Records of the Freedmen's Bureau to go Online
tracy — Mon, 10/30/2006 - 10:16
Newsvine - Records of Freed Slaves to Go Online
Records the Freedmen's Bureau used to reconnect families
A site to share family stories
tracy — Thu, 10/19/2006 - 11:40
With a website from GrandpaTellMe.com you can record and share family memories, keep in touch with family members and pass on family histories. In addition you can schedule family events, create family scrapbooks and exchange files of any type. All of this within a secure, password protected environment.
Although the name is a bit strange, the site is pretty useful for family historians. It allows users to share calendars, news, photos, histories, and files with group members. In beta, the current version allows one to upload a total of 20MB monthly and use a total of 50MB of disk space.
Aparently, I'm a radical dissident
tracy — Thu, 09/21/2006 - 08:47
For those of you who may be wondering what in the world I'm talking about, a fellow alumnus of Dartmouth College, Peter Fahey '68, wrote an op-ed that was published in today's Dartmouth. Five Reasons to Vote, and Vote "Yes"
In this article, he calls those who are against the new constitution, radical dissidents. He also uses this name to refer to the 3 trustees of the college who ran as petition candidates. Already, I can tell this is a well-written and scholarly work.
In addition to name-calling, his five reasons for why I should vote for the new constitution can be roughly translated into this:
With fake dogs and everything...
tracy — Tue, 09/12/2006 - 12:25
Local News Updates - MIT 'hacks' mark Sept. 11 with a fake fire truck -The Boston Globe MIT 'hacks' mark Sept. 11 with a fake fire truck
By Andrew Ryan, Globe Correspondent
In what may be an only-at-MIT Sept.11 tribute, a fake fire truck appeared this morning on top school's Great Dome, the site of storied student pranks since at least the 1960s.
From the ground, the vehicle appeared to be the old fashioned cab of a truck that has been painted red. The cab is attached to a rectangular box, which is also red, and has the words "MIT Fire Department" painted on the side in bold white letters. A coiled roped dangled from the side of the "truck," completing the emergency vehicle look.
The End Of The World As We Know It?
tracy — Mon, 09/11/2006 - 14:49
Lifeboat Foundation ParticleAcceleratorShield: Particle Accelerator Shield Some people are worrying about the world's next-generation particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider, which is due to open for business next year at CERN's facility on the Franco-Swiss border. For instance, Ran Livneh who works on improving the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer's software and performance said:
"The LHC will soon be activated, creating physical environment very similar to that which prevailed soon after the Big Bang. This physical realm is unknown, and dangerous phenomena might arise. From the LHC site:
Belcher Family History at the New England Historic Genealogical Society
tracy — Mon, 09/11/2006 - 12:09
I spent my Saturday researching Belcher family history at the New England Historic Genealogical Society Research Library in Boston, Massachusetts. The morning went pretty well as I found a number of probate and other records referring to the Belcher family. However, I decided to do something on Saturday that was a first, I looked over the manuscript collection and found this:
Hey, I've heard of those guys...
tracy — Thu, 09/07/2006 - 08:30
Wired News: The Ultimate Blog Post As a handy guide for crafting your horrible lies, here's a list of some of the already popular blogs out there. (I'm omitting the blogs at Wired, because, hey, I have to work with these people.) Along with each blog's name, I've provided what would be the ultimate perfect blog entry for that particular blog. I'm tired of the word "blog" now.
Blogs and their ultimate perfect entry:
Put comments in your Gmail Email Address
tracy — Thu, 09/07/2006 - 08:24
Use Gmail Generate Unlimited E-mail Addresses - Modern Day Alchemist Gmail has an interesting quirk where you can add a plus sign (+) after your Gmail address, and it'll still get to your inbox. It's called plus-addressing, and it essentially gives you an unlimited number of e-mail addresses to play with. Here's how it works: say your address is pinkyrocks@gmail.com, and you want to automatically label all work e-mails. Add a plus sign and a phrase to make it pinkyrocks+work@gmail.com and set up a filter to label it work (to access your filters go to Settings->Filters and create a filter for messages addressed to pinkyrocks+work@gmail.com.
To Russia with love
tracy — Wed, 09/06/2006 - 08:05
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Write back in the USSR In the depths of the Cold War, the daughter of an imprisoned Soviet dissident received a message from across the Iron Curtain that changed her family's life.
Just charge it to my finger
tracy — Tue, 09/05/2006 - 08:14
Newsvine - Kids Buy Lunches With Scans of Fingers The never-ending march of technology now means school children here can pay for their cafeteria sloppy joes with their fingers.
Rome City Schools is switching to a scanning system that lets students use their fingerprints to access their accounts. In the past, students had to punch in their pin numbers.
