Image via WikipediaAnyone interested in history or is a student of history will appreciate this fantastic website called Teacher Oz's Kingdom of History. What drew me in was a link to Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire." In it, an educator from Texas named Tracey...
Notes while surfing
There is Something Very Wrong With This
Seriously? What happened to respecting our Commander-in-Chief. OMG.
How to Save the News
How to Save the News - Magazine - The Atlantic
Self-Deprecating Advertising? Really?
Advertising sure has come a long way since I went to school. Recently, my husband and I were snickering ourselves silly when we saw a television ad in which the announcer actually said "Call 333-3333* and We'll Pick Up the Phone." In 2002, TrendSpotter reported an...
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Image via WikipediaI've been kind of busy lately, but an article by TechCrunch, a news feed I follow on Google Buzz, prompted me to write.In Find Photos For Your Blog In Three Easy Steps, TechCrunch reported a new startup to help bloggers find art for their columns....
Guido the Geek Performs Hit on Twitter?
Image via WikipediaWhen White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs admitted his Twitter account had been compromised, a host of feelings popped up for me. Having had one of my websites hacked a while back, I thought well if a site as huge as Twitter could have left its...
The Physics of Farm Town
Old hats of the Facebook/MySpace game called Farm Town are familiar with this but its new to me. The geek in me finds it fascinating enough to write about it.I think about all the years' physicists like Stephen Hawking have been working on this and its right there on...
Never to Old to Avoid the Trekkie Redshirt Effect.
I ran across the link for this at Huffington Post. It is hilarious. But, it reminded me of a lesson I'd learned from my teen-aged son. To confess, I never considered myself a Trekkie--sure I loved the series and had seen all of them along with the movies but I wasn't...
Logmein.com
This is a site I'd heard about before, but really had no need for it nor did I want others to have the ability to access my computer. Now that my parents-in-law have bit the bullet and gotten a computer, I have found out the need to be able to see their computer when...