Monthly Archive for January, 2008

Iron Man’s Adventure

I pretty much have to post this. It’s 3 short computer animated videos featuring Iron Man on marvelkids.com. The clips are pretty awesome and put virtually all other Marvel animations to shame. Iron Man suiting up is particularly cool.

It’s going to be a big year for Tony Stark!

Out of the office

I will be out of the office for three weeks. I’ll be going on vacation to Peru and Ecuador where I will be hiking to Machu Picchu, visiting some wild Catholic churches, riding on dangerous 20 hour bus rides, lounging on Pacific Ocean beaches, meeting komono dragons and climbing volcanoes.

Will bring back endangered turtles for everyone!

Barack Obama Speaks the day before Martin Luther King Day

Braille Graffiti

Braille Graffiti - I know you are wondering what graf for the blind looks like. But what does it _feel_ like?!

Why is Peggy the nickname for Margaret?

Why is Peggy the nickname for Margaret? What?!

Sensual Seduction

Check out this 70s throwback Snoop video. Also, it features Snoop on a keytar.

Fortune Cookies

Solving a Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside a Cookie Jennifer 8. Lee on the not so Chinese origins of the fortune cookie.

What do cell phone reception bars mean?

Ask MeFi: What do cell phone reception bars mean? Short answer: They tell you half the information about whether you can make phone calls.

DJ Sara and DJ Ryusei

They are only 8 and 5 years old, but man are they cute!

Weird thought

This sort of struck me: The “Millenial Generation“, roughly refers to those born between 1982 and 2002. The largest of this group, born between 1989 and 1990 will be entering first-year university in September.

Asian American Students and School Stereotypes

Jay Mathews - Asian American Students and School Stereotypes
“What she describes is not a cabal of brainiacs trying to steal all the academic glory from their non-Asian competitors, but a collection of industrious and ambitious American teenagers trying to emulate their equally achievement-oriented white classmates, while society and government shove them into an artificial group called “Asians and Pacific Islanders” on the census forms.”