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Celia Rees – links

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An Awfully Big Blog Adventure. Celia Rees websites and pages. Celia's fan page on Facebook. Bloomsbury’s Celia Rees website which includes a Pirates! Mini site, Witch Child website. And information about Sorceress. Allen and Unwin’s author page on Celia Rees. Includes answers to questions about writing. British Council’s contemporary writers page. A great new interview. With Celia by The English Association. Celia’s recommended sites for writers and readers. A useful and wide-ranging book review site.

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Jon Scieszka Worldwide

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Click the Start button. When the box changes color, click the Stop button. Play for hours! Guys Read at Hennepin County Library. The Bulletin/Center for Children's Books. A lot of boys aren't too crazy about reading. I grew up with five brothers. I taught elementary school for ten years. I've been writing books for kids for fifteen years. And I've been thinking a lot about why boys might not like reading. We can help boys read by:. Letting them choose what they read. Graphic novels, comics, comic strips.

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June 27, 2013. Social media and Egypt’s dazzling graffiti art. There’s a fascinating relationship emerging between graffiti and social media. Graffiti artists have always wrestled with their peculiar ephemerality…. June 26, 2013. Why do we play video games, when they cause us such pain? On Jesper Juul’s “The Art of Failure”. Why do we play video games, when they cause us such pain? This is the question that Jesper Juul…. June 25, 2013. You probably should. A…. June 20, 2013. October 04, 2011. 8221; I get...

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collision detection: How to spot a faked negative review: They're vague, long, and use lots of exclamation points!!!

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171; PREVIOUS ENTRY. Viewing massive accidents using Google Maps. 8220;Wired Love”: A tale of catfishing, OK Cupid, and sexting … from 1880. July 23, 2013. How to spot a faked negative review: They’re vague, long, and use lots of exclamation points! And pens delirious self-praise via a network of sock puppets. But it turns out there are also faked. Reviews — people who trashtalk a product even though they haven’t actually used it or bought it themselves. Better yet — it’s possible to. Didn’t buy th...

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collision detection: Selfies and Borges

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171; PREVIOUS ENTRY. Jcham979 and the video literacy of Breaking Bad. Of Star Wars “crawl” poetry and the weirdness of our attention spans. January 18, 2014. I was in my local branch of the Brooklyn Public Library yesterday when I found this:. The Book of Imaginary Beings. By Jorge Luis Borges. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. That photo above courtesy the Flickr Creative Commons stream of the Boston Public Library! Posted by Clive Thompson at 06:07 PM. Blog comments powered by Disqus. All text...

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collision detection: "Wired Love": A tale of catfishing, OK Cupid, and sexting ... from 1880

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171; PREVIOUS ENTRY. How to spot a faked negative review: They’re vague, long, and use lots of exclamation points! To be fair, he wrote it in 1949. July 24, 2013. 8220;Wired Love”: A tale of catfishing, OK Cupid, and sexting … from 1880. In the Victorian era, telegraph operators were the first people to live with virtual reality. Here’s how the 1880 novel. Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes. 8212; the story of Nattie Rogers, a young telegraph operator — begins:. A most puzzling and mysterious turn.

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collision detection: A game created "as if games were the only medium on Earth"

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171; PREVIOUS ENTRY. Why 18th century books looked like smartphone screens. I’ve started a new blog — this one is officially retired! July 22, 2014. A game created “as if games were the only medium on Earth”. I recently picked up. 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die. I couldn’t resist the title, which so neatly refracts the gibbering cultural anxieties of lists like “1000 novels everyone must read”. Mandatory, and that this number is as large as 1,001, points to the fact that the pool of. I&#82...

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collision detection: "Sounder and Relay": An art installation based on "Wired Love"

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171; PREVIOUS ENTRY. To be fair, he wrote it in 1949. Jcham979 and the video literacy of Breaking Bad. July 25, 2013. 8220;Sounder and Relay”: An art installation based on “Wired Love”. 8212; the novel about two telegraph officers who strike up a remote relationship — I got an email from the artist Silvia Ruzanka. It turns out she’s create a couple of pieces based on the novel! The one above is an installation called “Sounder and Relay”. Which Silvia describes thusly:. Posted by Clive Thompson at 07:45 PM.

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collision detection: How the attention-span of the world is changing: My essay for the CBC

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171; PREVIOUS ENTRY. Sangaku: The Sudoku of the 17th century. Bossaball: A zero-g version of volleyball. July 06, 2006. How the attention-span of the world is changing: My essay for the CBC. How are MySpace, Google, blogs and Amazon’s recommendation algorithms changing journalism? I recently tackled that question in an essay I was invited to write for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. I’ve pursued in previous blog postings! Also check out Cory Doctorow’s contribution. Media in the age of the swarm.