EleVate Yourself: March 2006

Thursday, March 30, 2006

What the Heck?

The only thing more senseless than a statue of Britney Spears on a bearskin rug is a statue of Britney Spears giving birth on a bearskin rug.

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

42 Really Is The Answer!

It looks like Douglas Adams was right all along! His answer to the Ultimate Question -42- is really the answer to one of the ultimate questions in mathematics. Was it divine intervention that made him think it up? Or mere coincidence?

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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Top Ten Technology disasters

hubris+technology= mucho badness

But the Vasa ship is really cool now that they dredged it up.

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Monday, March 20, 2006

Boy Recovers From "Brain Dead" to Normal Function With Video Game Therapy!

9 year-old boy who was pronounced brain dead is able to catch up with his peers in school through the use of video games and neurofeedback training.

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Bribing a NYTimes Veteran Tech Writer to Get Highly Positive Reviews?!

An interesting article about how a journalist from SFWeekly found out thru a sale's rep about New York Time's David Pogue's free $2700 repair service which he never mentioned in his highly possitive review of the Hard Drive data recovery company "DriveSavers" on NYTimes.com, CBS and NPR!

read more | digg story

Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Kids Build Soybean-Fueled Car

CBS News | Kids Build Soybean-Fueled Car:

A car that can go from zero to 60 in four seconds and get more than 50 miles to the gallon would be enough to pique any driver's interest. So who do we have to thank for it. Ford? GM? Toyota? No — just Victor, David, Cheeseborough, Bruce, and Kosi, five kids from the auto shop program at West Philadelphia High School

The five kids, along with a handful of schoolmates, built the soybean-fueled car as an after-school project. It took them more than a year — rummaging for parts, configuring wires and learning as they went. As teacher Simon Hauger notes, these kids weren't exactly the cream of the academic crop. "

This is really pretty amazing and shows what giving "problem kids" an opportunity can reap.

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