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Today’s Wikipedia Featured Article: Aikido

January 31, 2008 By: Andrew Category: General, Off Topic No Comments →

Interesting. Every day, Wikipedia has a featured article on its homepage. Today’s article is on the Japanese martial art, Aikido. As I have written before, I used to study Yoshinkan Aikido, but I haven’t trained for quite a while.

Free University Lectures on the Internet

January 12, 2008 By: Andrew Category: General, Off Topic, Tech No Comments →

See? The Internet is more than just a collection of the latest monkey videos!

Dan from The Wrong Advices posted a really useful link to some free lectures that are available online. If you’re like me, you enjoy wasting time on the internet, but sometimes you also want to learn things. ;)

A wide variety of topics are offered. Here a few examples:

You can even listen to lectures from Oxford, Harvard, or MIT. It looks like some of the lessons have video, as well as audio lessons you can download. So you could study on your iPod, as well.

Here’s the link:

www.lecturefox.com

(Via The Wrong Advices.)

Which Super Villain am I?

January 09, 2008 By: Andrew Category: Announcements, General, Off Topic, Tests 1 Comment →

Since my friend Killdeer posted the results of his Super Villain test, I thought I should take it, too. You may recall that I took took a similar test a year ago.
In both cases, I had to check the results on wikipedia, because I don’t really know much about comic books. :) It turns out that I (oops! I’m not a super villain!), or rather my alter ego, was featured in a recent movie

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