I was reminded about the coming date of the S.C. Book Festival from ColumbiaBookSeller.com’s post.   If you live anywhere near Columbia and love books I encourage you to visit.  It is well run and provides a great literary experience.  In addition to seeing new (and old) books, meeting authors and attending seminars it is just [...]

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ResearchBuzz.org introduced me to a ‘Huge Online Database of Blueprints‘.

I found it interesting and am going to send it to my high school’s CTE (career & technical education) teachers.  The drafting teacher in particular may be interested in it.   Budding artists may also be interested.  There are blueprints of:

cars
motorcycles
trucks
ships
buses
WWI airplanes
WWII airplanes
modern airplanes
tanks
weapons
science fiction
humans
phones
misc.

http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/

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The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press released a survey of opinion on the 2000-2009 decade.   The report was presented under the title:  ‘Current Decade Rates as Worst in 50 Years: Internet. Cell Phones Are Changes for the Better’. http://people-press.org/report/573/#prc-jumpDecember%2021,%202009
Princeton Survey Research Associates International conducted telephone interviews for survey purposes.   The [...]

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I learned about GoogleLab’s ‘Living Stories’ collaboration project with the New York Times and the Washington Post via ResearchBuzz.  I see great potential in this application.  Is this the new RSS Reader?  The new Wikipedia?   To understand ‘Living Stories’ watch the brief video on the page.
Currently, the following TIMELY stories are included:

Health Care Reform

Afghanistan War

Global [...]

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The New York Times had an interesting essay called, ‘Steal These Books’.  To quote:
‘With the recession, shoplifting is on the rise, according to booksellers. At BookPeople in Austin, Tex., the rate of theft has increased to approximately one book per hour.’
You won’t believe what the most frequently stolen book is! 
Read on….http://www.nytimes.com

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‘No’
‘I’m done with that!’
‘Nada!’
‘Not going to do it!’
‘No More!’
‘Sorry, no way!’
‘Love to, but…!’
‘I’ll be glad to tell you how to get started but I won’t create it.’

These are but a few responses I might give to someone who asked me to create a Website.  I’ve done plenty of them in the past but have worked [...]

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As they say, ‘Necessity if the mother of invention’…
I woke up this morning and wanted to create my almost daily ‘peanut butter on Ritz crackers’ breakfast (no comments, please).  However, I discovered we were out of peanut butter.  Kind of hard to make this breakfast without peanut butter!  SO….I decided to give making homemade peanut [...]

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I spent quite a bit of the day trying to figure out if our school’s security and communication Motorola two-way radios were UHF or VHS.   For some reason the district needed to know but no one had a clue how to find out.  Here is the answer!  Of course, I did a Google search [...]

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Math lovers might enjoy the Webpage mentioned on Infosthetics.com, ‘Visualizing Prime Numbers’. 

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One of our teachers in my school was wanting some good material to teach a lesson on the Panama Canal.  I set off looking for materials and enjoyed the journey!  The Panama Canal is fascinating to me.  Here are some of the resources that I found (that weren’t blocked at my school - ex. YouTube [...]

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