Our pal’s brother, Jay DeMerit, has overcome seemingly impossible odds, triumphantly making it to the big time: JOHANNESBURG  On an unlikely United States national soccer team, there is no more unlikely player than defender Jay DeMerit, whose nickname is Rags to Riches and whose adventurous career path to the Confederations Cup involved van rides…
Category: history
Joie de vivre
I read this today in the Business Insider: A new survey from UBS has shown that the French continue to work the least amount of hours per year in the world. Once again, the French have blown away the competition. People work an average of 1,902 hours per year in the surveyed cities but they…
Boston
Things Wikipedia teaches us about Boston: It’s the capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the US. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial “Capital of New England”….
satellite browser
NASA hopes we enjoy J-Track 3-D. Clicking on the thumbnail below or here or there will activate JTrack3D and it will appear in its own window and begin loading a database of over 900 satellites. What you will see (presuming the system you’re on supports Java) is a plot in 3-dimensions showing the position of…
walking on the moon
was turned onto this today via @edtechleader:
one example of a music video
surely most of you have seen this before but i still watch it from time-to-time:
Frankie : 3 weeks
Puppy! This is Frankie, Meta’s little sister. She turned 3 weeks old today. Same mother and father, too. Frankie will be joining us soon. Reposted from metapup.com = c
Linux on your celli? Yes plz
Nokia decided to put aside its favorite S60 platform and switch to Maemo, which is all another way of saying that they ditched S60 for Linux. We like that and so should you. For one, the browser is pretty stable, and it supports flash, video and applets. No more harrumphing when the iPhone loads a…
Remembering the contributions of Phil Dodds
Mark Oehlert, an acquaintance of mine via Twitter, turned me onto his friend Phil Dodds, who turns out was not only in the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but contributed a great deal to our culture in his short life, including, but not limited to, SCORM: From Wikipedia: He was the chief architect…
Using Nature as a Hitman
The World War 1 Tyrolean Avalanches 1916-1918 Avalanches were used as highly effective weapons during World War 1. This disastrous weapon started when lot’s of snow fell in the Alp’s during the December of 1916. People could tell that the avalanche risk was high. A big avalanche killed 250 soldiers while tumbling down on the…
DavenSarah’s pad de la rad
Welp, our dear pals DavenSarah [yes, it’s usually pronounced as one word] have at last found, bid on and acquired the perfect home back in our old neighborhood of Seattle. Congratulations!!! The place is suhweeeeet to say the very least. Once you two get your hands on it and in it, no doubt the rad-factor…
Cranies (sic)
I received one of the most beautiful SMS’s ever today. Is that how we say SMS in the plural? Doesn’t really matter. Case in point: “I received one of the most beautiful SMS’s ever today.” It was from my father, who’s never cared much about his spelling, only about the message: Cheers, Pop. Happy Birthday,…
Sing for Joy
Thanks, Frank. = c
Harvey Milk : Human Rights Champion
From Wikipedia: Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Politics and gay activism were not Milk’s early interests; he did not feel the need…
3G vs 3Gs : Video Comparison
Some of us have been capturing video since the beginning via Cycorder on the 2g. The 3G had little or no differences in its capabilities from the 2G. That isn’t the case with the 3Gs. First, there is a distinct advantage to the 3Gs due to its frame-rate capabilities. 30fps beats the snot out of…
Wind Power Will Save Us All
Wind power has already sparked a clean energy revolution, however, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science finds that wind power could provide for the entire world’s current and future energy needs. In order to estimate something like the planet’s capacity for this, researchers first sectioned Earth into areas of…
My Body is a Cage : revisited
Win’s voice is nearly shot in this footage taken from Glastonbury in 2007, but the song doesn’t lose any of its momentous meaning: “My Body Is A Cage” My body is a cage that keeps me From dancing with the one I love But my mind holds the key My body is a cage that…
Time-lapse
Seems I spend a lot of time shooting, watching and seeking out good examples of time-lapse photography. It moves me. It puts me in a mindset somewhat more aware of the passing of time. I like the way it makes me feel small. That perspective is something I crave. Naturally, I like learning more about…
Do YOU Drink Wilkins?
If only commercials were still as cool as these for Wilkins Coffee – thanks to Pierre for the tip – made my day : )
Pay them and they will come
For just a moment there, I thought I’d misread the thing. The article stated something about teachers making $125,000 a year and I had to stop what I was doing because some pals and I have agreed with this approach for years. Same as in most any other field, it’s often the pay scale that…
Barca Championship 2009 Highlights
A pal and I watched the game from Brit’s Pub in downtown MPLS yesterday where the ratio was easily 3:1 United to Barca fans. The first few minutes of the game were controlled by United and thus their fans looked on us with dominance. We thought, “Oh, no”. But then, Barca suddenly and collectively began…
Why is there buttock stabbing in Rome?
QUESTION: Why is there buttock stabbing in Rome? Manchester United fans are in Rome for the Champions League final. When English teams have visited the Italian capital in recent years there have been a string of fans stabbed in the buttocks by hooligans. But why do they target the backside? Other than the fact that…