Taylor Accident update: This is unbelievable.

Laura VanRyn: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 1:00 pm

I'm still trying to decide if I am awake or dreaming.

2008 presidential candidates

I'm adding another tab to netvibes for the 2008 presidential elections. I'm going to start now and keep myself very informed on who's running and what they're talking about. If you know of any good sites to add, let me know. Two sites I'm adding are
http://thenextprez.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://www.ovaloffice2008.com/atom.xml
I have no idea if either have good info yet. I'm also adding blogs that some of the potential candidates keep, like Barack Obama's blog.
http://obama.senate.gov/blog/index.xml

Thoughts? Ideas?

Do Not Resuscitate!

Dyersville, Ia. — Eighty-year-old Mary Wohlford has informed family members of her wishes should she ever become incapacitated. She also has signed a living will that hangs on the side of her refrigerator.

But the retired nurse and great-grandmother now believes she has removed all potential for confusion.

She had the words "DO NOT RESUSCITATE" tattooed on her chest.
The rest of the story...

YouTube - We are MuKappa

YouTube - We are MuKappa
Here's a video some kids made in my class. I thought it was cool that they put it up on You Tube.
--Jeff

The Hype Machine

Hey,
I put something new in our links to the right...you may need to scroll down a little. It's a link from a site called "The Hype Machine" which labels itself as an audio blog aggregator. The links take you to blogs where people are discussing "interesting" music. If the music does indeed seem interesting to us we can think about keeping the links there. If not, we can take them down. I'm really looking at lots of blogs and other sites to feed into netvibes...I just have a feeling that we haven't scratched the surface of all the good stuff out there :)
--Jeff

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My new netvibes screen shots

Ok, here's what my netvibes looks like now. My blogs page is the best and my news page is a mess. I need to get the news part in order. I've been overwhelmed with the whole thing ever since they provided tabs!

Pesco/pollo vegetarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just read that Steve Jobs consideres himself a pescetarian...hmm....

Seems that identifying according to a single category exclusion is suspect. I am a 'safe driver' b/c I don't run red lights, I am 'anti-fashionite' because I do not read GQ, I am 'political' b/c I vote. Maybe I am just a linguistic boundary facist here, but this doesn't seem equivalent to vegetarianism, which has reasons for its position in addition to exclusions (plural).

Pesco/pollo vegetarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Pesco/pollo vegetarianism', 'pescetarianism' or 'semi-vegetarianism' are neologisms coined to describe certain lifestyles of restricted diet. Most commonly, these include the practice of not eating certain types of meat (most commonly red meat such as beef, pork, lamb) while allowing other meats, such as seafood. There are usually no restrictions on non-flesh animal products such as dairy and eggs. Noteworthy is that not a single vegetarian organization considers the term a valid one."

Blog Crazy!

Ok, I'm adding people's blogs left and right to netvibes. Here are some helpful links and tips for converting various blogs into rss feeds.

Xanga: go to this site and follow the directions in the first paragraph exactly (the populist example)
MySpace: even easier
Livejournal: just add rss to the end of the url
Blogger: and of course anyone with a blogspot address you can just add atom.xml to the end of the url.
Theparagon: I have one friend with a blog on "theparagon"...and at the bottom of his page it provides a syndication link in xml format.

Any other blogging/syndication tips?

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New Blog: Stillwater Gardens

Stillwater Gardens

Dan and Julie Perkins are gardening along with us this summer. I thought it would be a good idea to blog our experiences and post a bunch of pictures. I have a feeling Angie and Preston Abbott will be joining us quite a bit too! So add this to your rss feeds and we'll keep you updated.
atom feed: http://stillwatergardens.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Peter Singer's new book

Singer's new book, 'The Way We Eat,' co-written with Jim Mason, looks at the eating habits of three different American families: vegans, 'conscientious omnivores' and a family eating the 'standard American diet.' The elements of each diet and the production chain that brought it to the table are then carefully considered in light of environmental impact, fair trade, the organic movement, the grow-local movement, genetically modified foods, animal rights and the depredations of agribusiness."

Check out the article here

Pickled corpse tumbles out of rum barrel - Peculiar Postings - MSNBC.com

Pickled corpse tumbles out of rum barrel "BUDAPEST, Hungary - Hungarian builders who drank their way to the bottom of a huge barrel of rum while renovating a house got a nasty surprise when a pickled corpse tumbled out of the empty barrel, a police magazine Web site reported.

According to online magazine www.zsaru.hu, workers in Szeged in the south of Hungary tried to move the barrel after they had drained it, only to find it was surprisingly heavy and were shocked when the body of a naked man fell out.

The Web site said that the body of the man had been shipped back from Jamaica 20 years ago by his wife in the barrel of rum in order to avoid the cost and paperwork of an official return."

According to the Web site, workers said the rum in the 300-liter barrel had a “special taste” so they even decanted a few bottles of the liquor to take home.

The wife has since died and the man was buried in a proper grave.