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25 Hottest Urban Legends A list of the 25 hottest urban legends currently making the online rounds. Labor PainsFACT CHECK: Did Scott Walker say that Labor Day should be replaced with Patriots Day? (7 September 2015)
30 Interesting Websites You Probably Haven’t Heard Of
Apart from the regular dips into your favorite social media waterholes, I’m sure you have that assortment of websites you visit almost religiously every day. Routines have that nasty habit of becoming boring after a while, hence the need for lists like this. In this post you will find 30 interesting websites that you probably have never heard of. Although not all will be appealing to everyone, I’m sure you will be able to find a handful of websites, from this list, that is your cup of tea. From places to discover new content such as articles and music, to sites where you can learn about Greek mythology and unpublished truths about trending issues, hopefully this list will help you break the monotony – at least until the next list comes along.
Download 448 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
You could pay $118 on Amazon for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s catalog The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry. Or you could pay $0 to download it at MetPublications, the site offering “five decades of Met Museum publications on art history available to read, download, and/or search for free.” If that strikes you as an obvious choice, prepare to spend some serious time browsing MetPublications’ collection of free art books and catalogs.
The 15 Best Places On The Internet For Book Lovers
The internet is great for many things: The OC GIFs, Harambe memes, and literature. Does it seem like one of those things is not like the other? If it feels at all strange to you that the medium which has been credited (along with television, of course) with a national decline in attention spans and an accompanying rise in people wanting to get their news via 15-second video clips rather than 1500-word articles, well, yeah, when put that way, maybe it does seem weird.
Forgotten Books Apps for iOS, Android & Windows
FORGOTTEN BOOKS, is pleased to announce that we are in the final stages of development of our mobile applications. We are developing for the three leading devices: Apple iPad and iPad Mini, Android tablets and Microsoft Windows Surface. The apps will be free to download and operate much in the same way as the web site, allowing 90% previews of all books, or full membership from just $2.99 per month. As a Forgotten Books member your account information and book credits are shared over all platforms and devices, meaning you will be able to read Forgotten Books wherever you go on your choice of device, whether it is a Desktop PC, Laptop, iPad, Samsung Galaxy or Windows Surface. The Forgotten Books apps will offer the same amazing features found on the Forgotten Books website including over 1,000,000 books from our extensive library, Intelligent Bookshelf, page search, search within books, image search and word data.
40 Websites Ruin Your Productivity
1. Stripgenerator Hey, get your mind out of the gutter–Stripgenerator is about comic creation, not clothing removal–though we wouldn’t claim that the two paths have never crossed. The site lets you build your very own customized comic strip in a matter of minutes.
Stephen King’s Top 20 Rules for Writing
As you know I in the habit of publishing “writing rules” from various well-known writers as I stumble over them on the web. They won’t write your books for you, but they are food for thought. For what it’s worth here are Stephen King’s.
Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People
by Toby W. Rush This page includes links to each of the individual Music Theory pages I've created in PDF form. This is a work in progress; I am writing new ones regularly and fixing errors and omissions on existing ones as I find them. If you find them useful for your theory studies, you are welcome to use them, and if you find errors or have suggestions, I invite you to contact me. Enjoy!
700 Free eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices
Download 800 free eBooks to your Kindle, iPad/iPhone, computer, smart phone or ereader. Collection includes great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including works by Asimov, Jane Austen, Philip K. Dick, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Neil Gaiman, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf & James Joyce. Also please see our collection 1,000 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free, where you can download more great books to your computer or mp3 player. Learn how to load ebook (.mobi) files to your Kindle with this video
15 Best Online Bookstores for Cheap New and Used Books
Between their very public fight with Hachette over book pricing and all of their futuristic but also kind of creepy side projects (think delivery drones), there are a number of reasons why you might be looking to buy books from a site that’s not Amazon. If you don’t have a local bookstore or if you need a specific title (like a textbook), the web is your best bet. There are a zillion sites offering cheap books online, and if you’re not sure where to start, you’re in the right place. We’ve looked all over and found 15 of the best online bookstores where you can find deals on new books, used books, textbooks, and more.
What Shakespeare Plays Originally Sounded Like
2545Share107 In this video from The Open University, we learn about the Globe Theater's experiments with "Original Pronunciation" (OP), which is exactly what it sounds like–English as it was pronounced at the time Shakespeare's plays were written and first performed. Unsurprisingly, OP is quite different from modern pronunciation, and often changes lines dramatically. Often lines rhyme in the OP accent, but do not in a modern accent (also known as Received Pronunciation, or RP). My favorite is an example late in the video, when "proved" is pronounced like "loved," as they are supposed to rhyme in Sonnet 116.
How to Use Firefox Addons
Even though Firefox usage has been on the decline over the last few years, it’s still in second place behind Google Chrome in terms of usage. The main reason behind that is add-ons. Firefox can be customized in a million different ways, something no other browser can replicate to that level. In Firefox lingo, add-ons can consist of a number of things: extensions, themes, plugins, services, search providers, language packs, etc. Add-ons allow you to change how Firefox works, extend its functionality or customize the appearance of the browser.
