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Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns
Ken Burns does for jazz what he's already done for the Civil War and baseball: present a vivid and compelling video portrait of a purely American cultural artifact. This site is a great starting point for your jazz education. The first of the 10-part PBS documentary airs on Jan. 8, but you can get a preview here. The annotated links page is worth a visit by itself. Check out the biographies, audio samples and the virtual piano to help you learn some basic jazz techniques. Also, there's a large section designed just for kids.

How Much Information?
The world's total yearly production of print, film, optical and magnetic content would require roughly 1.5 billion gigabytes of storage, the equivalent of 250 megabytes per person for each man, woman and child on earth. Here's proof positive that we're suffering from information overload, thanks to a new study, with plenty of charts, from the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley. Magnetic storage is by far the most common medium for storing information, while print documents accounted for only 0.003 percent of the total yearly production of content.

"I Do Solemnly Swear . . ."
Presidential Inaugurations
From the Library of Congress, here's a collection of items from each of the 62 inaugurations from George Washington's in 1789 to Bill Clinton's in 1997, and the site will include items from George W. Bush's inauguration next week. There are diaries and letters of presidents and those who witnessed inaugurations, handwritten drafts of inaugural addresses, broadsides, inaugural tickets and programs, prints, photographs, and sheet music.

Australian Museum Fish Site
By itself, this well designed site is fascinating if you're interested in our finny friends. But it's only part of the Australian Museum's extensive use of the web. The fish site contains a host of resources for students, researchers and the curious, with lots of images, both still and video.

Just Ask
Here are five sites where you can ask questions about virtually any topic, and at some of these sites you can be the expert who provides the answers and keeps the discussion going. All are free.
http://ask.com
http://live.looksmart.com
http://www.askme.com

Love that Technology
This story from Forbes Magazine takes a critical look at computers, technology and the Internet. Conclusion: Critical components of everyday life are far too complicated for average people to operate, and the Internet may be changing us in ways we won't like 10 years from now. The Internet's Unintended Revenge (Forbes)

Movie Time
If the film "Thirteen Days" stirred your interest in recent history, check out the National Security Archive's The Real Thirteen Days: The Hidden History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, where you can view actual photos of Cuban missile installations taken by U-2 spyplanes, hear recordings of White House intelligence briefings, including the voices of President John Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and read translations of the documents exchanged among Kennedy, Castro and Kruschev.

What's hot on the web? At 100hot.com you'll find rankings based on the habits and tendencies of 100,000 web surfers, from whom data is collected each day. Rankings are broken down into 14 categories, including art & culture, business, education, entertainment, gaming, home & garden, jokes, lifestyles, news, shopping, sports & recreation, stars, technology and the 100hot ranking itself, the web's 100 most popular sites overall.

http://www.printworkers.com/
Here's a site for employers and job seekers in the "print, copy, digital and web" industries to find each other. Job seekers may post resumes for free; employers pay $150 to post a job opening for 45 days.

Learn2Type.com
Attention two-fingered keyboard jockeys! Learn 2 Type is a free web site that helps you master the skills of touch-typing. Whether you're an expert typist or a hunt and peck amateur, the interactive exercises you'll find here automatically adjust to your skill level. The better you get, the more challenging the exercises become. You can come and go as you please and pick up right where you left off. Start off with the typing test and see if you can beat this editor's 42 wpm.

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