Britain’s 81-year-old Queen Elizabeth II, considered an icon of traditionalism, embraced modern technology yesterday, setting up her own special Royal Channel on YouTube. The queen will use the popular video-sharing website to send out her 50th annual televised Christmas message, which she first delivered live to the nation and its colonies on December 25, 1957. […]
Hypnosis: A Valuable Tool in Stopping Various Health-Related Conditions
Many years ago, whenever people hear the word ‘hypnosis’, what they immediately perceive is that of a trick that deludes the mind. Today, hypnosis is no longer regarded as a ‘sleight of hand’ thing. It has, in fact, become a generally-approved part of the prevailing direction of medical activities. Moreover, hypnosis has gradually unfolded into […]
I can not see my disk label
It was last Monday morning, when I was sitting in my office and starting my computer to begin a new week’s work, I was surprised to found that I can not see the disk labels in "My computer". I don’t know what to do since I’ve never encountered cases like that. Fortunately, one of my […]
Teen tech camp targets next-gen IT workers
Faced with dwindling enrollments in university computer science and IT programs, the Society for Information Management has taken a novel approach toward engaging America’s youth in potential IT careers: It is partnering with public libraries and other organizations to create technology camps for teenagers. The first such summer camp, which Chicago-based SIM organized three […]
‘Zeitgeist;’ a revealing look at the U.S. and ourselves
Taking the Truth as Authority Zeitgeist, 2007 Directed by Anonymous Written by Anonymous If there is a film that can single-handedly expose some of the biggest fallacies facing our generation, it is Zeitgeist, an anonymously-made documentary that aims to open the eyes of its viewer by presenting and analysing the socio-political system we find […]
Frankly
I have a principle which, for as long as I can remember, I have applied to my creative writing: I do not refer to any living person by their real name. Oh, I impugn the dead mercilessly and draw any number of coelecanths from the fathoms of my own imagination. But the living … if […]