Independent Film Blog

If you’re interested in independent films, here’s a blog full of interesting news, reviews and more.

http://worldfilm.about.com/b/index.htm

Inhabitat- Future-Forward Design For The World You Inhabit

Interested in eco-friendly, sustainable, cool design? Here’s a website from a NYC designer and graduate architecture student who wanted to provide a “forum in which to investigate emerging trends in product, interior and architectural design.”

http://www.inhabitat.com/

Boy Wizard Turns Green

From the Guardian Unlimited in England, an article about publishing the last Harry Potter book with recycled or sustainable paper. Did you know that the last book–The Half Blood Prince, was not printed on recycled paper? The initial printing of 10.8 million copies used up almost 220,000 mature trees. Over 15.6 million copies have been sold in the U.S. alone–that’salottatrees.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/harrypotter/story/0,,2039221,00.html

Time To Get Back Into Your Garden

About.com has a gardening website which provides information and tips for even the most green-thumbed of gardeners.

http://gardening.about.com/

Legal Questions? Problems?

For over 35 years, Nolo has been the go-to source for do-it-yourself legal solutions for work, life and finances. Their website reaches over 10 million people a year. Nolo Podcasts offer a new way for people to get valuable information for free. Some of the many topics covered include: starting a business, buying and selling a house, patenting an invention, maximizing tax deductions, getting compensated for a personal injury, divorce and child custody and credit repair and bankruptcy.

http://www.nolocast.com/

Arts & Letters Daily

Here’s a great site for a daily dose of philosophy, aesthetics, language, literature, art, and much, much more. From The Chronicle Of Higher Education. By the way, their motto: ‘Veritas Odit Moras’ means ‘Truth Hates Delay’.

http://aldaily.com/

Forbes’ 2007 Billionaire List

How many billionaires are there in the world today? Too many, or not enough? Take a look and let us know if you’re on the list–we’ve got our annual appeal running.

http://www.forbes.com/2007/03/07/billionaires-worlds-richest_07billionaires

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March Madness! College Sports And Graduation Rates

On Al Poynter’s ‘Morning Meeting’ page this week he has links to a variety of official studies and reports about college athletic teams–their graduation rates, funding and fundraising and the financial consequences of March Madness including the gambling problems associated with the tournament. The numbers on graduation rates, especially those concerning the disparity between black and white players, are cause for concern. Read more at:

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=119780

Reading Rants!

If you’re a young adult, you have a great resource in this website for lists of suggested books to read—that you’ll actually enjoy. Jennifer Hubert is a YA librarian in New York who loves being able to suggest a book that her young adult patrons will enjoy and be inspired by. She creates theme lists of titles about every 2 months or so. Check this site out if you are a teen or you know one who’s looking for something to read.

http://members.tln.lib.mi.us/~amutch/jen/index.html

Radio Show–This American Life

Hosted by Ira Glass, this is a weekly radio show on topics that aren’t really news but are about things that relate to everyone’s life in some way. There are 10 Public Radio stations in Connecticut that broadcast this show both over the airwaves and online. They have also begun making a half-hour tv program which will begin airing on March 22nd on the Showtime network. You can subscribe to a weekly e-mail announcement about the theme for that week’s show.

http://www.thislife.org/