An Island of Sanity

Is "Mother Nature" Doing Their Work Quite Nicely?

Three disasters that I've heard of in the past few days. What is going on? First of all, there was a Texas news helicopter that crashed and killed two of its crew. A few days later, a California highway bridge, which was under construction, collapsed.

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IMSA: Where Illinois' Brightest Minds Gather

The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, or IMSA, is a three-year residential high school, which accepts about 230 students every year into the incoming sophomore class.

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A Dream Fulfilled, A User Goes Inactive

I've been on Newsvine for about four months now, and I think I've sent out my roots in the community. I've written a couple of articles that have done pretty well, and commented on a lot of stories.

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What In The World? -- Newsvine Spikes Then Valleys

Watching Alexa rankings is a fun way to see what sites became popular at what time. While it may not be good for hard numbers, it's good to use to see trends in visitors to a site. Newsvine appears to have had something interesting occur in their readership.

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The Weekly Vinecast -- Technical Difficulties

Unfortunately, we experienced some problems this week, so we can't post an episode. My Skype didn't work, so I asked Shawn Gordon to host. He says that there were mic and echo problems, so it didn't work. Sorry for that. Be sure to check back next week.

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The Real Way To Defeat Terrorism

We can all see that the Western World's strategy against terrorism isn't working. Terrorists still recruit members, and keep on bombing innocent civilians. Conflicts still break out in the Middle East, and we are aware of numerous terrorists within the United States.

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The Weekly Vinecast, Episode 4: Solving Societal Problems, Now Availiable.

The Weekly Vinecast continues to amaze as it releases its fourth episode. And this one has a special bonus as we solve all of Society's problems Don't worry, it's our job. Subscribe on iTunes (Reccomended) FeedBurner Feed Direct link (not really reccomended)

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The Real Terrorists: Our Government

Before you start reading, you should probably know that I'm saying something entirely different from what you're thinking. However, know that the more I listen to news, the more I'm afraid to leave my house.

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The Vinecast, Episode 3: Currently Ad-Free, Now Avaliable

Fortunately, we were able to get some more interest from people who wanted to be on the panel this week. This week's edition had five panelists and was the first one hosted by me. Subscribe on iTunes (Reccomended) FeedBurner Feed Direct link (not really reccomended)

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Poll on Israel

It seems that there's a divide within the Newsvine community and the Global community over Israel and other subjects that stem from that. I want to see where the fundamental ideology differences lie. So please answer these polls for me.

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How New is New?

Anywhere we go today, everything is new new new. It sometimes even seems as if products that were released forever ago are still considered 'new' by certain marketers. When will the madness stop?

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Of North Korea, Iran, and Foreign Nuclear Policy Mistakes

It seems that Americans, the govenment as well as the people, have a really short memory. We keep repeating the exact same foreign policy mistakes with each and every country we face. Isn't it about time that someone woke up and realized what we're doing?

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Newsvine Chat: A Weekly Roundtable of Users?

While I was sitting in a chat room with three other people in it, I had an idea. What if we had an organized weekly chat session within the Newsvine Community?

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Live Poll: Apple vs. Dell

I just wanted to guage the Newsvinve community's opinions as far as the debate on Apple Macbook Pro vs. IBM-based PC Laptop goes. Given two laptops with similar prices and similar specs, which would you choose?

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Web 2.0 and Its Communities

Web 2.0 is the new fairly old buzzword flying around on the Internet for a while. O'Reily defines Web 2.0 as using "the Web as a platform" and "harnessing collective intelligence".

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Annoying E-mail Forwards: A Thing of the Past?

Everybody remembers the old days of getting "Fw:Fw:Fw:Fw: Fw:Fw:fw:fw: Re:FW:Fwd :fwd:Haha" in their inbox, and it seems as if those days have disappeared. But have they really?

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Wikipedia Goes Down -- An IRC Story

I was editing Wikipedia when all of a sudden, BAM! I got the multilingual error message. Wikipedia was experiencing technical difficulties.

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I'm in the class of 2009 at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA), and interested mostly in technology, science and politics.

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