Somehow I’m ashamed to admit I’ve really been digging the Justin Timberlake FutureSex/Love Sounds album leaks that have been floating around the internets. In particular, What Goes Around…Comes Around. Go to Hype Machine and search Timberlake. Quick. Before it’s gone. I promise it’s worth your time.
Filed under: If you like Cry Me a River, you’ll like this.
….what goes around comes around goes around comes the whole way back around….
Friend of mine IMs me. I say, “What’s up?” He says, “I’m stumbling.” “Huh?” I say.
Turns out stumbling is what you do when you use the StumbleUpon toolbar and click on Stumble! This takes you to a webpage that other stumblers with likes similar to your own (you choose these when you sign up) have rated “I Like It!”. You can rate sites, too–even leave comments about them to share with your ‘fans’. Fans are people who have clicked “add as friend” on your StumbleUpon profile. Drop by, download the toolbar and sign up. Perfect for times when your online and totally bored with your usual haunts.
Oh, and add me as a friend. I’m pdfob. ‘Kay, thanks.
Now to get to the real reason for this post! While stumbling tonight I found the Rules for The School of Life. Closes thing to an owner’s manual for life that I’ve found yet. The Rules, in their entireity, are below.
Rules for the School of Life
1. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called Life. Each day you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think your assignments are stupid and irrelevant but each one has a purpose that is special for you.
2. An assignment will be repeated until you have learned that lesson. Do you find yourself experiencing the same (unpleasant) event again and again? One of your current learning projects is to discover whatever you need to do so it either stops happening or no longer affects you .
3. New assignments and projects may appear before you are ready, but you will only learn from them when you are ready - If you are not, you will do whatever you need to do to avoid learning - That may be how it has to be for the present. Don’t worry, when you are truly ready they will be presented again.
4. Your assignments will be presented to you in various forms - There are no coincidences. Whatever is going on around you is happening today because it’s part of your lesson for today.
5. Any task that presents you with a difficult question will offer teachers to help you. The best teachers guide you towards a number of choices rather than one ‘right’ answer. They will help you decide for yourself which answers will work best for you in the long run.
6. There are no mistakes, only lessons. - Growing is a process of experimenting, of trial and error. You can discover as much from a ‘failed’ experiment as you can from the experiment that ultimately ‘works’.
7. Learning lessons does not end. - There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. Once you have learned one lesson you move on to the next one. If you are still alive, there are still new lessons to be learned.
8. Learning and growing means moving from “here” to “there”. - But once your last “there” has become your new “here”, you will be given another “there” that will again be better than “here”.
9. Others are mirrors of you. - If you love, desire, hate or reject something about another person it reflects something you love, desire, hate or reject about yourself. Learning to see this clearly is one of the greatest lessons of all.
10. The answers to Life’s problems are already inside you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. What you make of your life is up to you and how you do it is your choice.
11. You will forget all this, until you realise that learning these rules is also one of your lessons.
Guy enters lab with two girls. Guy desperately wants to impress girls. Girls oooo and awww when they see the dual-screen Mac G5s. Guys says, “Aren’t these computers nice? They’re European.” Girls giggle in awe of guy’s underwhelming intelligence.
Two articles (quoted in their entireity below) in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus Blog reinforce the notion that campus communications have evolved with the times. The first, regarding live online broadcasts of athletic events, is happening parallel to Cal’s own efforts to bring live streaming athletic events to the web beginning this fall. The second, using text messaging to push news to students, is an intriguing idea.
August 16, 2006
Small-Conference Football Hits the Computer Screen
Fans of the Oklahoma Sooners or the Auburn Tigers may never have to travel farther than a local sports bar to see their favorite college football teams in action. But supporters of the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks have no such luck: Small-conference teams virtually never show up on television.
So instead of trying, futilely, to negotiate TV contracts, the lesser conferences are taking their games straight to the Web. This season the Big Sky Conference, which features Northern Arizona, will broadcast all its football games (as well as its basketball and volleyball matches) online, according to the Associated Press. And the commissioner of the Ivy League predicts that almost all the league’s sporting events will air on the Web — for the benefit of alumni and proud parents — within seven years. –Brock Read
August 16, 2006
Campus News, on Your Cellphone
Pennsylvania State University will start using text messages to send news bulletins to cellphones and PDA’s, campus officials announced today. The text-messaging service, which starts Friday, is the latest high-tech expansion of Penn State Live, the university’s popular online news network.
Penn State Live already boasts 360,000 subscribers, and it recently added an RSS subscription service to its e-mail offerings. But more students are turning to text messaging, and university officials decided it was time to try out the technology.
Cellphone users can subscribe to receive information on three different topics, according to CNET News: campus emergencies, sports, and concerts. —Brock Read
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Somehow I’m ashamed to admit I’ve really been digging the Justin Timberlake FutureSex/Love Sounds album leaks that have been floating around the internets. In particular, What Goes Around…Comes Around. Go to Hype Machine and search Timberlake. Quick. Before it’s gone. I promise it’s worth your time. 
