Dancing Monkey Mania

A nice presentation by @shareski on why Twitter isn't (always) the stupidest thing ever…

Also home of the 2008 Sexiest Barista … 

Many varieties to choose from…

Find interesting Twitter people based on other interesting people. Looks promising– if I could ever get past the "Twitter seems a little slow today" error message

A quick guide to some more (and less) useful Photoshop actions for quickly enhancing/transmogrifying photos

Some very useful content here!

This is a subject that deserves some thought. For the most part, online conferences (and online strands of face-to-face) seem to be perceived as (and often subtly created as) alternative to the "real thing" that are inferior but better-than-nothing. Reminds me of the way distance education and online learning (mostly) used to be seen the same way in comparison to their face-to-face counterparts…

You have to be a poetry geek, perhaps, but a few of these made me laugh out loud. The exchange between Whitman and Pound is priceless.

Some great videos here… thanks @jstein

Audio interviews with scores of writers of all kinds, including many speculative fictioneers and discussions of writing, writers and the writing process.

All of "The Prose Poem" vol. 8 is available online in the Providence Digital Commons… wish the rest were!

Interesting piece discussing _Beauty_ and _The Art Instinct_, both of which take on the fascinating subject of evolutionary aesthetics…