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Thanks to everyone who supported the Tibetan Freedom Movement in this year's Facebook Causes Giving Challenge! They came in 7th overall, won $10,500...
In case you're wondering about this because you live outside the United States (I know Vox readers span the globe) - it's baseball World Series time...
Today is Diwali or Dīpāvali - a significant festival in Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism, and today, an official holiday in India. Adherents of th...
I see they dropped the price on the Wii game console. Should I buy one? I there really any true fitness to using this thing? Read and post comments | ...
Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) entered SFT's Facebook Cause - Tibetan Freedom Movement – into this year's Causes Giving Challenge: http://causes.com/sft...
Beatles, Stones and more in the Village, originally uploaded by Brooklyn Bridge Baby. West Village NYC The artist's name is Rico Fonseca . Read...
Ever wondered where the center of America is located? The US Geological Survey says that there really isn't a completely accepted definition of the “geogr...
Valentine's Day Card in Strange Town, originally uploaded by shadowplay. dolls still spook me. clown dolls are REALLY spooky. Read and post comme...
Forbes.com’s list of the top 20 tools that have “most impacted human civilization” (in no particular order) the knife the abacus the compass ...
P8150271, originally uploaded by veronica lola ♡. Jersey Shore in September... ...
ferris light, originally uploaded by Zen Lens. A Ferris wheel (also known as an observation wheel or big wh...
entering the Forest of the Subconscious, originally uploaded by Zen Lens. primitive or otherwise disavowed ...
Post Apocalyptic Playground, originally uploaded by shadowplay. Made me think of Cormac McCarthy's THE ROAD... Read and post comments | ...
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That Cuban girl That brought me She had that skin so fine and red lips rose-like now Her mouth was wide And sweet as well And now relentless hours of d...
Here's the book that inspired the movie. Amazon.com Review Julie & Julia is the story of Julie Powell's attempt to revitalize her marriage, restore her ambition, and sa...
When the Harry Potter author, J. K. Rowling, was asked by the Royal Society of Literature to make reading recommendations, this was her list: Wuthering H...
Alfred Hitchcock liked to do his own film trailers. They don't make them like this anymore. His for The Birds" promo, is also quite droll. Or...
July was originally called Quintilis (from Quintus, meaning “fifth”), but it was renamed by Mark Antony to honor the murdered Julius Caesar, who was born on July 12. ...
Regina Spektor has a new album out called Far - and you can listen to the whole album online (streaming, not a download). Read and post comments | S...
It's bad enough that I often eat my lunch at my office computer. Do we really need this low-fat and high-bandwidth solution to cooking? The George Foreman...
There was a time when a "Gold Record" meant that you had sold a certain number of vinyl albums. Of course, that has changed. I was curious what it means i...
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Great for causing arguments amongst your friends, comes this list from Amazon of the 100 greatest indie rock albums of all time - 1. Bee Thousand by Guided by Voices ...
Princess Marie, Rumania (LOC), originally uploaded by The Library of Congress. Princess Marie, Rumania [no date recorded on caption card] 1 negativ...
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Books Are Good For You, originally uploaded by Threadless Read and post comments | Send to a friend ...
gumballs Originally uploaded by Zen Lens They were once one of my favorite penny candies. Are there ANY penny candies any more? I saw gumballs in a ...
I miss not getting an Easter basket. I miss making them for my kids. (I make one for my mom now, but she's 90.) Has Easter become another holiday where...
Stendhal syndrome (AKA Stendhal's syndrome, Hyperkulturemia, or Florence syndrome) is a psychosomatic illness that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, conf...
Geez, who knew? A half-century mark and no wrinkles, sag, cellulite or gray hair. Sure, she's been blamed for poor self-images and eating di...
If you bought that Kindle, here's what is currently hot in Kindle downloads. Read and post comments | Send to a friend ...
Is there anything left that Amazon.com doesn't sell? It seems like they have become the superstore of the web. Anyone who...
The new version of the KINDLE book reader is out. With a sleek and thin design that makes Kindle 2 as thin as a typical magazine and lighter than a paperback, the new Ki...
No, not the Illuminati (who will be getting some press again this May when the film version of Angels and Demons is released) This is The Aleuminati- a [not so] secre...
Good ol' Michel de Nostredame (AKA Nostradamus) was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies. The best known is Les P...
A Journal of Marketing study found that people watching sad movies tended to c...
Amazon now has a Game Downloads store where you can download games to your PC and play instantly. This new service allows you access to over 600 games priced at $9.99 or...
Instructions For Wayfarers They will declare: Every journey has been taken. You shall respond: I have not been to see myself. They will insist: Everything has been...
Yeah, I'm totally with him about clowns Read and post comments | Send to a friend
I thought the Super Bowl commercials were generally lousy. But I still like the babies... Read and post comments | Send to a friend ...
Here's what is new in Ronkville today. Read and post comments | Send...
"What does he mean," I asked, "the humanistic values implicit in the physical sciences?" "You ask him," my father said. "Maybe he knows. Maybe down deep...
Has YouTube jumped the shark? When the Pope has a YouTube channel, you know it is officially mainstream. Why is the Pope doing this? Check out this sho...
megacity - term used by the United Nations for cities or metropolitan areas with more than 10 million people. Projected growth: Megacity country pop. 2003 (mil) est...
1979 - Andy Warhol buys a broadcast-quality camera and starts playing around with television "programs" for Manhattan public access cable channels. "An...
I like this list. Check out the full post at http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2009/01/zen-jazz-creativity-lessons-from-the-art-of-jazz-part-...
Americans were asked to choose their favorite architectural works from a list of 248 notable structures nominated by the AIA. The top 10 are: 1 Em...
Professor Trevor Cox, an acoustics expert at Salford University, spent a year researching the world’s worst sounds. He posted clips of 34 objectionable noises online, wh...
Amazon.com is featuring a "Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions" event. A lot of the top resolutions are there - losing weight, getting in shape, curbing bad habits, getting or...
My own UFO. http://thinkgeek.com/a5b0 Read and post comments | Send to a friend
A person who works six hours a day but with total focus has an enormous advantage over a 12-hour-per-day workaholic who's "multi-tasking" all day, answering every phone c...
John Lennon is back to promote One Laptop Per Child. That's the group that is working to bring cheap computers and internet access to children in developin...
I no longer use this blog space.My main blog on learning and technology is Serendipity35 at http://dl.njit.edu/serendipityand there are links to most of my blogs and online activities at http://ron...
Some books I have read, am reading, want to read. Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra playing new arrangements of Thelonious Monk’s sturdy and still invigorating compositions. Adding to the...
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We are more likely to experience depression than our parents were. Blame our automated, online world? How about the reduced physical effort we make to survive? Neurosc...
Start a kid out early on the musical road by reading him Forever Young. It's a children's book based on the Bob Dylan song from 1974 with illustrations...
Let suddenness happen! A philosophy I can get with... Read and post comments | Send to a friend ...
ronk53 posted a photo: Still guarding the plants even under a new snowfall.
Get your own version of Charlie Brown's pathetic (but heartwarmingly needy) Christmas tree. This one is 18" - which is still bigger than it looked on TV...
Did you know that you can use the high tech of NORAD to track Santa's journey around the world? The NORAD Tracks Santa Web site is a kind of public relations effort ...
I like that this Google thing is old-style (well, 1980's at least). Free stickers - and you have to send a real envelope, with real postage and a real add...
According to author Malcolm Gladwell (via an interview on GoodReads), you will only reach a level of mastery if you are willing to devote essentially 10 years (10,000 ho...
Reading this post will change who you are. Not because it's such a great post, but because you are always changing and reading this will alter who you are in some way. ...
Reading this post will change who you are. Not because it's such a great post, but because you are always changing and reading this will alter who you are in some way. ...
CALL FOR ACTION People of Rosebud & Pine Ridge Reservations in Need of Emergency Assistance Following Severe Blizzard & Weather Conditions Children, Elderly, Disab...
In 1982, when Barack Obama was a 19-year-old student at Occidental College, he had 2 poems published in the spring issue of the school's literary mag...
Like the Van Gogh video I posted earlier, this video morph is a series of paintings by Picasso. from Philip Scott Johnson Read and post comments | S...
Back on the diet to try to get down to my pre-vacation in the Bahamas weight, and I have been craving chocolate - and I me...
ronk53 posted a photo: Justin snags the snake that has been hiding in the fireplace
Facebook has announced that it now stores 10 billion photographs uploaded by its members. It stores each photo in four different sizes, so really it's 40 billion image. ...
I know it's just some morphing software that merges one portrait over the other based on the position of the head - but it's cool. Read and post comments ...
ronk53 posted a photo: I suppose it's not the same Praying Mantis that comes back every year to that bush, but it must be a relative.
An investigation by the Sun revealed that over 23.4m litres of water are poured down the drains of 10,000 Starbucks outlets worldwide due to a policy of keeping a tap ru...
Whoa. The National Debt Clock (you knew we had one, right?) didn't have enough room to fit in the new amount of debt the United States has - I guess it's like a 13th hour...
4 and a half minutes of it - who knew Microsoft plans to hire 155 "gurus" by the end of the year to work in Circuit City, Best Buy and other retailers to help customer...
I loved SEINFELD. I'm OK with Windows. (I'm OK with a Mac too.) But what is this commercial all about? Jerry got $10 million for this? Then, he IS a geniu...
Have you had a chance to use one of Amazon.com’s revolutionary wireless reading devices - the Kindle? They now has more than 160,000 books, plus top news...
The Finnish photographer Kari Kuukka has posted a very cool panoramic view of Beijing’s Olympics Stadium, The shot is from men’s 100m final, when Usain Bolt electrified ...
Amazon is offering a special up to 50% off sale on select Blu-ray titles from now until August 29 while supplies last. What's Blu-Ray anyway, you ask?...
The Coen Brothers' film, The Big Lebowski, has developed a cult following. It...
The Recording Industry Association of America claimed a big victory when they got their first and only win over a piracy ...
"Truth is our only weapon," the Dalai Lama always says. Make sure you're well equipped to support this non-violent movement for Tibetan rights by ...
My lifelong friend, Dan Grigsby, has been doing music forever. From our baseme...
If you are a Harry Potter fan or love someone who is a fan, you should ...
It's not even August yet and I'm already seeing TV commercials and store ads for Back To School sales! Though parents may...
Well, you might have one with bigger wishes, but on Amazon.com, you can create one for shopping. It's kind of like being ...
It seems a bit early to be thinking Christmas holidays, and that's the time I ...
"A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats." ANON ...
Do you use Technorati? What is Technorati, you ask? From their site: Technorati is currently tracking 112.8 million ...
Replay, a novel by Ken Grimwood - In the first chapter, the main character, a 43-year-old man, sits at his desk and drops...
The New Writer's Handbook: Volume 2: A Practical Anthology of Best Advice for Your Craft and Career by Philip Martin (Editor), with a preface by Ted Kooser. The...
Bloggers often pull or take images from other blogs or websites and perhaps do not give much thought to the copyright on those images. Part of that cavalie...
Fray is the web's original personal storytelling site, sharing true stories online and off for over a decade. They have evolved into a printed book serie...
Dubai sounds pretty interesting. In the video below, you can see a dynamic building designed by David Fisher. The buildin...
Author Michael Pollan wondered: Do plants use humans as much as we use them? It's coevolution. And he wrote a book looking at the natural world from th...
Amazon.com new feature to help customers discover music called Artist Stores. They have launched over 60,000 Artist Stores at Amazon Music, across all genres. I found a...
Students are now applying the tools used to download music and movies that have caused so many legal problems (and the collapse of the record industry, ...
An installation art project debuted in late June that has turned New York City’s historical harbor into a waterfall attraction for tourists, as four ...
Do something good for the world while you are online today... Click on the links below- There's no obligation, no login, ...
I first encountered Winwood in 1966 when "Gimme Some Lovin'" was released by the Spencer Davis Group. Steve left the next year to form Traffic which was one of THE transf...
You think web pages like Yahoo! look busy? Check out this very popular site from China: http://www.qq.com Read and post comments | Send to a friend ...
Futurist Ray Kurzweil suggests that we, as a society, are heading toward a moment of singularity. When the singularity occurs,machines will become self-a...
I have been noticing more and more informal meetups developing at the fringes of formal conferences. You attend a conference and discover that special interest groups are getting together less for...
Lou Costello Statue, originally uploaded by Gene O'Neill. Cianci Street, Paterson, NJ at Costello Park (Cianci and Ellison Sts., a few blocks from the Great Fal...
Paterson Great Falls, originally uploaded by maspiazu. I walk here at lunch time some days through the carnival of Paterson streets and amongst the ghost though...
Since you are a blog reader and online now, the chances are good that you are a higher technology user than the average person. You have a cell phone, computer (probably...
I'm trying to make some sense of social networks and making a profit from them. Someone is doing it. How? First, some numbers... MySpace Membership...
I invite you to do some good for the world while you are online today. All you have to do is click on a few links. No obligation. No cost to you, other than a few moments...
I listened to the radio program To The Best of Our Knowledge this past weekend (you can listen online and subscribe to the podcast version - I advise you...
I'm reprinting this email I received about the situation in Tibet. At least, become informed about the situation, and if you can, help by doing any of the suggestions pro...
ronk53 posted a photo: playing around with the tool at bighugelabs.com/flickr/motivator.php
There are many "charities" that you might turn to during this holiday season. One I chose to write about this Thanksgiving Day has a strong web connection and an interesting approach to the idea of...
This blog has gone through several iterations for me.Originally (before it was eduspaces, when this was elgg) I signed up because of the mentions I saw to it on Moodle sites as a blogging tool.Sin...
DON'T Google my web page? Who would want that? If you have a website or a blog you WANT all the search engines to find your pages and index them. You want to be found, so that others can find you. ...
imported from my "real" blog at http://devel2.njit.edu/serendipity/ Chris Lehmann wrote a post a few days ago which referenced two other bloggers which often introduces me to other educators onli...
The last updates to my iTunes U schools linklist appears on my Serendipity35 blog on educational technology.As of May 30, 2007, Apple has put iTunes U into the main iTunes "store" beginning with 16...
It has been 40 years since the "Summer of Love" in 1967 when a cultural focus turned to the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco and words like hippies ...
I have been using this space to pull from my actual blogging spot at http://devel2.njit.edu/serendipity/ which is my EdTech blog called Serendipity35.I started using Elgg just to see what it could ...
http://devel2.njit.edu/serendipity/index.php?/archives/311-Boo If you want to explore social bookmarking, you can add some bookmarklets to your browser's links bar so that with a click you can ad...
http://devel2.njit.edu/serendipity/index.php?/archives/310-Wha The Educational Testing Service (ETS) has changed the name of its ICT test (information & communication technology). This is a test ...
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