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The MegaPenny Project:
"Visualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about
millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it's still
hard to grasp just how much a "billion" really is. The MegaPenny Project aims
to help by taking one small everyday item, the penny, and building on that to
answer the question: 'What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look
like...?'
<http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/>
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Ever wondered how much "nature" your lifestyle requires? Here's where you can
measure your ecological footprint...
<http://earthday.net/footprint/index.asp>
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The Geek Test
<http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html>
I scored 24.06312% Geek... you?
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The Expanding Blogosphere of Political Blogs <http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3682>
As you probably know, Morgan:News publishes a blog -- it's our feed from the
stories written a month or so earlier and sent to the subscribers of our e-news
service about the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler,
Morgan:News:2010.
<http://www.Morgan-News.com/2010/2010Bronze.html>
The American Journalism Review asks a good question: "Political blogs -- online
journals featuring commentary, often highly opinionated -- have rapidly become
a presence in the campaign landscape. Now some established news organizations
are hiring established bloggers or creating their own. How much impact does
this instant punditry have on mainstream political reporting?"
Rachael Smolkin, a veteran reporter for the AJ Review, tackles that subject
(click the link at the top). She focuses on American political blogs, but the
Canadian political blog scene is alive and well, too. For a look at the
Canadian political blogs available, click here:
<http://www.blogscanada.com/politics/>
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What's a Canadian know about beer, eh? Well, plenty, as it turns out. And a lot
of it is stuffed into this industry/consumer website:
<http://www.realbeer.com/canada/>
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PopMatters
<http://www.popmatters.com/>
Standing in the corner next to the water-cooler wondering what to say about
something interesting? Stuck in an elevator with a batch of people who are all
looking at you because you just said "Darn!" out loud because you were lost in
thought about socks, and you're wondering how to make it sound intelligently
plausible? Wondering what to do in front of your girl when Mr. Atlas has just
kicked sand in your face and you are, in fact, a 98-lb weakling?
What you need is a good dose of coffee for the mind, aka, the in stuff about
current culture, and PopMatters is wonderful for that sort of "if only somebody
could make me an instant cultural smartie-pants, please" kind of situation.