For this week’s Five Things list, I’m going to tell you about five famous gravesites that I’ve visited. Yes, I’m one of those strange people who likes to visit tombstones and pay my respects to long-dead heroes… what can I say?
In cases where there was more than one famous person buried at a particular [...]
I was checking out some celebrity gossip websites earlier today when I read something pretty interesting. It seems that some top 5-star resorts actually go out of their way to comp popular celebrities with free luxury vacations. This is a marketing ploy, of course, as the resorts hope that paparazzi will catch the celebs [...]
We’ve decided to participate in Earth Hour this year, which means that from 8pm to 9pm local time, we’re going to turn off all the lights, televisions, computers, and radios in the house as a gesture towards conserving energy and reducing light pollution.
We’ve got a bunch of candles ready to go, and we’re planning [...]
Today my various web wanderings led me to a site called LumiGram that sells “high-tech clothes”. I didn’t know that that meant, but after a few seconds of browsing and clicking, I learned that this company creates apparel out of items like the threads from inside fiber optic cables!
While I admit that some of [...]
It seems like most of the blogosphere is buzzing with chatter about the launch of Photoshop Express, a free web-based version of Photoshop that Adobe put out in beta today. It’s over at www.photoshop.com/express, and you have to go through a quick registration/verification process to get started.
I registered, and then went in to start playing [...]
With the way the economy is right now, our finances are so tight that we have to keep a very close eye on every cent that we spend. Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed an alarming trend as far as our grocery bills go: we’ve been spending 20-30% more than usual. This is the [...]
Some kids in southwest Washington state found a parachute buried in their yard, and now the FBI is conducting an investigation to see whether or not it possibly belonged to hijacker Dan (DB) Cooper. Cooper, of course, is the man who hijacked a Northwest Orient plane back in 1971, eventually exchanging the passengers for [...]
Overcrowding is a very real problem in America’s public school classrooms today, making it nearly impossible for teachers to provide each child with individual attention. As a result, kids who need extra assistance with certain concepts or subjects aren’t likely to receive that help at school. That’s why more and more parents are turning to [...]