From a speech said to have been given by Bill Gates at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

If you can read this - Thank a teacher!

Honda has re-worked the passenger car diesel engine and come up with some major improvements. One startling outcome is the ad. :)

Oh yeah!

Discipline is being able to recognize that even though the setups
are skewed toward moving in a given direction more times than not,
there are times when they are not going to move.

Don Miller

No, it appears that this is just blogger's way of spamming users... oh well, I suppose they have to get satisfaction out of the free blogs they offer so they are seeking the dubious satisfaction of annoying people with spam. :P

In an exciting new twist for my blog, someone appears to have read it! Jordon's comments here...

I've got a Yahoo! mailbox. Until this day I didn't know that they were data mining. Fortunately, Yahoo! allows you to opt out of this data mining. So, head on over to Yahoo! Privacy and remove the cookie if you don't want Yahoo! to know where you surf. :)

The good folks at Angry Alien have just release a tribute to It's a Wonderful Life.
Don't forget to chip in a few bucks for bandwidth.

Did Hot Black Dessiatu's ship (that was so black) have a name?

Who am I quoting?
"To coldly place the pursuit of profit above all other considerations is to be indifferent to all notions of humanity."
My mother wrote this on a piece of paper and stuck it to the wall near the kitchen 20 years ago and I still remember it. Was it a quote or did she come up with it? :)

JFK Reloaded:
What I really like about this game is that it has really upset plenty of Americans. With many of the top 50 scores being from Americans the public obviously is not nearly as offended as their representatives.

An excellent sculpture.

Because everyone has time to kill, have a go at being God.

This is my first picture post using Bloggerbot. 

Puppy Curling.

I always liked the magic eye stuff and I know 3D photography is nothing new but I liked these photos and here they are...

I like the badger.

Sensis! What a waste of time. Fancy dragging your sorry arses into the news and claiming that you are going to take Google on as the preferred search engine when you offer Australian only site searching. It's called the World Wide Web not the Xenophobic Narrow-minded Web.
This is a dumb idea and a waste of time... but, then... I suppose you were trying to attract users via television advertising (news-tainment in this case) so you have no real idea of what the internet is so you are probably trying to attract people who are similarly incapacitated.
Luke :))

Alien has never been so fluffy.

"May I always be the kind of person my dog thinks I am"
From: http://www.canadogs.com/