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What really happened to Russia's missing cosmonauts? An incredible tale of space hacking, espionage and death in the lonely reaches of space.

Midnight, 19 May 1961. A crisp frost had descended on Turin’s city centre which was deserted and deathly silent. Well, almost. Two brothers, aged 20 and 23, raced through the grid-like streets (that would later be made famous by the film The Italian Job) in a tiny Fiat 600, which screamed in protest as they bounced across one cobbled piazza after another at top speed. The Fiat was loaded with dozens of iron pipes and aluminium sheets which poked out of windows and were strapped to the roof. The car screeched to a halt outside the city’s tallest block of flats. Grabbing their assorted pipes, along with a large toolbox, the two brothers ran up the stairs to the rooftop. Moments later, the city’s silence was rudely broken once more as they set to work: a concerto of hammering, clattering, sawing and shouting. Suddenly, an angry voice rang out; the man who lived on the floor below leant out of the window and screamed: “Will you stop that racket, I’m trying to sleep!” One of the young me

What really happened to Russia's missing cosmonauts? An incredible tale of space hacking, espionage and death in the lonely reaches of space. FT233 Midnight, 19 May 1961.

Testing emails con cucumber. Testing all fuc*** time :-)

Nice article from Dr Nic on testing outbound email using cucumber and email-spec. I've tried it and it works like a treat.

I love these.

MyLifeIsAverage is a place to share your everyday mediocrity. It is a place to post the mundane things in your boring, normal life, and read about other people's average lives.

MyLifeIsAverage: The Service Twitter Was Meant To Be http://bit.ly/oqnB5

The art of creating stories and the craft of sharing them. Inspired by the written word and the authors that link words and phrases together to form tales.

Ficly is a place for playing with story-telling; a collaborative environment where anyone can pick up a narrative thread and weave a prequel or sequel.

Ficly is a place for playing with story-telling; a collaborative environment where anyone can pick up a narrative thread and weave a prequel or sequel. You can start a story or jump into someone else's tale. The possibilities are endless, and in some cases, so are the stories.

short story collaboration site, write prequels or sequels to the work of others.

opposite of FML

Here you can create your own story, share it with friends and visit the gallery to see what other Storymakers have made.

Fer històries

oh wow - this is fun;)

mi piace la grafica

Enables digital stories to be made and shared with friends.

Book publishers Penguin have developed a website where children can write, illustrate (and add sounds) and publish their own stories.

A free online novel by Catherynne M. Valente, powered by donations.

Every Monday a new chapter is uploaded so the adventure can continue.

catherynne valente

at Strange Horizons Fiction

"I want to buy a gun," said the Thymomenoraptor. He moved his foreclaw along the glass case of pistols, counting them off: one, two, three, four. "That one." He tapped the case; the glass squeaked.

A short story about awesome dinosaurs, by Leonard Richardson

The best (i.e. only) dinosaur science fiction I've read lately.

Great story of dinosaurs in the modern age.

"Sorry I didn't return your calls, honey. I was in Europe. What's your excuse for being a bitch?"

This self-obsessive girl failed to listen to her boyfriend tell her many, many times that he was soon to go off travelling around Europe. When he leaves and therefore can't reply to her emails, she starts up a hilariously tragic and mildly twisted semi-monologue as this over-zealous nut job fears the worst for her 'relationship'.

Interactive Stories for grades K-5. Most are SMART-friendly.

Stories Interactive Sites for Smartboard Use – Grades K - 5

Different websites with stories. Mainly primary, but one site has a link to over 1000 online stories

Read a story for a child

Record yourself reading a book to your kids and then it can be played back online with the pages of the book while you're away or from a distance.

short story website

stories

Aside from his Nine Stories, JD Salinger published twenty-two stories in various magazines which remain uncollected. Several attempts have been made to compile these stories together but have met stiff resistance by the author. Spanning his literary career between the years 1940-1965, these stories display changes in both the author's style and message. While some are plainly of commercial quality, most are serious works containing an expansive gift of enlightenment and self-examination: that very-satisfying "Salinger moment".

JD Salinger Uncollected Stories

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This was the system's great flaw, and it enraged us. A pure meritocracy, we'd discovered, can only promote; it can't legitimize. It can confer success but can't grant knighthood. For that it needs a class beyond itself: the high-born genealogical peerage that aptitude testing was created to supplant with a cast of brainy up-and-comers. But we still needed to impress them: the wasp New Englanders with weekend coke habits, well-worn deck shoes, and vaguely leftish politics devised in reaction to their parents' conservatism, to which they'd slowly return as they aged. They didn't have our test scores, but they had style, a charismatic aura of entitlement, and V and I were desperate for a piece of it.

A pure meritocracy, we'd discovered, can only promote; it can't legitimize. It can confer success but can't grant knighthood. For that it needs a class beyond itself: the high-born genealogical peerage that aptitude testing was created to supplant with a cast of brainy up-and-comers. But we still needed to impress them: the wasp New Englanders with weekend coke habits, well-worn deck shoes, and vaguely leftish politics devised in reaction to their parents' conservatism, to which they'd slowly return as they aged. They didn't have our test scores, but they had style, a charismatic aura of entitlement, and V and I were desperate for a piece of it.

Percentile is destiny in America. That's why we're here: we all showed aptitude. Aptitude for showing aptitude, mainly. That's what they wanted, so that's what we delivered. A talent for nothing, but a knack for everything. Nobody told us it wouldn't be enough. I'd never bothered to contemplate the moment when the quest for trophies would end and the game of trading on them would begin. Once, I'd had nowhere to go but up. Now, it seemed, I had nowhere to go at all.

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A collection of photos of people who left. Wonderful, astonishing, inspiring.

odlična prezentacija, solidne fotografije. Biografije malo nerviraju (ovo bi mnogo bolje bilo kao anonimni projekat...)

Helps students think of cool fun new story subjects

login to the new bookmark website to post new stories

need to ask for videos to be opened for teachers on district...

I've seen Signed Stories bouncing around the blogosphere and Twittersphere for a few weeks now, but only recently have I had time to explore it. Signed Stories is a provider of free videos featuring children's stories accompanied by subtitles and sign language. All of the stories feature someone signing the story (in British Sign Language). In addition to sign language many of the stories also offer subtitles. The videos on Signed Stories are organized into seven themes. With the exception of the Baby and Toddler section the stories are not categorized by age. Although every video is free, because many of the stories and images are copyrighted, Signed Stories videos cannot be downloaded or embedded into other sites

Free videos featuring children's stories with subtitles and signed in British Sign Language.

a provider of free videos featuring children's stories accompanied by subtitles and sign language. All of the stories feature someone signing the story (in British Sign Language). In addition to sign language many of the stories also offer subtitles. The videos on Signed Stories are organized into seven themes. With the exception of the Baby and Toddler section the stories are not categorized by age. Although every video is free, because many of the stories and images are copyrighted, Signed Stories videos cannot be downloaded or embedded into other sites

A cool way of telling a digital story via google searches. Looks like it could be a good tool to use with students.

Creatore automatico di video basato sulle ricerche di google

Fun for spending time with grandchildren

new stories for children, read by children

Write me a story: Kids read (and vote on their favorite) and write short stories on this kid-friendly site

Use the prompts to write your own story online and submit it. It might be published the next week!

students can practice their writing skills, stretch their imaginations, read fun stories, and maybe even get published on the Internet! Each week students are challenged to write a story using a preselected character, place, and prop. Five stories are randomly selected each week and showcased in the Web site’s Stunningly Stupendous Stories section the next week.

Students can write their own stories and comment on other students writing

Each week this site gives a character, place and prop and asks you to create a short story.

"The Orphan is a non-profit, biannual, web-only entity devoted to demolishing literary preconceptions."

literary/ arts webzine

The Orphan is incomplete, unpublishable, moloch-less, disrespected, bizarre and roundly rejected.

Weird analogy but some useful points.

pretty decent article on how to win the internets.

hip cookies. "Much like social media, choc chip cookies are made up of five key ingredients," he e

Some of us know what hitting the front page of Digg can do: send 20,000 - 200,000+ clicks through to a site. Some of us have even felt the blessing (or curse, depending on how you look at it) of the Digg Effect. But how much do you know about integrating social media, specifically Digg, into your site, and what the benefits of doing so can bring to publishers?

1. Sharing: If you love something, set it free 2. Integration: Don’t try to do everything yourself 3. People: People who know: ROFLCopter, LMAO, PWND, Noob 4. Platform: One to one is now one to many 5. Authenticity: Stay true to your core competency

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Kids storybooks read aloud.