfeld
mailto:judyvorfeld@webgrammar.com URL: http://www.webgrammar.com
MARCH 2005
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CONTENTS
Note from Judy
Windows Keystroke & Tips - Calendar
Readers' Favorite
Did you Know - How to Split an Infinitive
Recommendations
ARTS
EDUCATION
GRAMMAR
HISTORY
REFERENCE
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
WRITING/JOURNALISM
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NOTE FROM JUDY
1. I hope you've enjoyed the lovely month of March. And that you
enjoy this issue. I've found some fun sites for you. If you want
to have me list a favorite site in my next issue of Webgrammar's
Food for Thought, send me an email with the URL!
mailto:judyvorfeld@webgrammar.com
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WINDOWS KEYSTROKES & TIPS - WINDOWS CALENDAR
Need to get to a calendar in a hurry? Or adjust the date or time?
Look at the lower right portion of your screen. See the numbers
indicating the time? Run your mouse over the numbers to see today's
date. Double click on the numbers to open up your Windows Calendar.
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-- READERS' FAVORITES --
http://www.ninetydegreesmedia.com/angleonwriting/
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DID YOU KNOW - HOW TO SPLIT AN INFINITIVE
Q. What's an infinitive, and how do we split one (accidentally, of
course!)?
A. Diana Hacker says, in A Writer's Reference, that an infinitive
consists of "to" plus a verb...like to think, to go, to breathe,
to worry. When you place a modifier between the "to" and the verb,
you're splitting an infinitive. Is it a crime to do so? No, but it
is awkward. Hacker says that if it's obviously awkward you should
revise it. Sometimes it's more natural when it's split. But you
should totally avoid splitting an infinitive in formal writing.
Her example: Original says, "Patients should try to if possible
avoid going up and down stairs." Revised, it says, "If possible,
patients should try to avoid going up and down stairs."
Remember, the key to identifying an infinitive is that it begins
with "to" followed by a verb.
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RECOMMENDATIONS
ARTS
ESERVER POETRY COLLECTION
http://eserver.org/poetry/
ARTISTS: MAINLY VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN
Include painters, illustrators, sculptors, architects and a
few other crafts workers.
http://www.speel.demon.co.uk/listart.htm
GONE WITH THE WIND ONLINE EXHIBIT
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/online/gwtw/
MUSIC IN AUSTRALIA
Online service developed by the National Library of Australia
and the National Film and Sound Archive. MusicAustralia helps
you to find, access and navigate a rich store of information on
Australian music, musicians, organizations and services from a
single access point.
http://www.musicaustralia.org/
THE DORIS ULMANN PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION
Provides access to 1800 of approximately 12,000 images from the
Ulmann Photograph Collection. Casts a wide net across a number
of related fields throughout the humanities: social and cultural
history, women's studies, African-American studies, ethnography,
and the history of photography. Ulmann's photographs represent
important primary source material for historical and ethnographic
studies of Appalachian and Gullah culture as well the subject of
folk arts and craft traditions.
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/catdept/digcol/ulmann/index.html
EDUCATION
CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Comprised of scholars and educators who use the findings of linguistics
and related sciences in identifying and addressing language-related
problems. Interesting to educators and policy-makers: it contains a
number of very useful resources, lesson plans, and other materials. The
topic areas include bilingual education, language testing, school
reform, and refugee concerns.
http://www.cal.org/
DIGITAL HISTORY
All about using new technologies to enhance teaching and research.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
PRE-ALGEBRA PROJECTS
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/math/prealg/prealg03/webquest/index.php4/na
GO-MATH PRE-ALGEBRA
http://www.gomath.com/algebra.html
BEYOND THE FIRE: TEEN EXPERIENCES OF WAR
http://www.itvs.org/beyondthefire/
GRAMMAR
COMMON ERRORS IN ENGLISH: PROFESSOR PAUL BRIANS' SITE
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
DAILY GRAMMAR
A great way to check grammar knowledge. Quizzes take four minutes.
http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.shtml
GRAMMAR CENTRAL
Links to both a teacher's notes on grammar lessons, as well as copies
of the lessons themselves. Be sure to check the index, which is an
alphabetized list of definitions.
http://www.longview.k12.wa.us/mmhs/wyatt/homework/grammar/gramm.html
MRS. BLUEZETTE'S GRAMMAR CORNER
"A PBS mind in an MTV world." Delightful, highly educational articles
by a wonderful English language wizard (umm...wizette).
http://www.newsblues.com/grammar.htm
PROFESSOR CHARLES DARLING'S GRAMMAR SITE
Outstanding to use as a quick reference for your grammar questions.
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
GREEK GRAMMAR ON THE WEB
http://perswww.kuleuven.ac.be/~u0013314/greekg.htm
THE ENGLISH MAZE
A web-based learning system for individuals and schools worldwide.
Students can improve their pronunciation, speaking, reading, listening,
and writing skills. The site contains hundreds of hours of material,
much of which is free.
www.englishmaze.com
HISTORY
CIVIL WAR MAPS, 1861 -1865
Brings together materials from three premier collections: the
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, the Virginia
Historical Society, and the Library of Virginia.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/
THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851
http://www.speel.demon.co.uk/other/grtexhib.htm
INTERACTIVE KOREAN WAR TIMELINE
Interactive executables not in a series format. They are created
as stand-alone multimedia entertainment on a variety of subjects.
http://www.usni.org/freestuff/software.htm
REFERENCES
BEST FISH GUIDE
Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand.
http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/bestfishguide/index.asp
CANOO
Online reference for German. The grammar complements dictionaries
and glossaries already available at the web site, and provides a
useful resource for speakers and learners of German. Over 1,500
German grammar pages are accessible in English and German. Canoo is
a dedicated authoring environment for lexicographers ensures a high
quality of data. The base dictionary was developed over more than 10
years at the University of Basel under the Direction of Prof. Dr.
Marc Domenig, now CEO of Canoo Engineering AG.
http://www.canoo.net/index_en.html
THE CURIAE PROJECT
Law students, lawyers, and the general public will find this project,
based at Yale University's Law School, to be immensely helpful. Visitors
can view a list of featured arguments and briefs which rotate on the
site's homepage on a regular basis. The project has also created a
ranking index that ranks the most commonly cited Supreme Court decisions.
http://curiae.law.yale.edu/
DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY ONLINE
Meet people who played an important role in the formation of what is now
Canada. This first phase presents persons who died between the years 1000
and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years.
http://www.biographi.ca/EN/index.html
GENERAL ACCESSIBLE TRAVEL INFORMATION
Annotated guide to websites offering information for travelers with
disabilities.
http://gatorsport.phhp.ufl.edu/travel_general.html
LAND TENURE CENTER
Established in 1962, the Land Tenure Center (LTC) is perhaps one of the
most well-regarded university-based institutions to deal specifically
with land policy across the world. Essentially, the LTC serves as a
global resource institution on issues relating to land ownership, land
rights, land access,
and land use.
http://www.ies.wisc.edu/ltc/
VOLUNTEERMATCH
Dedicated to helping everyone find a great place to volunteer. It offers
a variety of online services to support a community of nonprofit, volunteer
and business leaders committed to civic engagement.
http://www.volunteermatch.org/
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
CDC - AVIAN FLU
Provides background information about avian influenza, including recent
outbreaks, the viruses, and the risk to human health.
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/
EXAMPLES OF LINKS THAT LIE
There are four independent avenues of trickery: playing technical
tricks with the link (URL), exploiting known bugs in Internet Explorer
and other software, using a domain name that appears (if you don't
know the rules for this sort of thing) to belong the company being
scammed and perhaps the worst of all, DNS poisoning. All are explained.
http://www.michaelhorowitz.com/linksthatlie.html
INDOOR AIR QUALITY AND HUMAN HEALTH
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/Tox/indoorair.html
HEAD IN THE CLOUDS
The Cloud Appreciation Society
http://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/
KAREN'S TIME COP
No more meetings running overtime! Teachers, time your exams! Cooks,
time your favorite recipes! Whether you're studying, excercising, or
just taking a nap at work, you'll enjoy Karen's Time Cop. This
downloadable file displays a large (up to full-screen) clock that shows
the time remaining (or elapsed time) for a user-selected period. Once
the selected amount of time has passed, your message is displayed, and
your .wav, .mid, .mp3 or .avi file is played.
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/pttimecop.asp
WRITING/JOURNALISM
THE EGGCORN DATABASE
Collects unusual spellings of a particular kind, which have come to be
called eggcorns. Typical examples include free reign (instead of free
rein) or hone in on (instead of home in on), and many "more or less
common reshapings of words and expressions."
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net
NO PLACE TO HIDE - THE CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
A multimedia investigation by news organizations working together across
print and broadcast platforms, to make a greater impact than any one
organization could alone.
http://www.noplacetohide.net/
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