Author Archives: Marion Jensen

Why don’t we settle?

My 1 year old is at the stage that always amazes me. Or rather he is at ONE of the stages that always amazes me. The little guy is an expert crawler. He can either crawl on his hands and … Continue reading

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It’s all in the eye of the beholder…

Some are calling this a disaster. A security robot attacks the Japanese Prime Minister. Apparently it threw up a smoke screen right after meeting the PM. Politicians, smoke screens… It somehow seems perfectly rational to me.

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VR Therapy

Video game developers have moved into a new field. VR therapy allows Doctors to help “combatants cope with the personal psychological effects of war”.

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This is a photo of the highest jump ever by a human being. It was done back in the 60s as part of the space program. An interesting article on the story can be found here. He jumped at an … Continue reading

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A Bit of Sunday Poemtry

I started reading Shel Silverstone to my son when he was barely old enough to talk. He could never understand why a single verse was called a poem, and a collection of poems was called Poetry. So he always called … Continue reading

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What won’t they think of next?

Looks like Wikipedia now has text books?

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Open Application List

This is a nice list of some of the open, free and reliable programs availbale out there. While I can’t vouch for all of them (I haven’t used some, and don’t like a few on the list), I do us … Continue reading

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Yet Another Function of Google Maps

Google maps have been ‘hacked’ (I’m using that word in the original sense, meaning a cool way to do something, instead of the media twisted sense meaning a malicious prank) in yet another cool way. You can now track from … Continue reading

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Do you Yahoo?

Maybe you should Google instead. Yahoo claims to search more than 20 billion ‘web items’, to Google’s measly 8.1 billion. However, when compared side to side… “a user can expect, on average, to receive 166.9% more results using the Google … Continue reading

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Cross Your Fingers

iPodders everywhere are crossing their fingers. It looks like NPR may make more of their programs available online as podcasts. I’m a big fan of many programs on NPR, but if they’re not on when I’m in the car (which, … Continue reading

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