Category — Just Interesting

Take a cue from Lady Gaga; Do Different proud, Not Meek. One thing we can all learn is how to do something full out. If you’re going to be different, then be different. To do it half way just takes away from doing it at all. It falls short of its intended purpose. Stand behind your bubble outfit or burning your lover and your bed with your bra that fires sparks. Don’t talk about it or the why of it all. Just create. Just do.

How are you doing things differently? Is your creativity bound by something, and if so, why?  As I’ve said before, don’t let the constraints constrain you.

Passion Rules!

ADVISORY__

January 7, 2010

TO:                  Media Covering the University of North Carolina

RE:                   NC State University Chancellor Election

As previously announced, the Board of Governors of the multi-campus
University of North Carolina is expected to elect a new chancellor for
NC State University tomorrow (1-8-10) during its regular meeting, to
be held in the main board room of the C.D. Spangler Center in Chapel
Hill.  The meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. with a routine closed
session, with the open session to immediately follow.  The election of a
chancellor will take place in open session, and I expect the candidate
to attend and make formal remarks to the Board of Governors.

Pending election by the Board of Governors, the candidate has agreed to
meet briefly with reporters.  *A short informal press conference will be
held in the Executive Conference Room immediately following the
conclusion of the meeting.*  Biographical information, a prepared
release, and related material will be available.

Santa skeptics have long considered St. Nick’s ability to deliver toys to the world’s good girls and boys in the course of one night a scientific impossibility. But new research shows that Santa is able to make his appointed rounds through the pioneering use of cutting-edge science and technology.

“Santa is using technologies that we are not yet able to recreate in our own labs,” explains North Carolina State University’s Dr. Larry Silverberg, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering who just completed a six month visiting-scholar program at Santa’s Workshop-North Pole Labs (SW-NPL). “As the first scholar to participate in the SW-NPL program, I learned that we have a long way to go to catch up with Santa in fields ranging from aerodynamics and thermodynamics to materials science.” [Read more →]

From Twittercism.com; Using both Twittercounter and Twitterholic (both of which actually have slight variations in their charts), and checking as much as I can on Twitter.com itself, I’ve taken a minute to calculate who it is that’s tweeting the most on Twitter, and (where possible) what is they’re talking about.Here then, are the top ten, ranked by daily average:

1. @Market_JP (1,560,818 tweets, 43 followers, 2,268 tweets per day)
The runaway leader on Twitter, and the only account with more than one million tweets, is @Market_JP, which seems to be some kind of feed of news from the Nikkei, the Japanese stockmarket.

2. @Nieuwslijstnl (529,393 tweets, 443 followers, 2,126 tweets per day)
News from Holland, and broadcast from Amsterdam at an astonishing rate.

3. @dogbook (470,210 tweets, 1,238 followers, 1,992 tweets per day)
Dogbook is the Facebook app that lets dog owners connect with each other. The @dogbook feed seems to tweet the updates from these folks’ dogs. At a rate of almost two thousand times per day. Good times.  Wuf Wuf. [Read more →]