Got this in the mail the other day.  I think more of us should be posting this on our pages ;-)

It's been a while since we've heard any peeps from the Captain Pike star trek fan film.  That's the one thing I dislike about crowdfunded stuff (even if I don't contribute to it) - the lack of information or progress reports. It would be nice to know that the people behind it are still chugging along - even at a slow pace.

Ζήτω η Ελλάδα! Ζήτω η Ελευθερία (όσο λίγη και να μας απομένει ώρες ώρες).  Το Μάθημα της ημέρας είναι πως ποτέ δεν πρέπει να το βάζουμε κάτω! "La Grèce sur les ruines de Missolonghi", Eugène Delacroix © Musée des Beaux-Arts-mairie de Bordeaux. Cliché F.Deval

I wonder if anyone in the 70's, when Atari came out, could have imagined this :)  A pocket Atari console, in an atari cartridge no less!

This comic strip of Jurassic Trek makes fun of the McCoy's fear of transporters ;-) (original archive here)

Well...seems like LiveMocha is going away.  The approach that I liked about LiveMocha was that it utilized social networking, and networks, for the purposes of language learning.  So, me - being a native speaker of Greek and English, I could earn points by teaching others those languages and  I could use those points to the in turn learn something new.  It allowed someone

My team and I just finished presenting on Assignment 2 for our Leadership course this past week.  In going through my notes, collected over the past month of meetings and preparation for this assignment, I came across the term 'soul-sucking leadership'.  It's not a leadership theory at the moment, but hey - maybe we can coin a definition and become famous ;-)  What do you think? (actual

LOL - a short film about Java going away.  I think with the impending end-of-life of the JRE plugin for browsers this is pretty funny.

Who said politicians can't be funny?

A while back I (and others) had seen this commercial on the internet which basically shows a couple of engineers (of the mythbusters kind - very unconventional ;-) ) making friend shrimp by blowing shrimp out of an air cannon into batter, breadcrumbs, and over a flame. Then, they enjoy some nice fried shrimp.  This seemed implausible, but the mythbusters in their final season tackled it.