"When I’m president, we’ll do executive orders to
overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other
day," Gephardt said.
Can this be an accurate quote? It did come from a [...]
Here’s some more fallout from the Chinese “espionage” case involving accused double agent Katrina Leung and her FBI handler-lover David Smith. The FBI has removed Daniel Sayner as the head of the Los Angeles Counterintelligence office and put him back on street duty for his part in the affair.
From the “L.A. Times spy [...]
When it comes to communicating with a computer, children find it just as easy to use an interactive soft toy as a mouse, according to new research sponsored by the ESRC. This research is published today as a part of the ESRC’s Social Science Week.
One of the abiding mysteries and polemics in Anthropology and Earth Science has
long been the almost simultaneous appearance of agriculture in the Middle East,
South America, and China, among other areas. It seems to me the answer is simple;
climate
stability.
A Karaoke ESL lesson from GenkiEnglish.com. You can download
the song (mp3)
To see it in action, click on "See
the song in action: Click here" (Duh)
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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 [...]
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 Cowboy” argument
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)
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
[...]
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 [...]