Part Ohio State Patrol propaganda, part ’50’s nostalgia, part blood and guts – the Driver’s Education Film! Surely they’ve retired these by now, but I was shown similar films in 1983 in high school driver’s education. They were pushing 30 years old even then! Note the bad acting on the part of the dispatcher, and […]
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I stumbled into this treasure trove of old “educational” films at www.avgeeks.com – I thought these kind of films were ancient when I was in school, but now they seem from long, long ago… here’s a sample. Too bad they had never heard of bicycle helmets…
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http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-cyclistshearts&prov=ap&type=lgns In other news, they also seem to have less body fat and climb faster than average. Even the article states that “athlete’s heart,” i.e. the idea that the heart, like any other muscle, develops with strenous use, has been well understood for eons. I suppose the article represents “news” in that the study is new,
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What’s aggravating is I’ve had this happen before… TinyMCE was working fine. My user account wasn’t set to use the visual editor. Why does WordPress turn this off by default? The preceding post has included far too much formatting. The following is a well-known picture of two dolphins. If one of them looks like a
“I guess I’m just not that narcissistic,” my 20-something associate said as we tucked into Mexican food and I tried to describe Twitter to him, and boy was I relieved. You see, I have been mindful of my advancing age as the wonders of Web 2.0 have, one by one, been unveiled. Some of it’s
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I heard about Mahalo on TWiT, and it sounded cool, but now I’ve found their killer app, as far as I’m concerned: their Internet Zeitgeist category. Nothing like a small army of human searchers to find out about everything the cool kids are talking about. Current topics: Hitler Cats Ask a Ninja and the infamous