Diigo Bookmarks: Week Ending February 25, 2012

• EServer.org: Accessible Writing

  The EServer is a digital humanities venture, based at Iowa State U, where hundreds of writers, editors and scholars gather to publish over 35,000 works free of charge.

  tags: humanities literature ebooks reference

• Sonnet Central

  Welcome to Sonnet Central, an archive of English sonnets, commentary, and relevant web links and a forum for poets to share and discuss their own work. Sonnets are grouped by period below and can also be accessed quickly via an alphabetical list of authors or the java navigation page. All of the sonnets included here (as well as most of those that are linked) are modernized texts for the general reader and are not presented for purposes of scholarly work.

  tags: humanities literature poetry sonnet

• Shakespeare Online

  tags: humanities literature Renaissance Shakespeare poetry sonnet drama plays

• Shakespeare’s Sonnets

  All the sonnets are provided here, with descriptive commentary attached to each one, giving explanations of difficult and unfamiliar words and phrases, and with a full analysis of any special problems of interpretation which arise. Sonnets by other Elizabethan poets are also included, Spenser, Sidney, Drayton and a few other minor authors. The poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt are also given, with both old and modern spelling versions, and with brief notes provided.

  tags: humanities literature Renaissance Shakespeare poetry sonnet

• Art Project, powered by Google

  Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.

  tags: humanities art museum virtualtour

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Diigo Bookmarks: Week Ending February 18, 2012

• Stanley Lombardo Reads Homer’s The Iliad in Ancient Greek

  MP3 file

  tags: humanities literature AncientGreece Iliad audio

• The Virtual Iliad

  This page is intended to provide an interactive and completely informative, in-depth summary of Homer’s “Iliad”.

  tags: humanities reference literature AncientGreece Iliad summary

• AbleOne Classics Technology Center on the Web

  The Classics Technology Center on the Web (CTCWeb) is part of the AbleOne Education Network (AbleOne), an online educational resource for millions of educators and students at the K-12 and post secondary levels around the globe.

  tags: humanities reference literature education philosophy

• The Iliad by Homer CliffsNotes

  tags: humanities literature AncientGreece Iliad summary reference

• Outline of Homer’s Iliad

  summary of books

  tags: humanities literature AncientGreece Iliad summary reference

• SparkNotes: The Iliad

  tags: humanities literature AncientGreece Iliad summary reference

• The Iliad by Homer

  translated by Samuel Butler

  tags: humanities literature AncientGreece Iliad text ebook

• Smithsonian Virtual Exhibits

  tags: museum virtualtour science history archaeology

• Exploratorium

  the museum of science, art and human perception

  tags: science art museum

• Exploratorium: Ancient Observatories

  Chaco Canyon and Chichen Itza

  tags: history science astronomy archaeology AncientObservatories

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Video: “Can’t Stop Tutorial”

Video:  “Can’t Stop Tutorial“

Last week, I learned how to play Can’t Stop in Second Life. Last night I was #9 in the world rankings.

Diigo Bookmarks: Week Ending February 11, 2012

• SaveandSearch.com

  SaveAndSearch.com is a platform where you can Save anything you need, you don’t even need to remember website url or anything. It provides the Instant Searching facility which makes it more easy to use.

  tags: research notes

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Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Glass Empires

Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Glass Empires is a collection of three relatively short novels set in the mirror universe introduced in the parallel universe originally introduced in “Mirror, Mirror” in the original Star Trek series:

• Age of the Empress, which follows the episode of Star Trek: Enterprise “In a Mirror, Darkly” in which Hoshi Sato becomes the empress of the Terran Empire
• The Sorrows of Empire, which follows the mirror Spock from “Mirror, Mirror“
• The Worst of Both Worlds, which features a mirror Jean-Luc Picard

Of the three novels, I preferred The Sorrows of Empire.  I was never much of a fan of Star Trek: Enterprise, and the only regular characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation appearing in the third novel were Picard and Wesley (Crusher), who had no last name in the novel.

There are more novels set in the mirror universe:

• Obsidian Alliances, another collection of three novels
• Rise Like Lions

I just started reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Fearful Symmetry, in which characters also cross over to and from the mirror universe.

Shadows in Flight by Orson Scott Card

Since I read the last book in the Ender’s Shadow series by Orson Scott Card,  Shadow of the Giant (2004), I’ve been waiting for the sequel.  It finally came out this year:  Shadows in Flight.  At first, the dynamic among Bean’s three children reminded me of Ender and his siblings.

Card may have intended this novel to wrap up the Ender’s series, but I think he needs another one.

Diigo Bookmarks: Week Ending February 4, 2012

• Poets’ Corner

  Welcome to Poets’ Corner, one of the largest and oldest text resources on the web. The goal of this ongoing project is to develop a user-friendly library that is both a useful reference and an appealing place to browse and explore – and there is plenty of material here to explore. The collection covers roughly 7,000 works by about 800 poets – including some of the best known works in the English language – and many obscure and forgotten works that are well worth reading .

  tags: poetry literature humanities

• Encyclopedia of Psychology

  tags: encyclopedia psychology reference

• eLS: Citable Reviews in the Life Sciences

  eLS features over 4,800 specially commissioned, peer-reviewed and citable articles in the life sciences and is a valuable resource for undergraduates, graduate students and researchers.

  eLS articles are written by leaders in the field to provide comprehensive and authoritative coverage of each subject area. eLS is updated by approximately 400 articles per year, with new articles publishing on a monthly basis.

  tags: encyclopedia reviews lifesciences science

• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online

  Welcome to REP Online – your dynamic online resource for researching, teaching and studying in the philosophy arena and related disciplines. The online version of Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy builds on the success of the original by providing that invaluable combination for a reference work; top quality content combined with the full searchability and accessibility of the Internet.

  tags: encyclopedia philosophy reference humanities

• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  tags: encyclopedia philosophy reference humanities

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  tags: encyclopedia philosophy reference humanities

• Encyclopedia of Mormonism

  tags: encyclopedia religion Mormonism reference

• BuzzFeed

  BuzzFeed Tracks the Web’s Obsessions in Real Time

  tags: news trends aggregator socialmedia web2.0

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Blog Posts, Articles, and Reports To Read: January 2012

• “Strategies for Blog-Powered Instruction“
• “Scoop This: A Comprehensive Guide to Scoop.it for Content Curation“
• “Sloan-C’s Definition of ‘Online Course’ May Be Out of Sync with Reality“