Even good men make the wrong decision sometimes, but evil men are always right.
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Posted in Gaming on Apr 30th, 2007
(Reuters) Children typically spend hours in front of a computer so a Canadian university has decided to introduce them to Shakespeare with a video game. While zapping enemy spaceships players have to help recover the stolen text of Romeo and Juliet by memorizing lines from the famous play, learning facts about Shakespeare’s life and devising [...]
Posted in Mobile on Apr 29th, 2007
Just driving by but does the slogan…
“Bloom where you’re planted.”
Sound appealing for a retirement community?
Posted in Environment, Science on Apr 27th, 2007
(Science Daily) Researchers have identified potential culprits behind the wide-spread catastrophic death of honey bees around North America and Europe. A team of scientists from Edgewood Chemical Biological Center and University of California San Francisco identified both a virus and a parasite that are likely behind the recent sudden die-off of honey-bee colonies. Using a [...]
Posted in Bush on Apr 26th, 2007
(Associated Press) Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she has already answered the questions she has been subpoenaed to answer before a congressional committee and suggested she is not inclined to comply with the order. Rice said she would respond by mail to questions from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the [...]
Posted in Mobile on Apr 23rd, 2007
Ever do something stupid while doing something good or brilliant? Makes you wonder if its self-destructive or simply a lack of maturity on one’s part. Hopefully its fixable and forgivable.
Posted in Journal on Apr 23rd, 2007
In honor of Shakespeare’s (celebrated) birthday, I told a client who’s service area includes the town of the same name in Ohio to “Bear thee hence to Mantua!”. I’m afraid the humor was either lost on her or never present in the first place.
Posted in Environment on Apr 22nd, 2007
Home Depot is giving away 1 million compact fluorescent light bulbs today (in store only).
http://www6.homedepot.com/ecooptions/index.html
Posted in Journal on Apr 19th, 2007
Between work and the other “Project” my poor blog has turned into a wasteland.
Posted in Outdoors, Technology on Apr 13th, 2007
Mystech: I won’t have a chance to review this until after the weekend, but it looks promising…
(GoogleBlog) Many of you reading this may already know that Trimble Outdoors has partnered with Google to provide Google Earth viewers with GPS-based interactive hiking information. We’re very excited about being able to share all the great GPS content [...]
I love the way Popular Science rates their How2.0 articles; from “Safe” to “Crazy”. Safe tends to involve things like DVD/HDTV connection instructions, while Crazy ranges up to Basement Nuclear Reactors. I imagine someone out there with a sense of technical karma has built a Nuclear Powered DVD Player in their basement.
There are several dozen [...]
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