"While such a question could have just as easily been posed during a classroom conversation, teachers who use blogs say that students put a lot more thought and effort into their blog writing." Um, MORE thought into blog writing? That's an interesting counter trend...
Compare the total homicides in the city of Vancouver through July: 16.
(Apples-to-apples comparison, Vancouver's murder rate is 2.1/100,000 compared to L.A. county's 11.7/100,000 (in 2002).)
"[Los Angeles] county averages about 25 homicides a week, with about a dozen occurring within the Los Angeles city limits ? roughly half on weekends."
It also has one of the best main pages for a quirky shareware program I've seen. Basically, a video plays that shows you EXACTLY how to use the program and why it's useful.
“Almost every American I know does trade large portions of his life for entertainment, hour by weeknight hour, binge by Saturday binge, Facebook check by Facebook check. I’m one of them. In the course of writing this I’ve watched all 13 episodes of House of Cards and who knows how many more West Wing episodes, and I’ve spent any number of blurred hours falling down internet rabbit holes. All instead of reading, or writing, or working, or spending real time with people I love.”
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)