FastStone Capture

FastStone Capture is a very handy (and free)screen capture utility that allows you to capture all or parts of screens (also scrolling screens), and save, edit and add captions to the images. Very neat..get it at http://www.faststone.org/

Images of American Political History

This is a good source for digital images of American political history. "About this site" information is scanty, but it appears to be the work of Dr. William J. Ball of the Dept. of Political Science at the College of New Jersey. The search feature doesn't seem to be working, but you can find lots of images by browsing by era or by special topic. The noble intent of the site is "to support the teaching of American political history by providing quick access to uncopyrighted images for inclusion in teaching materials. All images are strongly believed to be in the public domain. They were obtained from non-copyrighted U.S. government holdings and publications and from published works with clearly expired copyrights. Thus there are absolutely no restrictions on their use."

More photo stuff

Here's a tip from Marylaine Block's Neat New Stuff: "everystockphoto.com is a search engine for creative commons photos, located in Vancouver, BC. We aim to be a community for designers, developers, photographers and other media publishers who want better, easier access to license-specific media on the web."

Once you've found a good photo, have some fun with Polaroidinizer - you just enter the url of the image, add a text, and Polaroid-o-nizer produces a signed snapshot like the one on the right. Polaroidonizer can also be used for more legitimate purposes, e.g. promotion of embassy/irc events, email invitations, or personalized photos for thank-you notes the Ambassador wishes to send to people he/she has met.