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SNOPES! I Can't Say it Enough (Apparently)

Check with Snopes before you forward that oh so helpful informative email to all your friends about Obama Acceptance Speech Cell Phones and Telemarketers Microsoft/AOL Giveaway Applebee's Gift Certificates #77 Emergency Call http vs. https Mail Server Report Lee Iacocca 809 Area Code Nancy Pelosi #-9-0 Phone Scam Joshua Bell Jane Fonda Life Is Beautiful PPA Recall Alert

Learning ASL (Sign Language) in Grand Rapids

Hey, interested in learning to communicate better with the deaf? Grand Rapids has many options for learning to sign. Grand Rapids Community College (http://grcc.edu) SL-150 Orientation to Deafness SL-155 Fingerspelling SL-171 American Sign Language I SL 172 ASL II Classes are 3 Credits, Resident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 82.50 per contact hour NonResident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 173.00 per contact hour Out of State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 253.00 per contact hour Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services (http://deafhhs.org) ASLI-IV and Conversational ASL 12 week classes are $125 each, and many of the instructors are local deaf. Deaf Expressions (http://deafexpressions.net) Workshops at various times, and tutoring. Sign Language Classes at the Y (http://grymca.org/visser/) $40 for members, $80 for non-members for a 12 week class. Baker College in Muskegon (http://baker.edu) and Lansing Community College offer ITP programs. Become a...

Famous Left Handers

http://r-o-n-n-i-e.blogspot.com/2008/11/left-handers.html Famous left-handers: 50 Cent Adolf Hitler Albert Einstein Alexander the Great Angelina Jolie Anna Nalick Anthony Kennedy, Supreme Court Justice Ashley Tisdale Babe Ruth Barack Obama Barry Bonds Bart Simpson BB King Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Netanyahu Bernie Mac Bill Clinton Bill Gates Billy Corgan Billy Crystal Billy Ray Cyrus Bob Dylan Boston Strangler (Albert Henry DeSalvo) Brian Lara Bronson Pinchot Bruce Willis Buzz Aldrin Carol Burnett Caroline Kennedy Cary Grant Celine Dion Charlemagne Charles "Lefty" Driesell Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chapman Chris Martin Christian Slater Clarence Darrow Cole Porter Colin Powell Dan Aykroyd Dane Cook Dave Barry David Bowie David Henrie David Letterman David Rockefeller Davida Williams Deion Sanders Denis Quaid Denise Richards Diane Keaton Dick Van Dyke Dominic Howard Don Rickles Dorothy Hamill Doug (Cartoon Character) Drew Carey Edwin Aldrin Ella Kenion Eminem Fidel Castro Fran D...

Climbing Google Ranks

Jared writes "Google, You Really Like Me" http://www.jaredlog.com/?p=931 Is that really a good thing? http://www.google.com/search?q=Bill+Creswell It's a little freaky to me. I wish I had vision and direction when I started my tenure on the web. Maybe I could have developed a brand or something. http://www.google.com/search?q=grComputerWorks Maybe I could have "monetized". Hosted Wordpress does not allow ads. http://www.google.com/search?q=captioned+movie+trailers Oh well. Good thing I have a day job.

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Think You're Multitasking? Think Again

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95256794 Don't believe the multitasking hype, scientists say. New research shows that we humans aren't as good as we think we are at doing several things at once. But it also highlights a human skill that gave us an evolutionary edge. As technology allows people to do more tasks at the same time, the myth that we can multitask has never been stronger. But researchers say it's still a myth — and they have the data to prove it. Humans, they say, don't do lots of things simultaneously. Instead, we switch our attention from task to task extremely quickly.

McCain Vs. Obama: Pension

A president's pension currently is $191,300 per year until 80.  Assuming the next president lives to age 80.  Sen. McCain would receive ZERO pension, since he would reach 80 at the end of two terms as president. Sen. Obama would be retired for 26 years after two terms and would receive $4,973,800 in pension. Therefore, it would certainly make economic sense to elect McCain in November. *How's that for non-partisan thinking???*