Webcomics
Fan Culture and Intellectual Property
- Lawrence Lessig 2007 speech
- A 2007 speech from premier lawyer and Intellectual Property guru Lawrence Lessig on copyright, piracy free culture and fan videos.
- http://creativecommons.org/
- The home page for Creative Commons, which offers alternatives to copyright protection for artists, creators, users and remixers.
- iCommons
- The home page for iCommons.org, which supports the distribution of information and open source software.
- SOPA and PIPA: Just the Facts
"More About SOPA and PIPA" on Google's "End Piracy, Not Literacy" page
- The above links will take you to two resources which overview the recent SOPA / PIPA controversy.
Taming of the Shrew
- Aristotle, Galen and the Four Humors theory
- The above link and this handout may help you to understand what Petrucchio means when he says he is worried about Katherine's "choler".
To help you develop a vocabulary with which to speak about film, you may want to skim through one or more of the following glossaries, all available online:
I recommend looking at (at least the first few pages of) Thomas G. Rosenmeyer's "'Metatheater': An Essay on Overload" to help develop your understanding of metadrama/metatheatre. The article was published in Arion in 2002. You can find the full-text version of the article in the JSTOR database.
Help with HTML and CSS
- Hyperlinks!
- A page devoted to hyperlinks for the Hypertext Close Reading project.
- Some basic image backgrounds
- Follow the links to look at 3 simply-designed pages that use background images. Right-click on each page and select "View Source" to see the code.
- A very basic HTML page.
- This page is designed to show you how to display headers, paragraphs, images, italic text, bold text and links.
- The same basic HTML page using a simple CSS layout.
- This page is designed to show you how to do basic formatting using CSS.
- A sample "personal webpage" using CSS and HTML.
- My own professional web page follows a very basic format and uses only CSS and XHTML code.
- W3Schools
- The website w3schools is my favorite online resource for learning about CSS and HTML. It includes sample pages that you can "edit" on-site and helpful tutorials.
- Hypertext Close Reading Project
- See the hypertext sample page for an example of what a hypertext close reading in progress might look like.
- Filezilla Download Page
- It looks like both Windows and Mac users can install this FTP program.
- Core FTP Download Page
- The Core FTP Lite program (free) is a pretty good one. I use it from home.
- Notepad++ Download Page
- I recommend either Notepad++ (available for free) or Notepad (which comes standard on most windows computers) for Windows users.
- Mac OS X
- You can find out how to turn Mac OS X at the above link.
Midsummer Night's Dream
- "Oberon and Titania" 1862 political cartoon
- For a fascinating reimagination of the figures of Oberon, Titania and the "little changeling boy," see the 1862 Punch political cartoon by John Tenniel at the above link.
Help with MLA format
- The OWL at Purdue
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This Writing Lab is user-friendly and regularly updated.
Grammar Comics & Blogs
- The Alot
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This helpful post at the blog Hyperbole and a Half is here to remind you that "alot" is not a word.
- Grammar Posts at The Oatmeal
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These grammar-themed comics at The Oatmeal are here to help with word choice and punctuation.