On Plagiarism

McGill student who refused to submit his coursework to Turnitin.com.

19-year-old sophomore the first college student to challenge university policy on Turnitin.com -- and win.

New Technology Update: Electronic Plagiarism Detection

The Web's plagiarism police

Plagiarism bibliography

Turnitin.com

Yoko Ono

The Buddha Project at CSU will include work by Yoko Ono.

John Irving

In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens - John Irving on Lessons in Storytelling. This Salon interview with Irving is about Irving's life as an underdog - "...how he wrestled his writing career to the ground and why he'd like to grind critics' faces into the mat."

More on Moore

Michael Moore's critique of the Bush administration, won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Read Frank Rich's commentary - Michael Moores' Candid Camera.

NPR This Morning

Two interesting stories - National Geographic is following the route of Steinbeck's Sea of Cortez Expedition - listen to NPR's Echoes of 'The Sea of Cortez'.



NPR's Present at the Creation on the genesis of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath.

And The Buddha Project at CSU will include work by Yoko Ono.

Telecasters

Fender Europe has a cool site - The Fender Files. Check out Ten Terrific Telecasters, including the Muddy Waters Telecaster.

Pete Seeger

Today is Pete Seeger's 85th birthday - here's Pete's bio at the Rock Hall. He wrote Turn, Turn, Turn made famous by the Byrds. Read more at Pop Music - The Golden Era 1951-1971 at Sony.com.

Kurt Vonnegut and Bob Dylan In These Times

Good to hear from the old guy - "Cold Turkey" by Kurt Vonnegut is an essay about the confused and confusing world we exist in. It appears online in In These Times. There is also a piece about how weird it is to see Bob Dylan working for Victoria's Secret - "Empire Burlesque" by Kevin Canfield. Here's a Slate piece about Bob's Victoria video.

Michael Moore

Michael Moore's documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" creates controversy at the Cannes International Film Festival.

Poetry at the Atlantic

The Atlantic magazine has a great poetry section, the Atlantic Poetry Pages.

Internet and Information

James Fallows' article in today's NYTimes "The Twilight of the Information Middlemen" is about the impact of free access to information that used to cost money, not unlike free music downloads. He cites the emergence of Blogs as an example of this trend. Fallows writes for Atlantic magazine and the New York Review of Books.

"Anecdote of the Jar"

Verlyn Klinkenborg uses Wallace Stevens' poem "Anecdote of the Jar" to introduce "Without Walls", a NYTimes magazine piece about landscape architecture.

"Anecdote of the Jar"

I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.

The wilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild.
The jar was round upon the ground
And tall and of a port in air.

It took dominion everywhere.
The jar was gray and bare.
It did not give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Tennessee.

Here is the Antique Fruit Jar Hall of Fame.

Gibson J-45

Nineteenth Century in Print

The Nineteenth Century in Print presents twenty-three popular periodicals digitized by Cornell University Library and the Preservation Reformatting Division of the Library of Congress. They include literary and political magazines, as well as Scientific American, Manufacturer and Builder, and Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry.

Citations

The Citation Machine is a straight-forward template for generating a Works Cited page - sponsored by the Landmark Schools Project.

Poet Laureate Louise Gluck

Last Fall Louise Gluck was named U.S. Poet Laureate. She is a member of the Academy of American Poets; her poems can be found here and here.

Thruxton

The Triumph Thruxton is one cool bike.

Journalistic Style Sheet

Best Practices for Newspaper Journalists is published by The Freedom Forum, a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. The foundation focuses on three priorities: the Newseum, First Amendment freedoms and newsroom diversity.

Weird Stuff

Brandchannel.com, Museum of Web Art, Art Cars, and Art Car Fest.