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gregladen | January 11, 2008Sir Edmund Hillary Died of Heart Failure at the Auckland City Hospital at the age of 88.
Hillary is most famous for being the first european, with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, to reach the top of Mount Everest and return alive (and possibly the first to reach the summit).
Today, there are streams of climbers going up and down the slopes of this mountain, which is much easier to climb because of modern technology and having the routes already figured out. Nonetheless, a large percentage of these mountaineering yuppies do not survive the trek.
Hat tip: Science Buzz. More info here
gregladen | January 6, 2008Blueberry syrup, sodium alginate and calcium chloride is all you need to make these spheres that look a little like caviar.
gregladen | December 28, 2007Cool! A Wii! A Wii is a great way to deal with the problem of TV being a bad influence. Instead of sitting around watching TV, you INTERACT with your TV in a physically demanding way! It is actually GOOD for you! Watch!
Ooops. The down side is that you can only do this once. Once Per TV.
gregladen | December 17, 2007Sent from one of my more faithful readers
(includes footage of my brother in law being being Willie Nelson or the Everly brothers or somebody.)
gregladen | December 10, 2007And who would have known were it not for my Linux Calendar....
Dec 10
Emily Dickenson born, 1830
Dec 10
Metric system established in France, 1799
Dec 10
Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year
Dec 10
Foundation of Worker's Party in Angola
Dec 10
Human Rights Day
Dec 10
Thai Constitution Day in Thailand
Dec 10
Wyoming Day in Wyoming
Dec 10
N'oubliez pas les Romaric !
Dec 10
Bonne fête aux Eulalie !
Dec 10
Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Melchaide.
Dec 10
N'oubliez pas les Miltiade !
Dec 10
à la sainte Julie,
Le sole
il ne quitte pas son lit.
Dec 10
Friedensnobelpreis für…
gregladen | December 10, 2007The gunman believed to have killed four people at a megachurch and a missionary training school had been thrown out of the school a few years ago and had been sending it hate mail, police said in court papers Monday.
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The gunman was identified as Matthew Murray, 24, who was home-schooled in what a friend said was a deeply religious Christian household. Murray's father is a neurologist and a leading multiple-sclerosis researcher.[source]
This is a strange story of a deranged person who was killed by an armed security guard working at the said church.
"It appears that the…
gregladen | December 9, 2007Have you seen the Marumushi news map?
Here is an example of the output for the category Health, showing the relative "presence" of different categories of news on Health in the US:
Here is the same topic for Canada:
And here is the national news map. For Britain:
Go here to make your own news maps!
gregladen | December 8, 2007Dec 08
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65BC
Dec 08
James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894
Dec 08
First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965
Dec 08
Blessing of the Water in Uruguay
Dec 08
Mother's Day in Panama
Dec 08
Our Lady of the Cacupe in Paraguay
Dec 08
Jim Morrison is born in Melbourne, Florida, 1943
Dec 08
John Lennon is shot and killed in New York City, 1980
Dec 08
Afflux (50th of the Season of The Aftermath)
Dec 09
Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884
Dec 09
Independence Day in…
gregladen | December 7, 2007Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said teachers who refuse younger students access to the site are "bad educators".
Speaking at the Online Information conference at London's Olympia, he played down the long-running controversy over the site's authority.
He said young students should be able to reference the online encyclopaedia in their work.
Mr Wales said the site, which is edited by users, should be seen as a "stepping stone" to other sources.
As long as an article included accurate citations, he said he had "no problem" with it being used as a reference for younger students, although…