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"The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities" (Welcome to the World Factbook, ¶1). "Unless a copyright is indicated, information on the Central Intelligence Agency Web site is in the public domain and may be reproduced, published or otherwise used without the Central Intelligence Agency's permission. We request only that the Central Intelligence Agency be cited as the source of the information and that any photo credits or bylines be similarly credited to the photographer or author or Central Intelligence Agency, as appropriate" (Copyright Notice, ¶1)

image manipulation program like Photoshop, only free! It tackles tasks such as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring

There's no "right" way to author your about me page. Some read like resumes, and others read like fun stories. Designers have the skills to add a little (or a big) artistic flair to their blogs' autobiographies, but you don't need to be a designer to be creative. Most pages at a minimum include the author's name, purpose for creating a website, and links to the author's other online content. It's all about presentation.

"Drawing on case studies from news media to visualization research, we identify distinct genres of narrative visualization. We characterize these design differences, together with interactivity and messaging, in terms of the balance between the narrative flow intended by the author (imposed by graphical elements and the interface) and story discovery on the part of the reader (often through interactive exploration). Our framework suggests design strategies for narrative visualization, including promising under-explored approaches to journalistic storytelling and educational media."

Frank Taylor, author of the Google Earth Blog, has put together a nice video tutorial demonstrating how to use Google's StreetView imagery within Google Earth. Frank demonstrates not only how to activate StreetView, but also how to use it in conjunction with other Google Earth elements such as the 3D buildings layer. You can watch the video below or watch the video and read the instructions on the Google Earth Blog.

Chets Creek Elementary's annual literary pumpkin festival. Each classroom decorates a pumpkin or pumpkins to represent their favorite book. These pumpkins are displayed at the school all week long.