All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly.

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GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala – A 330-foot-deep sinkhole killed at least two teenagers as it swallowed about a dozen homes early Friday and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people in a crowded Guatemala City neighborhood. Officials blamed the sinkhole on recent rains and an underground sewage flow from a ruptured main.

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sometimes the earth does open up and swallow people….

English Ballad Archive, 1500-1800:
“Dedicated to mounting online extant ballads published in English from 1500-1800, the English Department’s Early Modern Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara has begun by archiving the over 1,800 ballads in the Samuel Pepys collection. Thanks go to the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, for granting us unprecedented permission to archive their ballad holding. Additional thanks go to the NEH for generously awarding the EMC’s proposal requesting $325,000 over the course of the next two years (2006-2008) to complete its Pepys Ballad Archive”
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I know some people that might be interested in this, so i’ll blog it.

About « Pratt-SILS Independent Student Blog:
Over the past few months (and perhaps years) people in the SILS community have been discussing the possibility of an alternative to the sils-announce listserv.
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The school of information and library science students started a blog.

Your results:
You are Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)

Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) 90% Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic) 60% Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command) 55% Derrial Book (Shepherd) 50% River (Stowaway) 50% Alliance 45% Jayne Cobb (Mercenary) 45% Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) 35% Wash (Ship Pilot) 30% A Reaver (Cannibal) 20% Inara Serra (Companion) 10%

Honest and a defender of the innocent. You sometimes make mistakes in judgment but you are generally good and would protect your crew from harm.

Click here to take the Serenity Personality Quiz

5 Freaky Muppet Videos:
The Muppets exploded into worldwide popularity in the 1970s as regular performers on Sesame Street. But as pop culture changed, Jim Henson and his company found even stranger creatures to parody by mingling with real-world celebrities. The five-year run of The Muppet Show set the weird tone for a tradition they’ve continued to this day. These 5 online videos show what a long strange trip it’s been.
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some funny and strange stuff…

Crazy hours becoming the new standard -
Forbes.com – MSNBC.com
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Just how bad have things gotten? That’s the subject of Extreme Jobs: The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek, a recent study from the Center for Work-Life Policy. The study found that 1.7 million people consider their jobs and their work hours extreme, thanks to globalization, BlackBerries, corporate expectations and their own Type A personalities.

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if you give up the 40 hour work week… you are betraying a long tradition that many people fought very hard to establish.

Easy Graphical Multiplication Trick Video:
How to transform a multiplication into a simple counting ofpoints through the drawing of a square shape

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very cool

UNIX® Load Average Part 1: How It Works
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Have you ever wondered how those three little numbers that appear in the UNIX®
load average (LA) report are calculated?

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a bit of interesting info.

Serendipity strikes again:
A brilliant wee story of serendipity to get you started this morning from one of my favourite eduBuzz blogs at Pencaitland Primary School. A few weeks ago the kids had been blogging about the diving experiment they had been up to in class and this got picked up by a real life diver (and clearly part-time blog-reader). She came in to the school with her diving kit and showed the kids what it was like for real. It’s all been captured in the blog and the brill Bubbleshare photostory below. I’m sure for the kids and teachers that alone is enough motivation to keep blogging about their classroom exploits for the next term, and it’s great to see that the guidelines and positive policy we put together with the help of everyone in the Authority have helped open our classrooms’ walls.

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To me, this is how blogs should benefit communities and schools, by bringing people together with similar interests and ideas, to explore and discover the relations amongst people and their interests, both in society and nature.

Useless account:
Best recent web 2.o spoof: Useless Account. Sign up for a shiny new account that does absolutely nothing, but in a way that totally shifts some serious paradigm!