Cool Stuff from Scout Report

September 2, 2006

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Today’s Scout Report had some great items I thought I’d pass along:

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project.
“On this site you will have the opportunity to find out more about the cylinder format, listen to thousands of musical and spoken selections from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and discover a little-known era of recorded sound.” I listened to a couple. Way cool!

The Eubie Blake Collection. “While jazz pianists such as Earl Hines, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, and others may be more well-known today, Eubie Blake predates them all.” I haven’t explored it yet, but it’s gotta be good.

Dioramas: American Museum of Natural History. I mention this one mainly because of the following sentence: “After a long period of decline, there was a recrudescence in these seemingly simple and straightforward pedagogical tools.” Say what?

Uncle Tom’s Cabin & American Culture. On the sitemap, I was intrigued by the first category of materials, captioned “PreTexts”. I never thought of the word in that context, but, it’s obviously corrext! Amazingly, I’ve never read the book!

Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts. The sort of thing that would’ve been required reading for English class at Country Day School.

TEDTalks. “TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and this acronym is familiar to those in the know as an annual conference that brings together talented persons from each of these fields every year to Monterey, CA. The price of attending the conference is a bit steep, but never fear, as this site will give users access to some of these provocative and enlightening sessions presented at their various gatherings.” Yeah, well, it might be interesting.

JetPhoto Studio 3.2.1. Looks like it could be a very nice program for cataloging and organizing digital photographs. Besides a nice list of features, it meets my first criterion for judging programs: it’s free. :thumbup:



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