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Buon giorno, il mi amico. Come stai?
I’ve seen this on
several blogs and thought it would be fun to do. It’s simple and should be interesting. Be sure to follow the rules - no cheating!

Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the next 3 [...]

Some of you may have seen
pictures of President Bush with an iPod in hand as he goes for a run or bike ride. Ever wonder what he listens to?

FreeNewMexican has the answer:
The president has owned the [iPod] for some time, said [Laura Bush's press secretary, Gordon Johndroe]. He’s loaded his iPod with his [...]

I got offered a job today, a full-time position at a company in the medical industry. I should be joyful, but instead, I’m hesitant and not sure I’ll take it. The position is *not* IT related and I’ll be taking a pretty substantial pay cut. The benefits package is nice, but doesn’t [...]

I have two video tapes from several years ago that I can’t watch and I’m hoping one of my readers out there can help solve this problem…
The videos were taken during my summers working at ACE Computer Camp (1999-2000), and I really don’t know what’s on them (other than some girls from a bagpipe camp…don’t [...]

Anyone know Italian? I have this strange urge to learn a foreign language, Italian especially. Recently, I read
John Grisham’s The Broker (great book, by the way…more on it later), which had the main character learning the language. I’ve also heard several other references to the Italian language on TV, in movies, [...]

This from
Boing Boing

The entire story of Star Wars: Episode 3, laid out in about 80 screenshots from the film. Hurry and check it out before LucasArts sues the poor guy. Warning, the page contains about 6 MB of images.

Link
Update: Here’s a
Coral cache of the site.

Thanks to
JC’s Atoti for this.

The Five Love Languages is a book by Gary Chapman, a “seasoned marriage counselor [who] says people feel most loved in a marriage in one of five ways: quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, and physical touch.”

Quality Time refers to spending time together as a couple. People [...]

Here’s something to make you smile, or groan, as you begin the work week.

Funny Myahaa Myahee Guy

Handy resource for Google searches -
Google Help : Cheat Sheet

Here’s an interesting program -
IM Smarter

IM Smarter is a new kind of instant messaging enhancement. IM Smarter empowers all of the major messaging services with a rapidly expanding set of cool, new features. It’s not a “bot”. It’s not a plugin for AIM. It’s not a program that you run instead of your existing [...]