The other night, Natalie saw a TV commercial which profiled children who are less fortunate than she is. She retreated to her room, returning a few times to confirm how to spell a few words (we didn’t know what she was working on).
In April of 2003 I had an opportunity with my employer at the time to come to St. John’s, Newfoundland for a six-week project. Aside from a few vacations and business trips, I have never left.
Bono, Edge, Jay-Z and Rihanna performing Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour) live at “Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief.”
Waterboarding has been around since the Spanish Inquisition and has recently been all over the US/World news.
The other day, I tripped over a Lifehacker article which stated that The Simple Dollar was giving away a 50-page eBook.
The ignorance and absurdity of the European Union’s stance on the seal hunt is encapsulated quite nicely in this article from The Economist.
On the drive home today, CBC Radio had a Remembrance Day special on The Canadian Letters & Images Project.
As most are aware, Mayo Clinic is world-renowned for achieving the highest standard of healthcare (they have been recognized for 19 consecutive years as one of America’s Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report).
Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was a well-known Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction (Alice.org) professor at Carnegie Mellon (CMU) who gave his (now famous) “Last Lecture” at CMU on September 18, 2007.