Grads urged to 'continue on good path' (The Champaign News-Gazette) URBANA ? Geronimo Caldwell was the first American Indian student at the University of Illinois to have a home away from home to hang out in for all four years of his undergraduate career. The 22-year-old from Sims, a small community in southern Illinois just east of Mount Vernon, called the Native American House on West Nevada Street in Urbana an "awesome" place....more...The Smart Folks At Dr. Dobb's Journal Lead By Example Doing Business At Second Life (InformationWeek) I've been privileged in my short but intense career in Second Life to be able to look over the shoulders of some of the smartest businesspeople in the virtual world -- the team working for our sister publication, Dr. Dobb's Journal, . John Jainschigg, their online editor-in-chief, is always doing 12 things at once and moves three times faster than a normal person, but I was finally able to ......more... ArtPace, her creation, has put S.A. on the map of the art world (San Antonio Express-News) ?Dreams are really your best guide,? says Linda Pace, ?because they're ahead of you. Your unconscious takes in more information because it isn't controlled by your ego.?...more... Heard any good books lately? (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Within minutes, audiobook narrator Nelson Runger of Yardley had captivated his listeners at the Pennwood/Langhorne Branch of the Bucks County Free Library recently, transporting them halfway around the world and back in time by more than a half-century....more... A New Rap (Backstage.com) The long tradition of singers and musicians forging acting careers has met with mixed results. Sure, Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand won Oscars -- for that matter, so has Eminem -- but does anyone remember Joan Jett's movie debut opposite Michael J. Fox in the 1987 bomb...more... |