Secret Life of Bees – the Movie

Oct 17th – mark it on your calendars. The movie opens in theaters with a great cast.
Dakota Fanning (Lily)
Queen Latifah (August)
Jennifer Hudson (Rosaleen)
Alicia Keys (June)
Sophie Okonedo (May)
Paul Bettany (T. Ray)
Tristan Wilds (Zach)
I think Dakota Fanning is an excellent choice for the lead. A great little actress and most likely will do Lily proud. [...]

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The Free Rice Game

This is a great way to learn vocabulary while helping someone else. Bookmark this page and come back to it every day and not only will you begin to sound like you have more brains than you really do , but you will also be helping a lot of very needy people. [...]

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If you get the chance, check out Annik Ruben’s Slow German Podcast.  I’m trying to brush up on my German that I haven’t used much in the past 30 years and this is a marvelous tool.  It ranks way up there amongst my favorite podcasts.  Her voice is great, the pace is right, the topics [...]

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The Customer is Not Always Right

I got a kick out of this post from Violent Acres . Working daily with the public, I can identify. You might be taken aback a bit by the language (doubtful in today’s world, of course), but in this case, the customer who deems themselves as “always right” deserves a few choice words, me [...]

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Hilary and Obama

Watched the debate tonight on ABC.  Finally got down to some serious discussions after wasting about an hour on ridiculous crap such as whether Obama wears an American Flag pin or the weary diatribe on Reverend Wright or Hilary’s dodging sniper bullets.  Some may find this to be the determining factors in their choice of [...]

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Trackbacks

I must admit that I’ve been long confused about exactly how trackbacks work. So I finally decided to “Google” it and came across this excellent tutorial. Thought this might help those of you, who like me, were equally confused.

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Die Verwandlung

I had to throw in that catchy title to get your attention. (Plus I had to practice my German a bit!). This is a very cool adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis done by Peter Kuper.

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The Saga of the Alley Cat

Here’s a marvelous web site which will touch the hearts of all cat lovers.  A very nice web presentation by Sarah and Knox.
Alley Cats : Urban Tails

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PicLens

Every now and then a very cool browser plug-in comes along and causes one to say “Wow!”. Piclens is one of those plug-ins.  Available for IE, Firefox and Safari.  I’ll say no more – just check it out and give it a whirl and then let me know in the comments what you think of [...]

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Earth Album

Just wanted to post a link to a wonderful web site for those of you who are curious about the world around you. Check out Earth Album
But don’t blame me if you spend the next 3 hours traveling the world.

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