Hm. I just went through and added all my Livejournal Friends to my Google Reader. I haven't been keeping up because I usually just read friends' blogs through Google Reader and Livejournal used to do this annoying truncating of entries and I didn't want to bother clicking over. How lazy, I know ( Read more... )

Part of today's announcement by North Korea (official name: Democratic People's Republic of Korea or DPRK):
The field of scientific research in the DPRK successfully conducted an underground nuclear test under secure conditions on October 9, 2006, at a stirring time when all the people of the country are making a great leap forward in the building ( Read more... )

(Crosspost from my blog)

I had a great pre-birthday weekend. (My birthday is on Wednesday.) My husband Dave threw me a surprise birthday party! He's not the planning type so, as much as I love surprises, I didn't think he would go as large-scale as he did ( Read more... )

(Crosspost from Chanlee's Blog )

I feel so unworthy!

There's more where that came from. Just go to YouTube and search for "Chinese yo yo."

I'm pretty sure both these guys are using diabolos rather than traditional Chinese yo yo's with the plastic axis and hollow drums. The diabolo evolved from the Chinese yo yo after early European ( Read more... )

At my church's 22nd anniversary celebration. I like how the yo yo fades into the background when it's traveling fast enough.

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A linguistics professor was lecturing on the subject of grammatical negatives. "In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive. However, in some other languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn't a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative ( Read more... )

After trying out Gmail for a couple days and testing out Yahoo's beta mail, I switched to Gmail with no regrets. Yahoo's soon-to-be mail service, in beta form, is basically a Microsoft Outlook wannabe. It's slow, cluttered, and still has those annoying ads. No more of that.

I felt so technologically savvy when I looked at PC World's 100 Best ( Read more... )

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The article about people being fired for blogging that scared me half to death ( Read more... )