December 2006
other people's stories
Every story on OPS is a story a contributor heard from someone else. These stories have been overheard and misheard, told and re-told and sometimes refined over time.
Lateral Thinking Problems - Preconceptions
The site poses problems in lateral or logical thinking, from easy to hard, with both hints and answers. Great party conversation and something kids will like.
A List Apart: Primer
by 3 otherstips on a variety of aspects of web sites for new designers and web site owners
Edward Tufte home site
by 4 otherslots here from a major figure in information graphics; especially interesting are many entries in section, "Ask E.T."
November 2006
Visuarios: broadcast your skills
how-to videos or, more commonly, audio/slideshows; useful rhetorically for both technical writing and instructional video learning; web2.0 sharing of video that is perhaps instructionally more useful than YouTube.
Fifty (50!) Tools which can help you in Writing - lifehack.org
by 22 otherssimple, intuitive, thought provoking tips that really work
Visual Rhetoric
extensive course materials
The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson
entire book online
Sequence Analysis
by 1 otherby a teacher, great handout for students on how to analyze a film sequence
Zensufi Park
Zen/sufi stories help those with writer's block or pinned down to traditional narrative arcs
Hack your way out of writer’s block
witty and perhaps even useful
October 2006
Peter Murphy's Panoramic VR Weblog
panoramic pictures and social context; often witty in their detail
vitia
well written, much about pedagogy and digital culture, blogging
July 2006
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