Horsetail Firefall

Horsetail Firefall: "

This photo was made by Rob Kroenert on February 18th 2010 in the Yosemite National Park. Every year during the month of February, the Horsetall Falls turn golden around sunset. Amazing.

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More to be gained from running than physical fitness

This is a blog post from DailyMile Blog.  The writer brings up a very interesting point.  She explains how she developed mentally as much as she did physically through running.

http://www.dailymile.com/blog/uncategorized/developing-self-confidence-through-running-how-i-found-myself-out-on-the-road

Afghan Convoy

In the aftermath of this tragic event it is nice to see that someone is reporting facts and not just out to slander Coalition troops.


Thanks for what you do Starbuck!

15 Awesome Computer Keyboards

15 Awesome Computer Keyboards: "

Virtual Laser Keyboards, Wrist Keyboard, and 13 more. CHECK OUT THE REST HERE.












15 Awesome Computer Keyboards

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Google Voice Goes .MIL

Google Voice Goes .MIL: "

I think it would be a very good idea if this was getting more acknowledgment and attention within the military services, because this is a really cool offering Google has made available to military service members. From the Google Public Policy Blog, Audio Care Packages to Service Members with Google Voice.

For servicemen and women who are constantly on the move, having a single number and an easy way to retrieve messages from loved ones can be invaluable. To help our service members communicate with their loved ones and show our support to those serving our country, Google is launching a new program. Starting today, any active U.S. service member with a .mil email address can sign up for a Google Voice account at www.google.com/militaryinvite and start using the free service within a day.

When you deploy, your life is put on hold. While you live and work in a different world, everyone else moves on with life back home. Your family and friends keep moving, and this sometimes means it’s just not possible for them to stay awake until 2 a.m. to receive a phone call. Calling Iraq or Afghanistan is seldom an option.

Google Voice provides a solution to some of these problems. Service members can set up an account before they deploy. Or if they’re already deployed, families can now set up an account for their service member. Loved ones can call to leave messages throughout the day, and then when that service member visits an Internet trailer, all the messages are right there. It’s like a care package in audio form.

How does it work? Well, a Google phone number is like a regular phone number except instead of being tied to a phone, it is tied to you (think virtually). When someone calls you, they call your Google number and you choose where it rings, whether your office, cell phone, home, Aunt Fannie’s basement, or even that otherwise useless phone unable to make outgoing long distance calls in the shack the LtCol has you hanging out this week. Actually, a Google number is even more flexible than that, because it can ring all your numbers at once if you like, or just specific phones depending upon who is calling!

For example, when my mother-in-law calls it only rings at home, but if my mother calls it will reach my cell phone. Whenever my most annoying, slow paying client calls, I can simply send that call straight to Googe Voicemail so I don’t have to talk to them, then access my voicemail from any phone or even online.

The real advantage for service members is that the Google number will stay the same, tied to you, even as you move around the world not only during a deployment, but throughout a career. Very flexible, and essentially a virtual phone number that allows you to change cell phones, and cell phone services, without worrying about losing your cell phone number as you constantly change service providers.

I think Google has the right idea here inviting military service members as early testers of the service, because military service members represent an ideal group to give them the most mileage for what amounts to free beta testing the Google Voice service. Could end up being a very useful service for the Blackberry officer, given that Google Voice apps for Blackberrys are already available, assuming IT will allow you to have the app on your Blackberry…

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Math Teacher’s April Fools

Math Teacher’s April Fools: "

An awesome prank by a math teacher from Biola University that mixes a pre-edited video with live action. Check it out:

Edit: Here’s another hilarious prank from Professor Matthew Weathers.

[Via Buzzfeed]

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1. Awesome Halloween Math Lecture


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3. Teacher anxiety influences girls view of mathematics

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13 of the Most Abominable Things Done To Poodles

13 of the Most Abominable Things Done To Poodles: "

Like most people I am constantly up on poodle news, what’s going on in the poodle world, who’s who among poodles etc.. It seems national media attention is always on the poodle whether it be a story on poodle scientists or a in depth interview with Joe Lieberman’s poodle “Hadassah”…. Alright most people don’t care about poodles, in fact there are very few people who have seen a glimpse of the breme and bizarre world of poodle breeding. I only stumbled on this touch of insanity when Googling “poodle” for a Photoshop job. I panned quickly through pages of freak poodles before finding a normal looking poodle, realizing along the way that there was an easy phoned in article there. So now without further ado I present you with a parade of poodles made repugnant.

PINK POODLE

Though it looks suspiciously like a rejected Pokemon this one falls on the “normal” side.

PANDLE

Actually kind of cute. Unfortunately as a dog and a panda it can never ever go to China for fear of becoming a delicacy. Okay that is a racist stereotype and a hackneyed joke. I intend to sell it to Jeff Dunham.

RAINBOW POODLE

Rainbow poodle has pride. Though I do not know who the owner is I expect to see Ted Haggard walking one through a San Francisco public park asking for tricks… Both kinds of tricks.

ELVIS POODLE

What better way to show your poodle you love it than shave it to look like the King? Unfortunately much like the real Elvis the poodle also OD’d on a bathroom floor after eating chocolate out of the trash.

CAM-POODLE

Not so bad until of course an Arab midget attempts to mount it. I will resist to urge to make a “poodle toe” joke.

COKE POODLE

Alright this is the poodle I expect to see at all the Hollywood coke parties during the 70’s. It’s like Elton John reincarnated.

SPACE POODLE

Astronomers, Engineers, and Physicists agree… The poodle is perfectly designed for space travel.

THE CUBE-LE

The “cubele” is the most avant garde of the post modernist canine breeds, often can be found running away from Yoko Ono.

DRAGON POODLE

Fear his wrath. I can easily see a 40 year old larper trying this… and then getting yelled at by his mom.

UMMMM..ERRR!?

This one is just disturbing, the healthcare industry should really have picked a less disturbing mascot.

PEACKLE

I almost expect singer Bjork to be pulled to a concert by dogsled with a team of these at it’s head. If you like this idea Bjork I’m totally up for making out.

COCKLE

This is literally Micheal Vick’s wet dream, an animal he can enter into both cock and dog fights.

HORSE POODLE

“You are what you eat” has never been truer than here.

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST I PRESENT TO YOU….. TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA POODLE!

There are really no syllabic words that can describe it.

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A better Radio Station

I have been using Pandora Radio for several years.  I loved it back in the states at work and at home.  Then I got a Blackberry and was even able to get it on my phone.  For those of you that don't know what it is or how it works, it is like a radio station but your the DJ.

The way it works is you pick one or more songs or an artists or an albums or even some combination.  Then the software plays music that matches the characteristics of that song or those that are common among all the choices you made.  you can continue to refine the station in several ways.  you can tell it you LIKE a song and it will play mores songs like that one. You can dislike a song and that song will never play on that station again. And you can say you tell it to skip a song (be careful though, due to licence rights you will only be allow a certain number or skips in an hour) and you can tell it you are tired of a song and it will not play it for a while on that station but it will not remove it like the DISLIKE feature will.

It now also is integrated with Twitter and Facebook among other websites so you can share the stations you have made or tell you friends you like the song you are listening to now.  And the newest feature is you can create a station just for a friend and email it to them.

So if you have not tried it you should.