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My 11 year old is going to buy one of these. With his own money.
Remember your first music player? Was it as cool as this?
I think this makes good sense for a lot of people (like me). I think it could replace a laptop for my purposes. But not anytime soon.
The old AdSense revenue trickle isn’t all that helpful (4¢ today! Woo hoo!). And my other paying work is pretty limited.
Your result for Howard Gardner’s Eight Types of Intelligence Test…
“This area has to do with vision and spatial judgment. People with strong visual-spatial intelligence are typically very good at visualizing and mentally manipulating objects. They have a strong visual memory and are often artistically inclined. Those with visual-spatial intelligence also generally have a very good sense of direction and may also have very good hand-eye coordination, although this is normally seen as a characteristic of the bodily-kinesthetic intelligence.
Careers which suit those with this intelligence include artists, engineers, and architects.” (Wikipedia)
Take Howard Gardner’s Eight Types of Intelligence Test at HelloQuizzy
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TBogg » Cat’s in the the cradle and the bun’s in the oven :
If Todd Palin spent half as much of his time being involved in his kids lives as he spent stalking Mike Wooten and harassing his wife’s staff, Bristol Palin might be planning on attending her high school’s winter formal instead of preparing to give birth to Puck Jesus Palin-Johnston on Christmas Day
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Interesting idea: creativity, restraint . . . . the results should be interesting.
Deadline: 31st December 2008 – You have plenty of time, read on.
– Subject: It is hard to use only one word for that so:
– Description of the Subject:
Each contestant will shoot on a 120 roll using the 6×4.5 format. Two subsequent frames of the roll, although shot at a different place and with several days difference must tell a story. Any story… No words, no titles, no descriptions or hints. Shhh…. you must let each judge/member/guest think of their own one
I’m Joe, and I live in New York City. I also really love Polaroids. Polaroid has recently announced that they are discontinuing their instant film. Although sadly inevitable, I regret that more people didn’t get a chance to appreciate the unique quality of Polaroids. So, I decided to start a project. For a few dollars, I will send you a Polaroid of anything anywhere in New York City. I don’t already have these stocked up – each one will be taken just for you. You will have the only copy in the entire world of a picture that was taken by someone else for you and you alone. That means way more than any other medium or method of exchange – there is a solitary, tangible record of a single moment in time shared by two strangers. I’m not doing this for money. The prices cover the film, postage, train fare, etc. It’s about interaction, distance, moments in time and most importantly the most awesome photographic medium ever. So, here are some Polaroids you can have:
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And so what makes Microsoft’s new “I’m a PC” commercials so jaw-droppingly bad is that they’re not countering Apple’s message, but instead they’re reinforcing it. That the spots themselves jump between dozens of different people who “are” PCs, that the spots make a point of emphasizing that there are a billion Windows-running PCs worldwide, this only emphasizes that “PC” is not a brand name but a generic.
This is what advertising is about — making you the consumer want the New Improved thing, with Whiter Whites/Scrubbing Bubbles/Moxie. All this campaign does is try to convince you that generic is OK, that wanting the common denominator is acceptable. What next? Airbrushing out Vista from product lineup shots? Have you seen Bob lately?
This isn’t someone I want to have the nuclear launch codes.
Details have emerged about how Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s email account was broken into, including a hacker’s claim he was able to impersonate her online to obtain her password.
The hacker guessed that Alaska’s governor had met her husband in high school, and knew Palin’s date of birth and home Zip code.
Using those details, the hacker tricked Yahoo’s service into assigning a new password, “popcorn” for Palin’s email account, according to a chronology of the crime published on the website where the hacking was first revealed.
[From How hackers broke into Palin’s email – News – Builder AU]
So where do you live, in the map of Patchwork Nation?
Campaign 2008: Patchwork Nation: Comunity Types > Monied ‘Burbs | The Christian Science Monitor:
The Monied ‘Burbs consist of 304 counties holding more than 84 million people, making them the largest and the wealthiest locales in Patchwork Nation.
Wealthier and slightly younger than America as a whole, this group also stands out for its educational attainment. More than one-quarter of the adults in these communities have college degrees, compared with 17 percent in the average U.S. county. The Monied ‘Burbs were an uber “battleground” group in 2004. They split their votes almost evenly between President Bush (49.4 percent) and John Kerry (49.6 percent) and figure to be crucial in 2008 as well.
The Monied ‘Burbs and their politics are represented by Los Alamos, N.M., in Patchwork Nation.
If “educational attainment” is the hallmark of this group, why the $%^&* did half of them vote for Bush in 2004?
This makes more sense than the Red vs Blue state map, since these patchwork elements are more likely to map onto voting precincts.
Continue reading “9 nations, meet 11 representative communities”
RTWT, as they say.
I am a Survivor of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001.
[From Memories Of Two Towers Struck Down « Intersections In Real Time]