Stop and Smell the Roses.: Life can be busy and hectic, but please remember to stop and smell the roses, like these cute orangutans are doing – found at Daum. ——— it smells nice, i bet.

craigslist: blacksburg classifieds for jobs, apartments, personals, for sale, services, community, and events: —— personally, i never thought that i’d see the day… but… blacksburg has a craigslist.

Does your life suck? – Life – The Phoenix : If Second Life truly takes hold, millions will spend hours doing business, meeting people, and just living inside the virtual world. As future upgrades are made, there will likely be short-term advances: voice-over technology, fewer system crashes, photo-realistic environments. But in the longer term, humans […]

Amsterdam clinic offers gamers path back to reality – Yahoo! News: AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Addiction expert Keith Bakker hopes the serenity of a 16th century townhouse on one of Amsterdam’s canals will coax those snared in the fantasy world of online games back to reality. “Like many others he started out with a handheld GameBoy […]

I have about 4 shelf-feet of dungeons and dragons, middle-earth roleplaying game and related materials that i’m selling for $75 plus shipping (probably close to $100). If you love rare and not so rare role-playing stuff drop me a note. They can be yours. Also if anyone in blacksburg is reading this…. I have about […]

H-Info: H-Info focuses on the interdisciplinary, international study of information and information institutions, broadly construed. It includes the foundations and history of print culture; reading and reception histories; the history and foundations of library and information sciences; and the history of libraries, archives, document-based cultural repositories, and other information institutions ——- as i’m a knowledge […]

Foreign Policy: The State at Work: Running a poor country has never been a tougher job. Civil servants are asked to do the people’s work with very little, sometimes with nothing at all. They see to it that the job gets done—or grinds to a halt. Meet the bureaucrats. ——- this photoessay reminds me of […]