Dustin Kidd

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 ...

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...