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100 Things To Do with Google Maps Mashups – gmapsmania!
This site can help you simulate a flood to show damage effects, see where UFOs have been sighted (not complete: no record for Stephenville when I checked!), find the nearest Starbucks, and best, make your OWN Google maps mashup!! And 96 other Cool Maps…
Undecided about your Career???
Undecided about your Career?
US News & World Report recently issued the \”Best Careers for 2008.\” If you like to write, try \”ghostwriting or \”editor.\” Are you good with math? Become an \”engineer\” or \”investment banker.\” Or would you rather work with people in a career in the \”clergy\” or as a \”politician.\” And if you want to stay in college forever, then \”professor\” or \”higher education administrator\” is perfect for you. Check out the entire article at:
http://www.usnews.com/features/business/best-careers/best-careers-2008.html
Be my Valentine
Valentine’s Day is approaching and many of us are thinking about our loved ones, but do you know why we celebrate Valentine’s Day? Check out this video clip on the History of Valentine’s Day @ http://www.history.com/minisites/valentine/.
Need to get inspired?
Here are just a few suggestions from our collection:
E-Books
Personal Author: Aron, Paul, 1956 Sept. 15-
Title: Count the ways [electronic resource]: the greatest love stories of our time / Paul Aron.
DICK-SMITH CALL NUMBER -HQ801 .A2 A76 2002 EB
Personal Author: Shafer, Ken, 1970-
Title: Happy together [computer file]: 500 things to do for and with your sweetheart / Ken Shafer ; illustrated by Tom Szafranski.
DICK-SMITH CALL NUMBER – HQ801 .S466 1996 EB
Books to Checkout
Title: Nothing but you : love stories from the New Yorker / edited by Roger Angell.
DICK-SMITH CALL NUMBER – PS648.L6 N68 1998
Location: STACKS
Personal Author: Fisher, Helen E.
Title: Why we love : the nature and chemistry of romantic love / Helen Fisher.
DICK-SMITH CALL NUMBER – BF575.L8 F53 2005
Location: STACKS
Also, checkout our lobby display of the 100 Greatest Love Poems Ever Written!
Hillary or Obama? McCain, Romney or Huckabee?
This is a neat website to go to for Super Tuesday.
Product Recalls — Stay informed
Want to know about product recalls: What? When? What next?
Check out the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission\’s site. \”You can find information on over 4,000 product recalls and recall alerts\” through a variety of ways.
- Check the commission\’s web page for updates.
- Receive RSS feed notifications.
- View podcasts.
- Listen to MP3 recordings.
Each of these formats lets you get recall summaries and product safety news. Stay informed!
Wear Red on Friday!
National Wear Red Day – February 1, 2008 – is a day when Americans nationwide will wear red to show their support for women\’s heart disease awareness. This observance promotes the Red Dress symbol and provides an opportunity for everyone to unite in this life-saving awareness movement by showing off a favorite red dress, shirt, or tie, or Red Dress Pin.
Candidates and issues matrix
Candidates + issues matrix Take a look at all the presidential canadidates and see how they stand on issues such as the economy, energy, health care, immigration, and the Iraq War.
Source includes videos of spreechs, links to newspaper articles, and political websites.
A GREAT source from msnbc.
Ask not what your country can do for you…
Have you heard those famous words from John F. Kennedy? Well, this post IS about what your country has already developed for you! Gov gab is a blog from your public servants, the federal government. Find all kinds of information, including how to buy a car, financing college, getting prepared for the baby that is about to turn your life upside down, interviewing for that first new job, even building a compost pile (green, brown, water).
It\’s like having Mom and Dad right here to answer all your questions–wait! YOU can wow Mom and Dad with what you learn at gov gab.
Check it out: http://blog.usa.gov/roller/
Easy & del.icio.us
Do you participate in social bookmarking?
If you haven\’t tried using del.icio.us or other social bookmarking or tagging tools yet… this video may help change your mind!
Social bookmarking is easy and it allows you to access and share your favorite websites from anywhere you have an internet connection. Let us know what you think of del.icio.us, furl, simply, or other social bookmarking tools.
Think before you party….drink?
College parties that boast drinking games or sexualized themes or costumes may encourage students to drink to a particularly excessive degree, a new study suggests. Instead of surveys, research assistants actually went to dozens of college parties and witnessed the goings-on themselves. They also conducted breath-tests on party-goers for blood alcohol concentrations. What they found was that students who played drinking games tended to imbibe more, as did women at \”theme\” parties — especially those with sexualized themes.
Read more at:
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