Category: General

Yes way: A baby boy who was pronounced dead after a heart attack came back to life 30 minutes later as he lay in his grieving parents’ arms. Medical staff at Leeds General Infirmary had tried in vain to resuscitate two-week-old Woody Lander. He was handed over to parents Jon and Karen Lander so they […]

Hidey-ho to all the nice folks listening to Beau and Mix 96.7 in northeast Nevada as well as fans of Wayne and Jayne on KBS in Kootenay Canada. The goods on The Secret Movie 30 Day Challenge are right here.

(last Friday, via instant messenger) Andrea: do you know what you want at all? i mean aside from ‘easy, quick and lots of money?’ Andy: the gabrillion dollar question Andrea: mmhmm Andy: I’d love to be abel to use all this tech for social change. yadda Andrea: you know. there is something there. totally. i’d […]

OpenCongress brings together official government information with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind what’s happening in Congress. Small groups of political insiders and lobbyists know what’s really going on in Congress. Now, everyone can be an insider. OpenCongress is a free, open-source, non-profit, and non-partisan web resource with a mission […]

Johnny can’t read or write. But he sure does feel good about himself: Twenge and her colleagues, in findings to be presented at a workshop Tuesday in San Diego on the generation gap, examined the responses of 16,475 college students nationwide who completed an evaluation called the Narcissistic Personality Inventory between 1982 and 2006. The […]

We are at war. Marwan Jabour was kidnapped by the CIA and spent 25 months in an US-run gulag.

“Australia may not be able to handle the truth — Female koalas indulge in lesbian “sex sessions”, rejecting male suitors and attempting to mate with each other, sometimes up to five at a time, according to researchers. (via Digg)” Did anybody else catch that special (PBS? Discovery?) about the Bonobo monkeys (with whom we – […]

Stewart Mader and John Willinsky gave a talk on wikis and communities. Several bloggers took notes: Wikis in education: His classes have created an on-going repository of lesson plans for K-12 teachers using this wiki -a brilliantly conceived framework for the knowledge management that a well-organized wiki is so good at. Moreover, the community is […]

#7 of 12: Email Forward Link: If there was one category of links I would wish to move higher on this list, this would be it. These are the referral URLs that come through with very strange configurations, but take you back to a secure network or webmail service, meaning that a URL for a […]

I think the MyBlogLog communities feature is really awesome. Basically you can see who is reading your blog (provided they are a MyBlogLog user). Here’s who is reading AndyWibbels.com. But then TechCrunch and some other bloggers started musing that maybe the reason Yahoo! bought MyBlogLog was so it could capitalize on the trends that the […]