Flickr has more than 4bn photographs. An option in Advanced Search allows you to limit your search to Creative Commons licence images only, which can be used for various purposes, within the limits of the licence.
Tag Galaxy works on the principle of a 'galaxy' of images which create different 'planets' of images. Visually appealing and great fun to use.
Behold searches more than 1,000,000 high quality images from Flickr within the Creative Commons collection. It uses both aesthetic and technical quality indicators so so you don't have to sift through hundreds of photos to find a good one.
Panoramio is a geographical image search engine. Choose your place (e.g. London, Oxford Street, new York) and Panoramio will display images from that location, superimposed on a Google map.
Seeklogo database has more than 200,000 images available for viewing and downloading. Straightforward and easy to use if you need a logo.
CoverBrowser searches through the covers of comics, books, DVDs, games, music and movie posters to find images. With over 455,000 illustrations, you can search by keyword, title, colour or artist. This is a sister site to VintageAd.
VintageAd contains over 123,000 advertisements, arranged chronologically - with some going back to the early 1800s.
Phil Bradley in CILIP Update, July 2011
Monday, 11 May 2015
Friday, 8 May 2015
Stamp Out Sexism
Everydaysexism.com is a website set up by Laura Bates, where women can upload their experiences so that people would start to see the connections and the bigger picture.
The website states: The Everyday Sexism Project exists to catalogue instances of sexism experienced by women on a day to day basis. They might be serious or minor, outrageously offensive or so niggling and normalised that you don’t even feel able to protest.
The Everyday Sexism project aims to take a step towards gender equality, by proving wrong those who tell women that they can’t complain because we are equal. It is a place to record stories of sexism faced on a daily basis, by ordinary women, in ordinary places. To show that sexism exists in abundance in the UK workplace and that it is very far from being a problem we no longer need to discuss. To provoke responses so numerous and wide-ranging that the problem becomes impossible to ignore. To report the way you have been treated, even if it has not been taken seriously elsewhere. To stand up and say ‘this isn’t right’, even if it isn’t big or outrageous or shocking. Even if you’ve got used to thinking that it is ‘just the way things are’.
Women who complain about disrespectful comments being made to female members in the House of Commons are accused of ‘overreacting’, yet only 22% of MPs are female. Those who object to the sexist portrayal of women in the media are branded ‘killjoys’, yet nearly 70% of speaking parts in Hollywood films are taken by men, (though female characters are five times more likely to strip down to sexy clothing.) Women who object to the over-sexualisation of female celebrities are told ‘it’s a choice’, yet it is almost impossible to think of a modern female singer who hasn’t bared all. Women are told that modern ‘equality’ means career girls can have their cake and eat it, yet only around 13% of FTSE 100 corporate board members are female.
We are encouraged to celebrate the advance of women into the cockpit, yet Ryanair still releases an all-female nude calendar and Virgin flight attendants go to work every day on a plane emblazoned with a cleavage baring, swimsuit clad caricature. We simply aren’t living in an equal society, but we are blasted for ‘whining’ or ‘not knowing how lucky we are’ if we try to point it out.
The website states: The Everyday Sexism Project exists to catalogue instances of sexism experienced by women on a day to day basis. They might be serious or minor, outrageously offensive or so niggling and normalised that you don’t even feel able to protest.
The Everyday Sexism project aims to take a step towards gender equality, by proving wrong those who tell women that they can’t complain because we are equal. It is a place to record stories of sexism faced on a daily basis, by ordinary women, in ordinary places. To show that sexism exists in abundance in the UK workplace and that it is very far from being a problem we no longer need to discuss. To provoke responses so numerous and wide-ranging that the problem becomes impossible to ignore. To report the way you have been treated, even if it has not been taken seriously elsewhere. To stand up and say ‘this isn’t right’, even if it isn’t big or outrageous or shocking. Even if you’ve got used to thinking that it is ‘just the way things are’.
Women who complain about disrespectful comments being made to female members in the House of Commons are accused of ‘overreacting’, yet only 22% of MPs are female. Those who object to the sexist portrayal of women in the media are branded ‘killjoys’, yet nearly 70% of speaking parts in Hollywood films are taken by men, (though female characters are five times more likely to strip down to sexy clothing.) Women who object to the over-sexualisation of female celebrities are told ‘it’s a choice’, yet it is almost impossible to think of a modern female singer who hasn’t bared all. Women are told that modern ‘equality’ means career girls can have their cake and eat it, yet only around 13% of FTSE 100 corporate board members are female.
We are encouraged to celebrate the advance of women into the cockpit, yet Ryanair still releases an all-female nude calendar and Virgin flight attendants go to work every day on a plane emblazoned with a cleavage baring, swimsuit clad caricature. We simply aren’t living in an equal society, but we are blasted for ‘whining’ or ‘not knowing how lucky we are’ if we try to point it out.
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
Simple Way to Lose 1lb a Week
Carol Sarler finally accepted the need to lose weight after a health check showed blood sugar levels close to tipping her into diabetes. Although she had tried diets in the past, this time she decided to lose weight - but nor using a diet. She needed to lose three stones, and aimed to lose 1 pound a week to reach her target weight. So how did she do it?
While she cannot properly tell anybody else how to do it, here are her rules for herself. She didn't count calories or weigh any foods, but relied on more, less and sometimes none. If the pound refused to budge, she would revise the more to less. The none was pragmatism. While some pleasures remained in her eating plan (e.g. butter, Yorkshire pudding, red wine), others were so difficult to restrict that she cut them out entirely (e.g. cheese, beer, sugar). She accepted that food might be dull and repetitive. Breakfasts were usually yoghurt with seeds, nuts and fruit, lunches a small sandwich and dinner a piece of meat of chicken with lots of vegetables. If you try Carol's way, you'll have your own non-negotiables and banishments.
The weight loss is slow, and she as she was doing it for health reasons, she kept track of progress on a BMI chart. Even better was the realisation every now and again that she could do something again that the excess weight had prevented. And clothes started fitting better, then not at all, while her shoe size dropped, her ankles stopped swelling and her puffing stopped.
And having achieved her target weight after 42 weeks, she stopped trying to lose weight. Not a pound has gone back on, as she has retrained her eating habits to a healthier way of eating.
Carol Sarler in Good Housekeeping, April 2014
While she cannot properly tell anybody else how to do it, here are her rules for herself. She didn't count calories or weigh any foods, but relied on more, less and sometimes none. If the pound refused to budge, she would revise the more to less. The none was pragmatism. While some pleasures remained in her eating plan (e.g. butter, Yorkshire pudding, red wine), others were so difficult to restrict that she cut them out entirely (e.g. cheese, beer, sugar). She accepted that food might be dull and repetitive. Breakfasts were usually yoghurt with seeds, nuts and fruit, lunches a small sandwich and dinner a piece of meat of chicken with lots of vegetables. If you try Carol's way, you'll have your own non-negotiables and banishments.
The weight loss is slow, and she as she was doing it for health reasons, she kept track of progress on a BMI chart. Even better was the realisation every now and again that she could do something again that the excess weight had prevented. And clothes started fitting better, then not at all, while her shoe size dropped, her ankles stopped swelling and her puffing stopped.
And having achieved her target weight after 42 weeks, she stopped trying to lose weight. Not a pound has gone back on, as she has retrained her eating habits to a healthier way of eating.
Carol Sarler in Good Housekeeping, April 2014
Monday, 4 May 2015
Exalead Search Engine
You can add some shortcuts to this search engine, allowing you to personalise it. There are some useful advanced search options. You can use:
You can also can narrow searches in a variety of ways - related terms, site types (blogs, forums and non-commercial sites), multimedia, geographical location (by country or region - e.g Euope or Africa). There's also a directory option.
You can use it to search images (with advanced search options for image size, facial content, orientation, filetype, colour/b&w/greyscale.
Phil Bradley in CILIP Update, December 2008
- Word stemming such as 'librar*', phonetic spelling, approximate spelling.
- Proximity searching, nested logic, reguar expressions.
- Search for pages modified before or after a specific date.
- Country / langauge searching.
- Filetype searching.
You can also can narrow searches in a variety of ways - related terms, site types (blogs, forums and non-commercial sites), multimedia, geographical location (by country or region - e.g Euope or Africa). There's also a directory option.
You can use it to search images (with advanced search options for image size, facial content, orientation, filetype, colour/b&w/greyscale.
Phil Bradley in CILIP Update, December 2008
Friday, 1 May 2015
Teen Tips
The teenage years are stressful for the whole family. If you have a teen in the family, try reacting this way if you hear the following.
- They say 'I don't have the money to get there'. You say 'I'll give you a lift'. It gives them a chance to open up on the way (easier than with eye contact).
- They say 'I hate you'. You say - Nothing. Meeting angry outbursts with sympathetic silence gives them a chance to regain control.
- They say 'You don't understand'. You say 'Tell me how you are feeling'. Take them seriously. Don't laugh, or try to rationalise their worries, they need to say them aloud.
- They say 'Here are my results'. You say 'You worked really hard to get these grades'. Don't judge; empower them by praising their efforts instead.
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