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pretty cool. http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html

This is one of the better articles I have read to date: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/longtail.html It was in the July 2006 issue of Wired, and the author is Chris Anderson. The article is actually and excerpt from his book "The Long Tail" .  From my humble experience, I think he is right on the ball...but let me know what you think.

if you haven't watched the original BBC version of The Office (the NBC one stars Steve Carell), this is what your missing. In this Microsoft spoof, David Brent (Steve Gervais...the star from the BBC version) is "hired" by Microsoft as a managment consultant... http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=9076288729387457440 http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=959125392868390030">

now this is crazy !  seems like a real live version of the book " The Life of Pi ".  i wonder if they met any meerkats ?! http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=13219695&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews

http://www.cbc.ca/national/ need real player though...but its good for ppl who don't have cable and want to watch the news.

When Jimmy Carter won his Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, I read his speech in the Star and was especially captivated by this line: "War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." Today I found out, he was actually given that line from a 12 year kid who passed away in 2004: http://www.mattieonline.c om/index.htm Pretty impressive...

nicely done parody... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfODSPIYwpQ

http://www.codeproject.com/redir.asp?id=1364 its actually a microsoft sponsored video...

an 8 minute video demonstrating the computer...pretty cool http://www.andycarvin.com/video/100laptop.mov

google video is now a very powerful procastination tool :( http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6063478215160948442

http://www.liberal.ca/ http://ww w.conservative.ca/ http://www.bl ocquebecois.org/ http://www.ndp. ca/ based on website design/usability, i would vote NDP... -the first thing you see on the liberals site, is a form for you to fill out...stalkers! skipping that part, the rest of their site is nothing to rave about. -half of the conservative party's main page is blocked out by firefox's adblocker.  although viewed in IE it looks pretty good, although overloaded with info. -the bloc's site is all in french...they could at least put an english version so potential english voters could sympathize with their cause. -thus by process of elimination, the ndp's colourful and RSS enriched site wins hands down.  it even fits its main page on one screen (no scrolling!).  but i keep wanting to press the big orange "getting results for the ppl" banner thinking its a button.

competition is wonderful! http://maps.yahoo.co m/beta (new!) VS. http://virtualearth.msn.com/ VS. http://maps.google.ca/

online word processor http://www.writely.com/ online spreadsheet http://numsum.com/

a very inspiring music video by Sarah McLachlan

make MUSIC videos! http://www.duke.edu/~gz 9/I-gnition.mpeg http://video.go ogle.com/videoplay?docid=-23975 32802194226883 http://video.goog le.com/videoplay?docid=-6739710 473912337648

if you haven't seen these films already, i highly suggest you do before they take them off the site on Oct. 21.  they are short films produced, directed and acted by some pretty big hollywood names.   one of them even won an award for best short action in the LA film festival. my favourite ones were: star , directed by guy ritchie chosen , directed by ang lee

a toronto star article by John C. Polanyi

   

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/covers_450/9780375726248.jpg its always fun to see what returns when you google your name and aliases...

check it out...the ultimate self learning tool: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html imagine this, the hand cranked $100 computer and primitive but functional wifi networks in 3rd world countries like africa! NOW, imagine the possiblities...