Daily Archives: June 23, 2003

Better Late than Never Dept.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Former "Baywatch" beauty Pamela Anderson is making her animation debut as a superhero who dances in a strip club, but she demanded and received a no-nudity clause for her cartoon alter ego.

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Lonesome Cowboy

Ronald Reagan wasn’t a cowboy. He was a guy who played a cowboy who later became president. George W. Bush is a guy playing Ronald Reagan playing a cowboy who later became president… Interesting rebuttal to the “Bush is a … Continue reading

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Weblogs for Use with ESL Classes

The purpose of this paper is to introduce three ways that weblogs can be used to support ESL classroom learning. An interesting research paper by Aaron Patric Campbell of Ryukoku University (Seta, Japan)

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Like Xerox, Google has become a Verb

Of course, Google is the #1 search engine.  But it is so, so much more.  Like typing in a phone number and finding who it belongs to, or translations into many languages, or searching only one site, any site in … Continue reading

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Booby Hatch PC Meltdown

Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah, made a rather spectacular fool of himself last week during a hearing on electronic data piracy. Too bad for Hatch, but good clean fun for any technology writer who enjoys asking the question: “Can … Continue reading

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