I'm making a magazine (for a class), and one of the articles is about video game addictions. I wanted something that stood out for the title page, and I found this great little image. I used parts of it (pieces of the image, as well as the exact color) to make the title page image. [more inside]
posted by ismaelsobek on Apr 28, 2009 - 5 answers

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." What's the original source for this quote? [more inside]
posted by joe lisboa on Apr 12, 2009 - 5 answers

Can you identify this photo of a precocious little girl curled up with the Foucault Reader? [more inside]
posted by EL-O-ESS on Nov 12, 2007 - 5 answers

Is there a correct way to attribute images used under the Creative Commons system? [more inside]
posted by Ulleskelf on Feb 14, 2007 - 2 answers

What is the sources of this quote attributed to Dostoevsky? "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." [more inside]
posted by Stauf on Oct 27, 2006 - 8 answers

I am writing a book - a non-academic, non-fiction book. I am using lots of academic materials as sources, and generally I simply mention the source in the text when I am quoting directly - or summarizing an original idea contained in the source (I use footnotes when the attribution requires more info and interrupts the flow of the story I am telling.) I am, of course, especially concerned with the issue of plagiarism - I am keeping my notes tidy, attributing as above, and otherwise following the various rules I've read in the different handbooks for academic writing I've studied. But here are two questions.... [more inside]
posted by soulbarn on Aug 25, 2006 - 11 answers

I've been accused of something I didn't do: passing off someone's photograph as my own in a publication I write for. What's the best way to refute this, and how can I keep it from happening again? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Aug 16, 2006 - 22 answers

Context, please. This quote resurfaces from time to time, often as a back-handed commentary toward the left, but never with a source or any surrounding text: "Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms." It is attributed to Aristotle, but which work (if any)?
posted by grabbingsand on Sep 24, 2004 - 6 answers