Tanya is an infoholic, linguist, computerjunky, semiotician, feminist, teacher, writer, facebookian, tgifan, dog trainer, typesetter, webmaster, activist and reader. These are just bookmarks with her briefest notes, made searchable. http://www.tanyapretorius.co.za/ 11.29.2010 Christian Faur mimics nature, developing his own systems to express ideas, making the medium and the message appear one. http://www.christianfaur.com/fiber/justPaperII/image4.html 11.29.2010 Klipplaatz Bush Lodge marries print and web nicely, for those who want them to overlap. I'm not usually a fan of this thinking, but this one is good. http://www.klipplaatz.co.za 11.10.10 Gretchen Rubin markets her book The Happiness Project, and does it beautifully and with aplomb. http://www.happiness-project.com/ 10.30.2010 Igor Oleinikov does evocative children's illustrations. The illustrations twanged my imagination. http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2010/07/29/cool-illustrations-for-a-childrens-magazine/ 10.11.2010 List Tarot cards that correspond to Zodiac signs. http://www.tanyapretorius.co.za/content/personal/lists/01 lists.html 09.20.2010 Blurb.com is a self-publishing spot. Print on demand. http://www.blurb.com 09.11.2010 Radio Lab logo is simple http://www.tanyapretorius.co.za/content/art/graphic design.htm#radiolab 08.23.2010 Art of the Photogravure is a comprehensive resource. Pictures from way back to just now, notes on how-to. Be sure to see the sitemap. Elegant site. http://www.photogravure.com 08.23.2010 Fontsquirrel has free commercial-use fonts on a neat, easy website. http://www.fontsquirrel.com/ 08.20.2010 Logo Revue has a whole lot of fabulous logos, I assume they made the logos. All in Polish. See here for the ones I liked. http://www.logorevue.sk 08.02.2010 Kickstarter is a new way to fund and follow creativity. If the project you're backing is successfully funded, your card will be charged when the project reaches its funding deadline. If the project does not reach its funding goal, your card is never charged. It starts with a pledge. http://www.kickstarter.com 08.02.2010 John Currin hints at the natural figure, but exaggerates it. Real. http://www.slate.com/id/2093020/slideshow/2093150/fs/0//entry/2093126/ 07.09.2010 Ethical product advertising: You need a website or blog and a google account. https://www.google.com/adsense/ceupdate-ireland-wiz 07.09.2010 Ethical product advertising: Xilisoft Product advertising. You need internet access and a paypal account. http://www.xilisoft.com/webapp/partime.php?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EARN+MONEY+by+Promoting+Xilisoft! 07.09.2010 Compliment from Susan Hawver. http://www.tanyapretorius.co.za/content/personal/cv/Compliments.htm/ 07.08.2010 PIPWerks for adding clickable transcripts to videos. This system is HTML5, and means plenty of hand coding, but easy. I will probably be waiting for the application. http://pipwerks.com/2010/06/07/for-your-reading-pleasure-easycaptions/ 07.06.2010 100 most beautiful words of all time (2010) includes my favorite word of all time ~ palimpsest ~ so it must be a well-thought-out list. http://www.tanyapretorius.co.za/content/personal/lists/100 most beautiful words.html 07.02.2010 One Large Prawn reimagines 2010 products with 1970's advertising and knowledge. http://www.onelargeprawn.co.za/2010/06/19/alt1977-modern-tech-re-imagined-as-70s-gear/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ALT/1977%3A+Modern+Tech+Re-Imagined+as+70s+Gear 07.02.2010 Project Name Generator is one of those press the button over and over and over addictive things. Also helps get the creative juices flowing to create names for blogs and stuff. http://online-generator.com/name-generator/project-name-generator.php 07.01.2010 Compliment from Mathew Pearce, a student, via Linkedin. http://www.tanyapretorius.co.za/content/personal/cv/Compliments.htm 06.30.2010 Video Lightbox is free software to organise and post video galleries to Facebook, blog or your website by pressing buttons. http://videolightbox.com/ 06.07.2010 Shelby Knox is a feminist activist whose efforts to get comprehensive sex education programs in Texas schools was the subject of the 2005 documentary The Education of Shelby Knox. http://shelbyknox.com 06.03.2010 Adobe Press is a place to ask your Adobe software how-to questions. http://www.adobepress.com/search/search.asp 06.01.2010 Quotations "It's a matter of taking side with the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done." - Harriet Beecher Stowe http://www.tanyapretorius.co.za/content/personal/quotations.html#stoweweak 06.01.2010 Vladimir Kush makes narrative art imaginatively, ideas and stories in fairytale style. Not frivolous, entirely. http://www.vladimirkush.com/editions.php 05.25.2010 The Freelancer’s Toolset: 100 Web Apps is a well-organised and selected list of apps. Love the way it's set out ready for Linky. http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/post/the-freelancers-toolset-100-web-apps-for-everything-you-will-possibly-need/ 05.25.2010 Skitch for Mac only is a fully editable screenshot programme. Write on your shots and save them to your personalised skitch URL where they give you further URLs to post everywhere and anywhere. Image saving and note making. Naming, commenting, describing keeps it organised. http://skitch.com/ 05.24.2010 100+ Google tips, tricks and goodies you actually need in your day. And learn to search. http://www.eternalcode.com/100-google-tricks-that-will-save-you-time-in-school/ 05.24.2010 Marc and Angel Hack Life offers a list of 40 places to learn something every day. http://www.marcandangel.com/2010/05/24/top-40-useful-sites-to-learn-new-skills/ 05.19.2010 The Tyee is a beautiful news site, lots of links but nicely organised and visually appealing. http://thetyee.ca/ 05.19.2010 SaveFace - Facebook Privacy Restore is a button you drag onto your bookmarks bar, log into Facebook, press the button, and your privacy settings are ALL set to Friends Only - note - not Friends of Friends or anything else. http://www3.untangle.com/saveface/ 05.19.2010 Rabid Gremlin Facebook Privacy Check Use this program to check what information about you Facebook releases publicly. Currently, on my profile, Facebook is realeasing status updates from friends who are allowing their status updates to be public, and releasing all sorts of things about my friends who have not asked for privacy. And nothing about me except my name and photo. And… FYI - I checked out Rabid Gremlin who are offering this tool... they are cool. http://www.rabidgremlin.com/fbprivacy/ 05.19.2010 Profile Watch Facebook Privacy Check zooms in on the specific things you are exposing. In list form, a clear picture, itemized of what you may want to delete off your Facebook profile. http://www.profilewatch.org/ 04.28.2010 StumbleUpon.com ~ Instead of surfing in a linear way, surf via other people's interests and recommendations. Stumble over, stumble upon and stumble together. http://www.linkedin.com/share?viewLink=&sid=s19931257&url=http%3A//lnkd.in/zah7Ku&urlhash=tGe_&uid=8c56dae7-aa98-47a6-b5ee-b32a7b8fe916&trk=NUS_UNIU_SHARE-title 04.26.2010 George Bernard Shaw says people who say it can't be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. http://www.tanyapretorius.co.za/content/personal/quotations.html#shawpeople 04.20.2010 Harvard Crimson has a staff opinion section. On the day I passed by they were talking about refusing bribes, and on another note, arresting the pope. . http://www.thecrimson.com/section/opinion/ 04.20.2010 Crimethinc is positioned against the tyranny of the modern world, where desire is normalised into consumption and beauty is crushed underfoot as fodder for the empty cycles of grey hegemonists, our aim is wakefulness. Our enemy is dreamless sleep. Activists. Eloquent Activists. http://www.crimethinc.co.za/site/ 03.06.2010 Mousehand Self-publish your book in South Africa. It would belong to you and not the publishing house. http://www.mousehand.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=28&Itemid=48 03.31.2010 Headfood is the logo of the foodshop at Vega. Ooh it was fabulous. Thai and Wraps and brilliant cuppacino. Sigh. http://www.tanyapretorius.co.za/content/art/graphic design.htm#head 01.28.2010 Compliments from the Business Manager at Johnnic Communications http://www.tanyapretorius.co.za/content/personal/cv/Compliments.htm#silkedtr 12.03.2009 Google Insights for Search allows you to compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, time frames and properties. http://www.google.com/insights/search/# 09.11.22.2009 Jonathan Harris' artwork We Feel Fine explores meaning given to concepts by collecting references to them on the internet. A visual and interactive exploration. http://www.wefeelfine.org/ 11.03.2009 Twitter, yes. http://twitter.com/fetsiboomsticks 11.03.2009 Tweetstats for @fetsiboomsticks. http://tweetstats.com/graphs/fetsiboomsticks#tcloud 11.03.2009 Twitterers who tweet twice are more likely to become long-term twitterers http://usagewatch.org/detail.php?idcat=5&id=138 09.17.2009 Richard Dawkins on militant atheism on TED (ideas worth spreading). http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/richard_dawkins_on_militant_atheism.html 09.17.2009 Richard Dawkins' lament for Douglas Adams. http://www.tanyapretorius.co.za/content/personal/people/a-i/douglas adams.htm#lament 09.16.2009 Just a small collection by a blogger called Nik. http://my.mmoabc.com/article/Nik88/4210/Beautifully-Painted-Optical-Illusions.html?login=no 08.20.2009 Mate-poaching, men do it more looking for long and short-term relationships http://www.tanyapretorius.co.za/content/infoholism/statistics.htm#matepoach 09.22.2009 Chris Diedericks' art is radical, so of course I love it. It's detailed, it's symbolic, it's challenging, it's full frontal, in-your-face, cock-loving challenge from first glance to terrified exit. Great self-promotion site. Wink. http://www.chrisdiedericks.co.za/content/exColdSweat/coldSweat12.html