Sam Harrelson

Pictures of the Year Gallery posted. A few may be familiar but still very much worth seeing.
The Natural Disaster photos were especially moving given the tragedies over the past year.
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Bush continues to play poll-limbo by seeing how low he can go. 35% is normally the rock bottom, but Bush has managed to enrage enough Republicans with his port scheme to dip below that. Amazing.
(CBS) The latest CBS News poll finds President Bush’s approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34 [...]

Hopefully I can convince Anna to read this site before our trip to Seattle (I love the Seattle flag) in a couple of weeks…
There’s no question: overpacking easily heads the list of biggest travel mistakes. Thus this Web site, offering exhaustive (some might say exhausting) detail on the art of travelling light, living for an [...]

Google Video has some amazing historical videos from the Space Age of the 50’s-60’s, World War II and early 20th century America.  Check out some of these (including my favorite, "The Eagle Has Landed" showing the first moonwalk)…
NARA on Google Video.
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I like #13!
When Benjamin Franklin was 20 years old, he wrote up a 13-point "plan"
for how he would live his life. He found that following the plan
increased his happiness so much that he kept it up for the rest of his
life. 

He committed to giving strict attention to one virtue each week so
after 13 weeks [...]

You all know that I love gadgets.  Here is the possible long-rumored gadget that Microsoft will produce to compete with the iPod called the Origami…
http://www.youtube.com/?v=rV1WGDW37c0
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From the Discovery Channel Online…
Specks of comet dust carried to Earth inside a NASA science probe
show tantalizing hints of organic compounds, bolstering suspicions that
comets delivered key ingredients for the development of life on Earth.

Analysis of the samples brought back last month aboard the Stardust
capsule is in the very early stages, but lead scientist Donald Brownlee
said [...]

After this year, you have:
-4 years of highschool-4 years of college-2-6 years of graduate studies-60-80 years (or so) of continued learning everyday
Not to mention that Mrs. Bruening, Mr. Park and I are always asking you to write papers using sources besides the internet.  Here is a great tool to help you out with that:
The Directory [...]

I’ve always wanted to find a way to make these!
Make a few of your own and if they’re smart and/or funny I’ll post them
http://www.hetemeel.com/einsteinform.php
Hope you had a great weekend and I’ll see you tomorrow!
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Here’s some great info on Romeo and Juliet…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_juliet
It really is a great piece of work and changed my life! Learn to love Shakespeare!!
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