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Since 2003, over 100,000 gamers worldwide have banded together through Child’s Play, a community based charity grown and nurtured from the game culture and industry. Over 5 million dollars in donations of toys, games, books and cash for sick kids in children’s hospitals across North America and the world have been collected since our inception.
This year, we have continued expanding across the country and the globe. With almost 70 partner hospitals and more arriving every month, you can be sure to find one from the map above that needs your help! You can choose to purchase requested items from their online retailer wish lists, or make a cash donation that helps out Child’s Play hospitals everywhere. Any items purchased through Amazon will be shipped directly to your hospital of choice, so please be sure to select their shipping address rather than your own.
When gamers give back, it makes a difference!
"They Ate the Waitress?" is a story about "murder, cannibalism, and a drug-addicted detective armed only with his wits and an atomic ray gun"…
When Nick Wergild regained consciousness, he was hanging from the third story window of a whorehouse in Beaver Creek, Montana. Forty feet below him was an ornate, concrete fountain that looked like a rather uncomfortable place to land. The only thing keeping him from the waiting embrace of gravity was a pair of handcuffs, a heavy, silver chain connecting his wrist to that of Quentin Fairbanks, former politician and current lunatic. Realizing where he was, Nick decided that opening his eyes had been a horrible mistake.
Texas A&M University has produced a version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in which the roles of several fairies were played by robots.
Any good Star Trek fan will, of course, recognize that Data got there first…
Slice of SciFi notes that four classic Doctor Who stories have been released on YouTube by the BBC. The videos feature William Hartnell (First Doctor), Patrick Troughton (Second Doctor), Jon Pertwee (Third Doctor), and Peter Davison (Fifth Doctor).
That's a great excuse for me to post this remembrance of all the Doctors:
From Online School:
Just about everybody can find a YouTube video they appreciate these days, whether they love animals, practical jokes, dance, politics, or academia — even science. From evolution to the future of medicine, the following videos encompass nearly every aspect of science a student would need to know. Some are 90 minutes long, while others are 20 seconds, but all of them are full of valuable information for the modern scientist.
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"Created with the goal to provide a free online school, CosmoLearning (CL) is an educational website committed to improve the quality of homeschooling, teaching and student excellence, helping educators and self-learners alike anywhere in the world. Designed to work as a free homeschool and organized according to traditional curriculum standards, CosmoLearning provides video lectures, courses, documentaries, books, quizzes, lecture notes and much more."
Today is November 7, 2009 — the first annual Carl Sagan Day. On this seventy-fifth anniversary of the birth of this remarkable man, I can think of no greater tribute than to sit quietly for a few minutes, and listen as he tells us of the pale blue dot on which we live…
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