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Still no sign of becoming a Granddad; NHS said today but no news yet. Busy preparing for the two live broadcasts next week, I hope you will find time to join us.

Today’s Finds include…

1:

In forty illustrated pages, Will Mueller < http://willm.me/ > tells readers all they need to know about...

• free internet listening to music,
• streaming audio to your computer, and
• free download music sites to get all your favourite songs and albums in a whim.

Learn how to...

• share music with others and
• track a band’s performance and album releases!

Download the Internet Music Guidebook, now in PDF, and/or read it online at .

A MakeUseOf.com publication

2:
Forklift accident brings down a Russian Vodka warehouse. Luckily, no one was seriously injured.

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3:

Shape Poems is a poem generation template hosted by Read Write Think.

Shape Poems provides a template...

• for writing poems in the shape of an object, selected from one of four themes including...

• sports,
• school,
• nature, and
• celebrations,

...about that object.

Learners then...

• select a shape
• identify words that they associate with their chosen shape.
• Write a poem

When completed, learners can...

• hear their poems read to them and/or
• print their poems.

Try it out at http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/shape/.

4:

Haven’t got a Google Wave invite yet? Don’t worry. Sooner or later you will get it.

Meanwhile get yourself acquainted with Wave by reading “The Complete Guide to Google Wave” written by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash.

Currently the guide is available online for free at http://completewaveguide.com/guide/The_Complete_Guide_to_Google_Wave. It features eight chapters and two appendices, but it is going to expand as Google Wave develops. In January 2010 a PDF and print version of the book will be made available for purchase.

The online guide runs on a Wiki allowing other users to make contributions.

5:

Hilary Thomas, our HE Adviser, brought  C-LINK to the RSC Team's attention.

"C-LINK  is new search tool for finding related and possibly unknown concepts that lie on a path between two known concepts."

In their own words...

"Knowledge repositories proliferate at an accelerating rate. While these offer excellent support for specific information searches, there is limited support for unstructured browsing or semi-structured information gathering, when a user does not know what there is to know (but wants to find information connecting known concepts)."

Find out more and/or gain access to the User Guide at http://www.conceptlinkage.org/ OR try it out at http://www.conceptlinkage.org/clink/?.

6:

Many learners don’t get to experience hands-on aspects of history and/or archaeology. Using a mouse isn’t exactly hands-on but by clicking to Interactive Dig: El Carrizal from Archaeology Magazine, learners can see photographic updates and read first-hand accounts of this "in-progress" archaeological project.

By seeing professionals in action practitioners can encourage learners to think like historians themselves and hopefully it will excite learners about history and archeology.

Visit http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/veracruz/ to find out more and/or http://www.archaeology.org/.

7:

SimpleDesktops is a recently launched website where original and simple desktop wallpapers can be download/shared.

All wallpapers are...

• flare,
• shadow and
• gradient free,

...providing enough eye candy to avoid boredom.

Spice up desktops from about 25 wallpapers currently available; browse and download the 'chosen ones' with a single click. No email or sign up required.

Find out more and/or download a new desktop wallpaper at http://simpledesktops.com/.