I love this website! It allows you to catalog your books. It also lists other users who own the book and lets you view their entire collection and/or contact them. The message boards, book groups, and book suggestions are especially informative and fun. You may catalog up to 200 of your books for free. After that you must pay $10 a year or $25 for a lifetime membership. For more information or to browse through my book collection, check out their website www.LibraryThing.com. Search for debmarcotte (all one word) to find my collection. I listed 173 children’s books, over 100 of them were purchased at Tower Records when they went out of business. I’m still playing catch-up on reading them. Currently, my “top five faves” are:

1. A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
2. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
3. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
4. A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
5. The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble

Curtis claims to have assembled all-but-conclusive electronic evidence that Phillips has tried to hack into Fark’s servers, potentially breaking several laws.

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It started with Dance Dance Revolution, that unusual video game that gets kids to drop their joy sticks, get off the couch and gyrate Now it’s Fisher Price’s Smart Cycle, a stationary bike for the 3-to-5-year-old set that combines aerobic pedaling with educational video games. The gaming industry is making kool to be fit

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I found this interesting article at Dumb Little Man’s site and thought it was worth a little attention!

You know, I see articles like this and generally they are common sense. Don’t eat fast food, no ice cream, etc.

But in this case, I was impressed and frankly enough so that I am going to make a commitment to try at least half of these foods.
As it turns out, NONE of these have hit my taste buds.
Here is a quick list of healthy foods no one is eating.

It was published by Men’s Health:

Guava
Swiss Chard
Cinnamon
Purslane
Pomegranate juice
Goji Berries
Dried Plums
Pumpkin seeds - Hey, eat these every Halloween. I load them with salt but..
Beets
Cabbage
They go through each of these foods and tell you why they’re healthy and how to eat them (recipes).

Check it out if you are up for a change.

The 10 Best Foods you Aren’t Eating by Men’s Health

Looks like Google has entered the fast moving energy drink market….

At Google our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it useful and accessible to our users. But any piece of information’s usefulness derives, to a depressing degree, from the cognitive ability of the user who’s using it. That’s why we’re pleased to announce Google Gulp (BETA)™ with Auto-Drink™ (LIMITED RELEASE), a line of “smart drinks” designed to maximize your surfing efficiency by making you more intelligent, and less thirsty.

Or maybe it’s just all in fun????

Google Gulp and Your Privacy
From time to time, in order to improve Google Gulp’s usefulness for our users, Google Gulp will send packets of data related to your usage of this product from a wireless transmitter embedded in the base of your Google Gulp bottle to the GulpPlex™, a heavily guarded, massively parallel server farm whose location is known only to Eric Schmidt, who carries its GPS coordinates on a 64-bit-encrypted smart card locked in a stainless-steel briefcase handcuffed to his right wrist. No personally identifiable information of any kind related to your consumption of Google Gulp or any other current or future Google Foods product will ever be given, sold, bartered, auctioned off, tossed into a late-night poker pot, or otherwise transferred in any way to any untrustworthy third party, ever, we swear. See our Privacy Policy.

This is a wonderful story of William Kamkwamba a young man from Malawi, that built his first windmill when he was only 15.

The windmill now powers lights for 3 rooms and a light over his family’s porch outside.

They also use it to power his family’s two radios and charge mobile phones that the neighbors have.

Click the link and visit his remarkable blog

Badmouth.net gives this movie a 4 star rating making this a must see ..

Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Charlie Cox, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert DeNiro, Claire Danes

Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation of Stardust, the ten-year-old fairy tale written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Charles Vess, takes the best of that magical adventure and shakes it up a little for movie audiences. It’s a remarkable and rare adaptation in which the essential story is preserved, and the deviations are an improvement for the cinematic presentation read more of this review at ………Stardust 2007 » Badmouth

I installed an old drive into a new computer and couldn’t access some of the directories!

Our friends at Tutorial Ninjas posted this:

Having troubles opening files up in Vista? Chances are this is because you migrated from Windows XP and it locked you out of its files when you upgraded. Well this is a very easy fix just:

1. Download this file
2. Unzip the File and run the file: InstallTakeOwnership.reg
3. Right click on the file or folder you couldn’t access and click Take Ownership!

If for whatever reason you wish to remove this option just run the RemoveTakeOwnership.reg file!