Thursday, April 15

Today is Thursday of Week 12. Here is a link to Week 12 and also Week 13 for anybody working ahead (always a good strategy!).

Class Procedures and Reminders

Story Lab: Microfictions (repeat announcement). This week is another Story Lab week, and if you haven't tried a microfiction option, I hope you will consider those options. Maybe you will write something you want to contribute to the class anthology; I've seen so many great microfiction stories go by in people's blogs, and I'm sure we could make a good book together like the students did last semester (Fall book). So you can use the Story Lab this week if you want to learn about microfictions or maybe try writing some of your own. (My goal is to put the book together during Weeks 14 and 15 so that it will be ready by the end of the semester.)

Project Stack. If you turned in a project before 9PM on Sunday, you should have comments back from me now, and I will keep working on the Sunday assignments today; I will try to reply to all the Sunday items today. Meanwhile, as always you can check the stack to make sure I received your project.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. And in the spirit of microfiction, here are two great ones from Kenzie in Myth-Folklore: Two More Fictional Stories... one of them is a 25-word hint fiction:

Twitter stream. Check out this super-cool Zodiac Man from History of Astronomy:

In this video you can see the book in action:

An ancient Indian myth showed up in the ACK Twitter stream: The Genderfluid Deity.

Plus Grant Snider has some lovely thoughts about being stuck in a book:

For those of you reading about King Arthur in Myth-Folklore this week, an Arthurian video from Crash Course: Galahad, Perceval, and the Holy Grail.

Something lovely from Molly Hahn at Buddha Doodles:

April 15: da Vinci. Today marks the birthday in the year 1452 of the remarkable Leonardo da Vinci, who was a genius in math, science and engineering, as well as being a famous artist. You can read about his remarkable life and career in Wikipedia. Here's a TED video by Siegfried Woldhek: The Search for the True Face of Da Vinci.

You probably know his "Vitruvian Man," so here's a TED video about that, and Vitruvian Man also has a Wikipedia article of its own:

And then... there is Vitruvian Cat, like this kitchen magnet at CafePress:

Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.