A contest worth entering

The boys at Gizmodo have got one great contest going this week and it's for the betterment of society...maybe.  This is a MS Paint contest to illustrate your vision of the future.  This may be the only time anyone asks you for your opinion on matters this great...so have fun with it.

WOW and Distance Learning

I'm assuming my hours logged onto World of Warcraft with people across the nation won't count as distance learning education.  However, it's interesting to see classrooms incorporating online gaming into their distant learning sessions.  I've been reading much about the improvement of this form of education.  I can only imagine how fun it would have been to learn English grammar rules in the 8th grade, while watching a Chinese 5th grader cover the same material.  Nowadays it's not just two classes that can see each other...they are bringing in shared lesson plans, quizzes and even games where the two classrooms can compete.  These are truly inspirational times and you've got to be happy with the way the education system is keeping up with technology.  Just got to keep an eye out on the roll call for a youngster named Leroy Jenkins.

Fear the snooze button

If you are like me, you rarely need the snooze button, being you were cursed with an internal clock that wakes you up at 5:17 am, 6:30 am, 8:15 am and sometimes 10:36 am.  However, I do use the alarm function on my clock from time to time.  There are people out there who absolutely rely on an alarm clock to wake them up.  For example; my roommate in college had the horrible trait of not waking up to his alarm...though I would.  I soon found out that if I turn off his alarm for him...he will sleep for days.  I chose to just wake him up, being the smell of his funk building up rivaled all the lack of sleep.

For such people comes the Tyrant Alarm Clock.  Tyrant hijacks your cell phone's contact list and makes random calls until you tell it to stop.  Wow!  Imagine oversleeping and your phone randomly calls your ex.  Your situation just got a lot worse very quickly.   I'm all for this technology...for other people.