Today is really Square Day!

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Subject: Happy Square Day!
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:24:39 -0600
From: Roger Hill
Reply-To: Handheld Computing Conference discussion list
Organization: Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
To: hhc@lists.brouhaha.com, ****@deepthought.com
Hi all,
Recently there was something in the news about “Square Root Day”,
03/03/09, and Richard Nelson circulated an E-mail about it. I was
corresponding with a friend about this, and [...]

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Find elements, get inspired, and build great things.

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If one is [...]

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A Low Tech Solution To Global Warming

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TED | Talks | Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do (video)

This is awesome. I definitely agree with his philosophy.
from www.ted.com posted with vodpod

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This is an awesome story of volunteerism and education.
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I had a fun excursion today and here are some pictures and a map to go with it. First I’ll tell you why I wanted to do this. As you might know, I used to drive a taxi (I think I still need to update that on the about me page). There was a faire [...]

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