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15 Essential Web Tools for Students

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Josh Catone at Mashable creates a Back to School guide with 15 Essential Web Tools for Students. This handy list of the best apps for students is organized into the following categories:

  • Stay Organized
  • Study Better
  • Work and Collaborate
  • Cite Right

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it's just a plant

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It's Just a Plant is an illustrated children's book about marijuana. It follows the journey of a young girl as she learns about the plant from a diverse cast of characters including her parents, a local farmer, a doctor, and a police officer.

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Davenport: Free Country

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Thou Shall Be Walking & Taking On The Rails
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"We've been loving Davenport for a good long while now, but they were one of those bands who hovered ghostlike in the world of ultra limited cd-r's and limited-to-50-copies lathe cuts and thus we were never able to get more than a few copies of any of their records until now. Free Country is the first proper cd release we've had from this gorgeously mysterious outfit and the title couldn't more perfectly reflect the music inside. Completely free country, loosed from the restraints of typical twang and instead posessing some haunting otherworldly magic, occupying an impossible space somewhere between Jackie-O-Motherfucker, Scott Tuma, the No Neck Blues Band, Souled American, Avarus, Smithsonian Folkways and all of the wraith like purveyors of whir and drone we dig so much. This is still, somehow, some bizarre strain of country music, but it's filtered through foresty folk and free noise and tribal clatter and all the other stuff that informs what is sometimes referred to now as new weird America. It's really hard to describe. Nashville via Finland via the American Southwest maybe? Harry Smith's Anthology of abstract free folk and minimal country? Drone country? They all hint at the sweet mystery of this record but fall just short of truly describing how fucking beautiful it really is. Free Country is a series of dark, droning, sweetly melancholic sonic abstracts, all cobbled together from warm washes of organ, swirls of tone generators and simple muted percussive thumps, skittery casios and simple twangy guitar melodies, keening fiddles, grizzled old-blues-guy vocal samples, smears of impossibly lovely ambience, stretches of whispery almost-krautrock like rhythms, delicate piano tinkle and blurry synthesizer squiggle, mumbled sad boy vocals all marble mouthed and introspective (sounding a bit like This Heat vocals), streaks of fuzz guitar and plenty of reverb and delay and a production that deftly manges to combine outdoorsy campfire whispiness with big cavernous throb, making every thing sound warm and dense but airy and free, like a thick cloud of steam when you first open the door of a hot shower, the melodies and fragments of song smeared and indistinct, quickly fading as if drawn on a fogged up mirror with your finger. Gorgeous."
--Aquarius Records

 

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