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Last login: 2 months agoJhayesboh: James is a 45 year old guy from Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA.; Likes 65 pages, 1 photo • 5 fans • Received 1 review; Member since Aug 05, 2006

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Lufthansa to Europe: Virtual Pilot!: Feb 10, 5:22pm 5 reviews geography, video-games, europe, place-name-geography
http://www.lufthansa-usa.com/useugame2007/html/play.html; This site from Lufthansa teaches the location of many European cities. As a geographic educator who is somewhat susceptible to video-game addiction, I can attest to the high quality of this site! You'll have fun, learn something, and stay up too late!

Darwin Day Celebration: Feb 10, 5:13pm 9 reviews evolution, education, science
http://www.darwinday.org/; This very educational site celebrates the coincidence of Darwin and Lincoln being born on the very same day. A few years ago, the organization helped me to put on a pro-Darwin event at my church on the anniversary. We are now gearing up for the bicentennial of Abe/Chuck on February 12, 2009, and we will be using this site to plan and publicize the celebration.

PEM | Origami Now Folding Station 2007: Dec 29, 2007 1:35pm 130 reviews arts, origami
http://pem.org/origami/; This is the online version of video tutorials I found at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. The exhibit will be going away soon, but this tutorial is great! Even a klutz like me made a reasonable duck.

GOOD 008 - Transparency - Vampire Energy: Dec 23, 2007 11:02pm 38 reviews environment
http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/008/trans008vampireenergy.html; I had heard the concept before, but this page quantifies the problem. Based on this, I may install a switch next to the TV/VCR cabinet to save electricity without crawling behind the thing all the time!

http://www.intelligentguess.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/usa-historical-d…: Dec 23, 2007 10:57pm 62 reviews liberal-politics, economics
http://www.intelligentguess.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/usa-historica...; This graph shows a relationship between deficit spending and party affiliation that might surprise some conservatives. A fair critique is that the graph does not show party distinctions before Bush-Clinton-Bush. First reason: the debt ratio was falling through the entire period.

Second reason: prior to Bush I and Bush II, Republicans were actual conservatives. Bush I -- and especially Bush II -- are Republicans, but they are not conservatives. They are borrow-and-spend radicals who shovel public money into the pockets of their backers.

http://robert.accettura.com/gallery/d/268-4/IMG_0147.jpg: Dec 23, 2007 10:48pm 45 reviews environment, humor, smoking
http://robert.accettura.com/gallery/d/268-4/IMG_0147.jpg; Anything to get people to stop using the world as a trashcan!

http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2006-05/no-amnety.jpg: Dec 23, 2007 10:33pm 23 reviews activism, humor, linguistics, patriotism
http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2006-05/no-amnety.jpg; Xenophobia is a social disease!

College Paper: Dec 23, 2007 10:23pm 443 reviews humor, education
http://asil.logicalinsanity.ca/300college%20paper.html; This expert procrastinator can verify that this piece describes students writing papers AND professors grading them. I'll be putting this on my "13th grade" page.

The 9 Most Racist Disney Characters | Cracked.com: Dec 23, 2007 10:15pm 69 reviews humor, race, justice, disney
http://www.cracked.com/article_15677_9-most-racist-disney-characters.html; This site explores examples of racism in Disney movies. The dark=villain / light=hero I had noticed. I saw "Song of the South" when it was in theaters (and I was a young white kid in the South). As this web site points out, Disney itself recognizes the racism in this one, and has tried to make it go away. I did not know that actor James Haskell had been kept out of the movie's first screening, but I'm not surprised.