FREE WONDER WOMAN!!!- Nikki Finke on Deadline.com/hollywood

 Hollywood Entertainment Breaking News - Nikki Finke on Deadline.com/hollywood

FREE WONDER WOMAN!!! --DC Comics Has Ruined Wonder Woman!

By Nikki Finke | Wednesday June 30, 2010 @ 4:23am PDT

DEADLINE EXCLUSIVE: Don Kramer's Wonder Woman

DC Comics announced that, starting today, Wonder Woman "will appear like you’ve never seen her before". And I wish they'd just left her alone, especially since she's the only comic book character female I've ever admired. Of course, it took a bunch of men to ruin her. Look at the new costume design by DC Comics Co-Publisher Jim Lee below: she looks ready for Goth Day at the Sherman Oaks Galleria. (Shame on Diane Nelson, the head of DC Entertainment, for allowing this to happen. And for not finding a talented woman writer to update the icon's saga.) Here's the announcement about the dumbass stuff that DC Comics is doing to her. So let me start the campaign: FREE WONDER WOMAN!

Hollywood Entertainment Breaking News - Nikki Finke on Deadline.com/hollywood

Inside Iowa State

Inside Iowa State 

For those of you using Windows, Shareaholic is a great way to add social media functionality to your browser. After adding it to your browser toolbar, simply click on the Shareaholic button to send a web page to e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, LinkedIn, Delicious, and many other services.

Inside Iowa State

Vimeo, Video Sharing For You

Vimeo, Video Sharing For You 

Welcome, you're new, aren't you?

Vimeo is a respectful community of creative people who are passionate about sharing the videos they make. We provide the best tools and highest quality video in the universe. See for yourself and Join today! 

Vimeo, Video Sharing For You

Nonprofit Good Practice Guide - Home

Nonprofit Good Practice Guide - Home

The Nonprofit Good Practice Guide was created in 2002 with the goal of capturing, organizing, disseminating and promoting the use of knowledge in the nonprofit sector. In 2007, the site was redesigned with additional interactive features making it more intuitive and of even greater benefit. Since its inception, the Nonprofit Good Practice Guide has become an invaluable resource to users in all 50 states and over 140 countries.

The Guide is a project of the Nonprofit Leadership Institute at the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership. In 2007, the Institute was renamed the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation Nonprofit Leadership Institute in recognition of a generous donation from the Foundation to promote good practice throughout the nonprofit sector. This pledge of support will allow the Institute to expand and enhance current offerings and to continue its tradition of providing support, education, and information to leaders of nonprofit organizations.

Nonprofit Good Practice Guide - Home

Alexa the Web Information Company

Alexa the Web Information Company

Alexa.com

Alexa's Web site is built on the notion that timely and relevant information is essential to a vital web experience.

Alexa Site Information - Alexa has built an unparalleled database of information about sites that includes statistics, related links and more. All of this information can be found on Alexa's Site Overview pages, Traffic Detail pages and Related Links pages. To access these pages, simply type the URL of any site into the Alexa Search box.

Alexa Top Sites - Alexa has lists of Top Sites available by country, language or in a category. You can download a free file of the global top million sites sorted by Alexa Traffic Rank.

Alexa the Web Information Company

Events, Festivals and Parties |World Events Calendar |whatsonwhen

Events, Festivals and Parties |World Events Calendar |whatsonwhen 

The worldwide events guide from Frommer's

Events, Festivals and Parties |World Events Calendar |whatsonwhen

VideoLectures - exchange ideas & share knowledge

VideoLectures - exchange ideas & share knowledge

VideoLectures.NET

VideoLectures.NET is a free and open access educational video lectures repository. The lectures are given by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science. The portal is aimed at promoting science, exchanging ideas and fostering knowledge sharing by providing high quality didactic contents not only to the scientific community but also to the general public. All lectures, accompanying documents, information and links are systematically selected and classified through the editorial process taking into account also users' comments.

VideoLectures - exchange ideas & share knowledge

Jobs, careers, employment, education - Vault.com

Jobs, careers, employment, education - Vault.com

Vault is the Web's one-stop destination for millions of professionals who are job hunting - or just serious about managing their careers. (And, that's just about everyone in today's job market.) There are many new entries to the career information arena - but Vault has been gathering unbiased, insider information and data about companies, industries and specific jobs for more than 12 years. Our goal is to give people the competitive edge - to land a great job or make a critical career decision. And, because we serve and audience of top talent - we also work with the world's leading companies and universities on their recruitment efforts.

If you report or write about careers and job search, Vault can provide that same quality and depth of content - insider information, relevant research and perspective from our team of experts and editorial staff.

Jobs, careers, employment, education - Vault.com

FinAid! Financial Aid, College Scholarships and Student Loans

FinAid! Financial Aid, College Scholarships and Student Loans

FinAid was established in the fall of 1994 as a public service. This award-winning site has grown into the most comprehensive source of student financial aid information, advice and tools -- on or off the web.

Access to FinAid is free for all users and there is no charge to link to the site.

FinAid has earned a stellar reputation in the educational community as the best web site of its kind. It's comprehensive, it's informative, it's objective -- and it's the first stop on the web for students looking for ways to finance their education.

FinAid! Financial Aid, College Scholarships and Student Loans

The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa - The University of Iowa Libraries

The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa - The University of Iowa Libraries 

Online version of The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa, edited by David Hudson, Marvin Bergman, and Loren Horton. Written by an impressive team of more than 150 scholars and writers, The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa was created to spotlight prominent Iowans throughout the history of the region.

Iowa has been blessed with citizens of strong character who have made invaluable contributions to the state and to the nation. In the 1930s alone, such towering figures as John L. Lewis, Henry A. Wallace, and Herbert Hoover hugely influenced the nation’s affairs. Iowa’s Native Americans, early explorers, inventors, farmers, scholars, baseball players, musicians, artists, writers, politicians, scientists, conservationists, preachers, educators, and activists continue to enrich our lives and inspire our imaginations.

The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa includes each subject’s name, birth and death dates, place of birth, education, and career and contributions. Many of the names will be instantly recognizable to most Iowans; others are largely forgotten but deserve to be remembered. Beyond the distinctive lives and times captured in the individual biographies, readers of the dictionary will gain an appreciation for how the character of the state has been shaped by the character of the individuals who have inhabited it.

The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa - The University of Iowa Libraries

Back to College: Online and On-Campus Degree Programs for Adults

Back to College: Online and On-Campus Degree Programs for Adults

Back to College: Getting Started

Welcome! Going back to college as an adult can be a daunting (sometimes even scary), but very worthwhile experience. We all know that there are many talented and accomplished individuals who never went to college or for some reason or another were not able to complete their degree. For many, earning that "piece of paper" can make a significant difference in their professional or personal life (the achievement of a lifelong dream) - but the idea of returning to school after a long absence can present quite a challenge.

Often adults who are returning to school after years of not being in a classroom are apprehensive about not fitting in (for example, being thrust into a classroom with 18 to 25 year olds), taking good notes, studying, and doing well on tests. The admissions and financial aid process can be a confusing and frustrating experience. Back to College® offers a directory of resources and interactive community specifically designed to help manage these challenges, including an Ask the Experts and online discussion forum.

Back to College: Online and On-Campus Degree Programs for Adults

ScienceResearch.com - One Search. Superior Science.

ScienceResearch.com - One Search. Superior Science.

ScienceResearch.com

ScienceResearch.com is a free, publicly available deep web search engine that uses advanced "federated search technology" to return high quality results by submitting your search query - in real-time - to other well respected search engines then collating, ranking and dropping duplicates of the results. Please contact us if you have any questions or suggestions.

Would ScienceResearch.com be more useful, if you could integrate subscription-based collections or your own internal databases? Learn more...

ScienceResearch.com - One Search. Superior Science.

American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States

American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States 

Online Speech Bank

Database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.

See also a special issue: The Rhetoric of 9-11

Rhetorical Figures in Sound

200+ short audio and video clips illustrating stylistic figures of speech ranging from alliteration to synecdoche. Clips are taken from speeches, movies, sermons, and sensational media events and delivered by politicians, actors, preachers, athletes, and other notable personalities.

Top 100 Speeches

Full text, audio, and video  database of the 100 most significant American political speeches of the 20th century, according to 137 leading scholars of American public address, as compiled by Stephen E. Lucas (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Martin J. Medhurst (Baylor University). Find out who made the cut and experience the power of rhetorical eloquence in this provocative list of "who's who" in American public address.

Movie Speeches

Full text, audio and video database of some 210  Hollywood movie speeches.

Included are military movie speeches, sports-oriented movie speeches, forensic movie speeches, and social-political movie speeches, among others.

American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States

Ed/ITLib Digital Library → Home

Ed/ITLib Digital Library → Home 

EdITLib is to facilitate learning, discovery and innovation by connecting scholarly research on Educational Technology/E-Learning with learning opportunities.

Ed/ITLib Digital Library → Home

Photoshop Tutorials and Flash Tutorials - Tutorialized

Photoshop Tutorials and Flash Tutorials - Tutorialized

Categories of Tutorials include....

• 2D Graphics
• 3D Graphics
• Web Design & Development
• Business Applications
• Business Development
• Databases
• Desktop Programming
• Operating Systems
• Video Editing
• Miscellaneous

 

Photoshop Tutorials and Flash Tutorials - Tutorialized

SCETI Home Page

SCETI Home Page 

Over 12,000 images from various collections of rare books, manuscripts, papyri, photographs and sheet music are available for your viewing. Each collection has its own web site that is unrestricted in the interests of knowledge and learning.

SCETI Home Page

Futurity.org

Futurity.org

Futurity aggregates the very best research news. The content is produced by the partner universities, and submitted to Futurity’s editor, Jenny Leonard (editor@futurity.org) , for consideration. The site, which is hosted at the University of Rochester, covers research findings in a range of topics, inluding the environment, health, science, and society.

Futurity.org

K-Gray Engineering Pathway Digital Library - Engineering Education Wing of the NSDL

K-Gray Engineering Pathway Digital Library - Engineering Education Wing of the NSDL

Engineering Pathway

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
The Engineering Pathway is a portal to high-quality teaching and learning resources in engineering, applied science and math, computer science/information technology, and engineering technology and is designed for use by K-12 and university educators and students. The K-12 engineering curriculum uses engineering as a vehicle for the integration of hands-on science and mathematics through real-world designs and applications that inspire the creativity of youth.
Users may search over K-12 engineering lessons and activities, as well as other K-12 resources, by many criteria - including content focus area, grade level and educational standards. K-12 community resources include professional development opportunities and research findings. Higher education resources may be discovered by multiple criteria including discipline, audience, resource type, title, author/creator, special topics, or by selected collection. Higher education community resources include support for ABET accreditation, research and scholarship, curricula development and extracurricular activities for students.
Additional features include outreach information and materials, diversity resources, professional society and career planning information, personalized workspace, the ability to contribute and comment on resources, and hosted search services.
The Engineering Pathway's goal is to provide resources that help teachers, parents, faculty, and practicing engineers to inspire more of today's students to follow an engineering path as their way to understand and improve the world.

 

K-Gray Engineering Pathway Digital Library - Engineering Education Wing of the NSDL

CollegeInsight

Home | CollegeInsight

College InSight, an initiative of the Institute for College Access & Success, makes data on college affordability, diversity, and student success easy to find, compare, and analyze. College InSight is the successor to EconomicDiversity.org and provides data for almost 5,000 U.S. colleges and universities. In addition to college-level data, it features totals and averages for states, sectors, and other groupings of colleges. College InSight is both an easy-to-use consumer resource and a sophisticated research tool designed to help shed light on important trends and issues.

There are three interconnected ways to tap into College InSight’s wide range of data:

1. Spotlight - Start by selecting a college, state, or type of school to see a snapshot of key data and a relevant comparison.

2. Topics - Start with a topic, then dig deeper to see how specific colleges, states, or school types compare.

3. Explore All Data - Build your own table with any combination of colleges, variables, or years in the College InSight database.

Home | CollegeInsight

Hotels and Vacation Reviews - TripAdvisor

Hotels and Vacation Reviews - TripAdvisor

TripAdvisor Mission: Help people around the world plan and have the perfect trip.

TripAdvisor® Media Network, operated by TripAdvisor, LLC, attracts 46 million monthly visitors* across 15 popular travel brands: TripAdvisor®, www.airfarewatchdog.com, www.bookingbuddy.com, www.cruisecritic.com, www.familyvacationcritic.com, www.flipkey.com, www.frequentflier.com, www.holidaywatchdog.com, www.independenttraveler.com, www.onetime.com, www.seatguru.com, www.smartertravel.com, www.travel-library.com, www.travelpod.com and www.virtualtourist.com

TripAdvisor-branded sites alone make up the most popular and largest travel community in the world, with more than 34 million unique monthly visitors*, 15 million registered members and more than 35 million reviews and opinions

 

Hotels and Vacation Reviews - TripAdvisor

Airline Seating Charts - Best Airplane Seats - SeatGuru

Airline Seating Charts - Best Airplane Seats - SeatGuru

Wonder if I should include this on the aero engineering guide...it does give details on a/c interiors -- HSM

At SeatGuru, we love travel, but we can't fly on every single plane. So we turn to you, our users, for the real truth on seat width, pitch, and comfort. Through the "Submit Comments" button on each aircraft page, thousands of reviews have been added to the SeatGuru database by flyers who know a great seat when they sit in one. The SeatGuru staff utilizes these comments to maintain the accuracy of our airplane seat information and updates the site with both user-submitted reviews and independent research.

Thank you—we smile every time we sit in a "green" seat.

Airline Seating Charts - Best Airplane Seats - SeatGuru

Roadside America - Guide to Uniquely Odd Tourist Attractions

Roadside America - Guide to Uniquely Odd Tourist Attractions

RoadsideAmerica.com

RoadsideAmerica.com is a caramel-coated-nutbag-full of odd and hilarious travel destinations -- over 9,000 places -- ready for exploration.

Since our first book, Roadside America, introduced readers to the world of offbeat tourist attractions, we (authors and road trip know-it-alls Doug Kirby, Ken Smith, Mike Wilkins) haven't slowed down. In fact, we're speeding up! Or maybe it's just a bad optical illusion...

Planning Your Own Road Trips

Site visitors often tell us our write-ups help them plan their own trips. We provide directions to attractions and even maps when available; otherwise, just drive to the town and ask a local. It's more fun that way.

We list some attraction hours and admission prices, but be wary -- these change frequently at many offbeat places.

Hours are sometimes a crap shoot. Graveyards are open all the time; but lone fanatical collectors may be off digging up petrified leeches, or getting their medication when you arrive. You take your chances. Call ahead if you're going way out of your way.

For reasons that grow hazier with time, we produced a thicker, more depraved sequel, New Roadside America. The books chronicled tourist attractions throughout the continental United States -- from the World's Largest Twine Ball to an obscure monument to a patriotic pig.

After a series of Hypertours in the early 1990s, the Internet found us (or vice versa). In 1994, we guided AOL and Hotwired users on the web's first real-time, coast-to-coast "virtual vacation" -- a Hypertour from California to New York.

We launched RoadsideAmerica.com in 1996. Here's a 10 Year March of History.

 

 

 

Roadside America - Guide to Uniquely Odd Tourist Attractions

Roadfood.com - The most memorable local eateries along the highways and back roads of America

 

The most memorable local eateries along the highways and back roads of America

 

Roadfood means great regional meals along highways, in small towns and in city neighborhoods.
It is non-franchised, sleeves-up food made by cooks, bakers, pitmasters, and sandwich-makers who are America’s culinary folk artists.
Roadfood is almost always informal and inexpensive; and the best Roadfood restaurants are colorful places enjoyed by locals (and savvy travelers) for their character as well as their menu.
It is our intention that Roadfood.com will lead the way to:

• great local color
• the best regional specialties
• unforgettable diners, celestial barbecue, and four-star pig-outs galore!

Roadfood.com - The most memorable local eateries along the highways and back roads of America