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buttwhack.com is LIVE! From the site’s about page : “We, here at buttwhack.com, are interested in our collective struggle as human beings to make good choices. As much as we’d like to believe we are always superior beings, the truth of it is we are a race of ups and downs, with the downs often…

Screenshots!

i think it’s cool when geeks post and trade screenshots of workspaces to show off *rad* customizations made to desktop configs, themes, et al. i took this on a mac today and thought i’d post it for posterity : = c

Banned : Nerf in Bowling Green

The University might hamper the second round of BG Undead’s game play after the announcement was made last week to place an immediate ban on the use of Nerf guns on campus. The game, a version of Humans versus Zombies, is still going to be played but it’s going to be more difficult for the…

And So It Goes…

The New York Times warns against the growing use of high-end architecture as a tool for self-promotion? Oh, puhleeeeeze. Our economic SYSTEM is nothing if not a continuing tribute to the low self-esteem of ostentatious wealth, trying to pass itself off as a quiet, behind-the-scenes-type who only has attention drawn to them because, uh, their…

Geek Love

My pal Todd sent an email along with a link to goodreads, a site that let’s you share what books you’re reading/have read with your friends online. a great idea, no doubt. the only problem i have with such things is that i have to remember yet another miserable login for a site that does…

Arrrrrrrgh!!!

it’s not as silly as it sounds : piracy has exploded in the waters near Somalia where this past week US warships have fired on two pirate skiffs and are currently in pursuit of a hijacked Japanese-owned vessel. At least four other ships in the region remain under pirate control and the problem appears to…

Students + Technology = Learning?

The question already seems as old as the hills. Way back in 1998 while i was using technology to wrangle assessments out of high-functioning students with Spectrum Disorders, it was a question as well as it was later on, in Juneau, working for SERRC. and today, the question remains: Does Technology help teachers teach? does…

New clothes for school

The leading supplier of school uniforms in the United Kingdom, Lancashire-based manufacturer Trutex, has announced it is “seriously considering” including GPS tracking devices in future ranges of its uniform products after conducting an online survey of both parents and children. The survey questioned 809 parents and 444 children aged nine to 16. It showed that…

[this is too stunning for a title]

SCIENTISTS claim to have broken the ultimate speed record – by making photons travel faster than light. Exceeding the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second, is supposed to be impossible. According to Einstein’s special theory of relativity, it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate an object through the light barrier. But…

John T. Scopes

John Thomas Scopes (August 3, 1900 – October 21, 1970), a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was charged on May 25, 1925 with violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools. He was in court in a case known as the Scopes Trial. Scopes was born and raised in Paducah, Kentucky,…

WOW : Wrath of the Lich King

For sub.atomic.fusion : In the cold, harsh northlands… The Lich King Arthas has set in motion events that could lead to the extinction of all life on Azeroth. With the armies of the undead and the necromantic power of the plague threatening to sweep across the land, only the mightiest heroes can oppose the Lich…

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Welp, our new lil girl is with us now — we picked her up this weekend : = c

Stung by High Ticket Prices?

At some point concert-going fans are going to have to realize how cheezy it is to buy extra tickets to a show in hopes of making a few bucks off of them on eBay. It is the biggest, hottest and most expensive rock concert tour of the year. But fans — and brokers — trying…