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Lessons for improving search on Google

1. Use the ~ symbol in front of a word to let google include similar words in the search. ~cheap will also look for affordable, budget, etc. 2. Use the - to exclude a word from the search. fun music -kei$ha will exclude Kei$ha from the findings. 3. Use an elipsis (...) to indicate a range. $100...$300 will yield a price range for a given item. 4. Use 'site:' to search a particular website. 'Glee site:nytimes.com' will yield all articles on Glee (or glee) from the Times. 5. Use 'filetype:' to find a particular kind of document. I often want to save myself some work for class by using other people's pdfs of book chapters. So I can type in: 'McChesney US Media filetype:pdf' to find someone else's scan. 6. Use 'define' before a term to let Google generate a definition for you, rather than having to click through various dictionary sites. 7. Enter tracking numbers for FedEx, USPS, and UPS and other delivery services directly into Google

Spiral Q: The Mission

Today begins the Cardboard to Courage Campaign at Spiral Q . Please visit the website and donate $10-$100 to support this fantastic community. Spiral Q's mission: Spiral Q builds strong and equitable communities characterized by joy, creativity, can-do attitudes, and the courage to act on their convictions. To be very clear, Spiral Q doesn't make puppets or any other kind of art object. Spiral Q builds communities first and foremost. Art happens along the way, but it never takes the form of a static object. Art is a living breathing process and at Spiral Q building art and building community are the same process. Spiral Q takes for granted the fact that all humans are naturally creative expressive beings and we all long to tell our stories--be they personal memoirs, creative fictions, lived poems, or community documentaries. I love that joy is at the heart of Spiral Q's mission, right there in the middle of the sentence. Every social movement, every project for change