Eight women send their rugged, outdoors-loving, self-sufficient men to Brawny Academy to learn new skills.
Can they survive?
Month: June 2006
Hydrogen Atom
And you thought there was a lot of empty space in the solar system. Well, there’s even more nothing inside an atom. A hydrogen atom is only about a ten millionth of a millimeter in diameter, but the proton in the middle is a hundred thousand times smaller, and the electron whizzing around the outside is a thousand times smaller than THAT.
Corporate Blogs
Steve Rubel explores how social media is transforming marketing, media and public relations.
Do corporations need blogs? Apparently the corporations think so.
Also…
Google will test GBuy, its online payment system, this week.
NBC and YouTube are going from foes to friends.
Ken Jennings Head
Ken Jennings, who won 74 games and $2.52 million on Jeopardy!, has a blog.
So, like many of you, I’m sure, I have this huge styrofoam version of my head sitting in the garage. It was part of a parade float here in Salt Lake last July, and after the parade they very kindly called me up and asked me if I wanted the huge head. I said yes.
And now we’re moving to Seattle. ~ So what do I do with the Big Ken Head? ~ Best suggestion wins a prize.*
*Note: prize may be a big Ken head. You pay shipping. Offer void where prohibited by law or your mom.
I don’t think I’ll waste my time asking Marlene if it’s ok to have a big Ken head in our garage.
Bright Side
Things didn’t go your way at the World Cup? Opponents had outstanding teamwork? Fans didn’t generate enough excitement?
Look on the bright side. What have you lost? Nothing!
3D Logic
Got stuck at Level 16 on my first try.
Pythagoras Switch
A Japanese show with Rube Goldberg devices.
PreSurfer
Origins
Over six programmes, Channel 4’s Origins tells the story of our world from its violent birth, 4.6 billion years ago to the emergence of modern man. Using stunning graphics, dramatic reconstructions and interviews with ground-breaking researchers, it shows an infancy scarred by boiling rock and crashing meteors before it resembled anything like today’s planet, with the epic migrations of human beings throughout the globe.
Paul Bunyan
Paul Bunyan gets trees a lot of free publicity. But he is also famous for cutting them down in big numbers. Mythical, legendary, ugly numbers. Ecologist nightmare numbers. But there are few folk tales told about the adventures of a tree, or an ecologist, for that matter. Paul Bunyan is everywhere, and is much beloved.
His birthplace in Bangor, ME is marked by statue, but where you really fall all over Bunyan monuments are in the northern forests of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.
According to the legend, Paul Bunyan had super-human strength and speed, was smart and had a sense of humor. This uniquely American “tall tale” began somewhere in the lumber and logging camps of the early 19th Century. The Red River Lumber Company used this legend in its advertising booklets from 1914 through the 1930s.
The Gallery of Huge Beings lists only four Paul Bunyan locations:
Klamath, California
Oscoda, Michigan
Akeley, Minnesota
Bemidji, Minnesota
We spent a lot of summer vacations at Pike Hole Resort, just north of Cass Lake. It’s a short drive to Bemidji, Minnesota, the first city on the Mississippi River, where the famous 18-foot tall statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox on Lake Bemidji’s southwest shore serve as reminders of the area’s logging history. I’m sure my Mom has some pictures of us standing in front of the statue.