KNN News reports that Lousiville’s 19 year old Patrick Hughes’ Extreme Makeover home is back on schedule, after having been behind schedule by five hours this past weekend. The house should be finished by tomorrow and fully furnished for the reveal on Wednesday.
Patrick Hughes was recognized on ESPN last year during a college football awards ceremony, where he received the 2006 Disney Wide World of Sports Spirit Award. Hughes, who was born disabled by blindness and an inability to walk, is a member of the University of Louisville Marching Band.
Video of the ESPN award ceremony available on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IohdtoLjoU0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmXWVGR0zpk
Story on Patrick Hughes by CBS News on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuOyBFEAylU
Tag: randomness
Rumor: Digg close to a $300 million sale
Digg is close to announcing its sale to a major media player for $300 million to $400 million, according to sources close to the company.
read more | digg story
It's official…Net neutrality removed for DSL!!!
Living in America? If you get your access to the Internet through an independent ISP over DSL, your service might become more expensive soon. Or slow. Or disappear entirely.
THIS IS REALLY BIG NEWS! READ THE STORY!
read more | digg story
Favorite Podcasts/Blogs
Since I got my notebook back out of pawn, I’ve been able to enjoy having podcasts and blog posts delivered through Outlook again. Ah, I’m loving it! The poor old desktop that I had been using was not able to handle all the media and applicable and necessary applications, plugins, extensions, whatever for me to truly enjoy anything. That poor machine had issues with running Semagic, Trillian, Winamp, Outlook, and Firefox at one time…
But, having the notebook back has brought me back to life, and enabled me to get all my news when I want it, again. For example, I’m writing this blog, listening to TWiT via iTunes, and have Trillian, Audacity, MySpace IM, Outlook, Attensa, Firefox, GDS, Money, RealVNC, and Orb running (and numerous other background services and apps, such as AVG and ZoneAlarm and the tons of extensions Firefox is running). Whoops… rambling…
Anyway, the point of this entry was to mention my favorite podcasts and blogs. Why? I dunno… I just thought it might be a neat thing to mention. I got the idea from reading a post from JonesPC.com (David Jones). Jones had listed his Top 5 favorite podcasts.
Well, let’s see… Audio: I like to listen to TWiT, Diggnation, and Cranky Geeks. Video: I like to watch Tekzilla.
Stuff I read? (or at least have delivered to my inbox) Hmmm… I’ve got 18… (well, 17, one of ’em is me – i dunno why, I’m silly)…
MSNBC.com: Countdown With Olbermann
WKYT – Home – Headlines
Jeremiah Palmer
Diana – Livejournal
Diggnation (Mp3)
Shandra – Livejournal
Slashdot
del.icio.us/twit
Harrison County Board of Education News and Information
Community Education Center
This Week in Amateur Radio
Jenny Lynn
Bailey’s Weather Blog
this WEEK in TECH – MP3 Edition
Kentucky – (Harrison/KYZ037) – Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Kentucky Issued by the National Weather Service
Clear Channel News (Weird News)
Clear Channel News (KNN Headlines)
and, the list is growing…
One other thing I do fairly frequently is listen to the local radio station’s hour long talk program, Coffeebreak, via the streaming broadcast. It’d be nice if they offered it up as a podcast…
So, there it is… a post on the stuff I listen to/read… Boy, I need a life…
8-limbed girl has successful surgery (GAVIN RABINOWITZ, Associated Press)
From the Associated Press:
Doctors in southern India completed a grueling 24-hour operation Wednesday on a girl born with four arms and four legs that surgeons said will give the 2-year-old a chance at a normal life.
The surgery went “wonderfully well,” said Dr. Sharan Patil, who led a team of more than 30 surgeons in performing the marathon procedure to remove Lakshmi’s extra limbs, salvage her organs and rebuild her pelvis area.
“This girl can now lead as good a life as anyone else,” Patil said from a hospital in the southern Indian city of Bangalore.
Read more of the story at: http://tickermyfeed.com/news.php/8-limbed_girl_has_successful_surgery
Sending his cancer a signal
Sending his cancer a signal
Kanzius did not have a medical background, not even a bachelor’s degree, but he knew radios. He had built and fixed them since he was a child, collecting transmitters, transceivers, antennas and amplifiers, earning an amateur radio operator license. Kanzius knew how to send radio wave signals around the world. If he could transmit them into cancer cells, he wondered, could he then direct the radio waves to destroy tumors, while leaving healthy cells intact?
News Feed Source
Home Page:
Feed Title: This Week in Amateur Radio
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Article
Title: Sending his cancer a signal
Link: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-cancer2nov02,0,1633038.story?coll=la-home-center
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Publication Date: 11/6/2007 9:30:47 PM
Motorola to Acquire Controlling Interest in Parent Company of Yaesu
According to a press release issued by Motorola, Motorola USA has announced its intention to “launch a tender offer to acquire a controlling interest in Vertex Standard Co, Ltd.” Vertex Standard is the parent company of Yaesu. Upon successful completion of the tender offer and subsequent restructuring process, Motorola will own 80 percent of Vertex Standard; Tokogiken, a privately held Japanese company, controlled by current president and CEO of Vertex Standard Jun Hasegawa, will retain 20 percent, forming a joint venture. The total purchase price for 80 percent of the outstanding shares on a fully diluted basis will be approximately ¥12.3 billion (approximately US $108 million). The bid will start November 6 and end on December 26. If the bid succeeds, shares of Vertex would be delisted from the Jasdaq Securities Exchange in Japan.
Full Story available at: http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2007/11/05/100/?nc=twiar
Can Privacy Exist on the Internet? [switched.com]
Hospice of the Bluegrass is looking for volunteers…
I just heard this on Coffeebreak, and thought I should share…
Hospice of the Bluegrass is looking for volunteers. Medical experience isn’t necessarily needed. Anyone who has any skill can be put to work. Examples of tasks/chores a volunteer can do are building ramps, raking leaves, cleaning, etc.
Anyone who is interested in helping our community’s elderly can contact Kelly Kendall at (859) 234-6462, or via email at kkendall@hospicebg.org.
Kelly will also be a guest on tomorrow’s Coffeebreak program, aired on WCYN 1400AM.
Eight Days a Week to perform at The Rohs
Eight Days a Week, a Beatles tribute band, will be performing at The Rohs Opera House on Saturday, December 8, 2007. The show starts at 6pm.
Tickets are on sale now. For more information, call The Rohs at (859) 234-9803.
Show sponsors are The Rohs Opera House & WCYN 1400AM