Handwriting is increasingly something people do only when they need to make a note to themselves rather than communicate with others. Students accustomed to using computers to write at home have a hard time seeing the relevance of hours of practicing cursive handwriting. West Virginia’s largest school system, for example, teaches cursive only in the [...]
September 21, 2009
Google loves to slip in-jokes and hidden features known as “easter eggs” into its products. Here are 15 of our favourites. 1) Google Reader ninja Probably the finest – and certainly the most childish – Google easter egg. Using the arrow keys, type “up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A” while using [...]
September 21, 2009
A former school teacher announced at a Texas Education Agency hearing that she is a 56-year-old virgin. She thought she was testifying at a hearing about sex education. She wasn’t. The woman, apparently hoping to impress upon the agency that you can teach kids to get sexy without taking their clothes off — for which [...]
September 21, 2009
When a white supremacist group VNN Vanguard Nazi/KKK tried to host a hate rally in Knoxville, Tennessee, they were foiled…by clowns! The 100th ARA (Anti Racist Action) clown block joyfully disrupted the KKK spectacle. Alex Linder the founder of VNN and the lead organizer of the rally kicked off events by rushing the clowns in [...]
September 21, 2009
Asia seems to be a mecca for weirdness, and Hong Kong Fashion Week for Spring/Summer 2010, one of Asia’s largest fashion events, is an excellent example. The show recently took place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. This annual event is a meeting point for designers and manufacturers from all parts of Asia [...]
September 21, 2009
I found the following “ad” on the web this morning and could not wait to get the information posted. As Mercury is only in retrograde through Sept. 29, it may still be possible to purchase in time. Apparently this spray will both counteract and enhance the effects, which seems to me to be the same [...]
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