• Grab the nearest book.
  
• Open the book to page 56.
  
• Find the fifth sentence.
  
• Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
  
• Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
  
• Tag five other people to do the same

Then he remembered the dream. The light in the dream. He ( Read more... )

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Your result for The Public Understanding of Scientific Terms and Concepts Test...
100% Understanding!

You scored 100% Understanding.

According to the following website: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind04/c7/fig07-06.htm , the average score of the United States ( Read more... )

Randy Pausch died this morning.

If you don't know who he is: for shame. He taught computer science at Carnegie Mellon and was deeply involved with virtual reality and entertainment software design. He created the Alice project among many other things ( Read more... )

I have a three word review for The Dark Knight:
Go see it.

I've been following the travels of a guy named Matt Harding for about 2 years now. Matt is a former video game developer who decided to take his life savings and go travel for a year.
To keep in touch with his friends and family, he put together the website Where The Hell Is Matt?. After his first trip, he managed to get a sponsorship from Stride ( Read more... )

My thesis went live four minutes early. And it's working.

Rock on.

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Kevin Horrigan ponders America's culture of ignorance (pops).
Sparked by Barack Obama's grown up conversation about race and politics from last Tuesday.
No matter how you feel about Senator Obama as a politician, I hope it can be appreciated that there is growing sentiment to move America away from the cultural kids table.

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