Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. – Maya Angelou

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Category: Miscellaneous

  • Search for a college in interactive 3D

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    Egiate (as in coll-egiate) is the first interactive 3D and Maps-based school search site. Search for schools by name, location, scene, weather, school size, and more. Egiate provides in depth profiles of more than 4800 schools and navigates hundreds in 3D. Uncover your school. Related articles Egiate.com – Take 3D Tours Of Schools All Over…

  • Color Calibrate Your Monitor with Calibrize

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    Image via Wikipedia Want to know how to color calibrate your monitor? Try Calibrize. It will color calibrate your monitor and tweak your Windows settings so you don’t have to do figure them out manually. The application is also portable and can run either on your local hard drive or your memory stick. Related articles…

  • Brains can’t handle all our Facebook friends

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    Image via Wikipedia WE may be able to amass 5,000 friends on Facebook but humans’ brains are capable of managing a maximum of only 150 friendships, a study has found. Robin Dunbar, professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, has conducted research revealing that while social networking sites allow us to maintain more relationships, the…

  • About Danny MacAskill

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    A Stunt Cyclist’s Tour de Fence Published in the NYTimes By CAROL WALLACE Published: December 28, 2009 EDINBURGH — Like his fellow Scot Susan Boyle’s entry into show business, the stunt bicyclist Danny MacAskill can divide his life in two: before his YouTube video and after. Read the entire article on the NYTimes @ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/sports/global/29cyclist.html?_r=1

  • Bigger Screen for a High-Pitched Whine

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    This article was reposted from a great article from Axel Koestler for The New York Times and is archived here so students may read this in class.  Please support the actual newspaper by reading the print copy in my room, the electronic copy online, and check into the related links, videos, directors, etc all on…