1031WarmUp

Boo! Did I scare ya? It's Halloween!

Discover the origin of Halloween @ http://www.history.com/minisites/halloween/viewPage?pageId=713.

Do a creepy crossword @ http://www.apples4theteacher.com/crossword-puzzles/halloween/creepycrossword.html.

Trick or treat.

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1030WarmUp

Happy Birthday! How old are you? Really? Are you sure?

Check out these age calculators
@ http://www.mathcats.com/explore/agecalculator.html
and http://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/VirtualAge.php
and http://www.obfocus.com/calculators/gender.htm
and http://www.growyouthful.com/quiz.php.

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1029WarmUp

In life, what you see is not necessarily what you get!

Check out these optical illusions @ http://www.optillusions.com/.

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1028WarmUp

Read what some high school kids are doing for science projects this year @ http://web.mit.edu/inventeams/news.html .

Check out the InvenTeam website @ http://web.mit.edu/inventeams/ .

Leave a comment with your idea about what you'd like to do for a tech/science project.

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1024WarmUp

Know how to change a tire, throw a spiral or survive a flood?

Check out the 100 skills everyone should know @ http://www.popularmechanics.com/home_journal/how_to/4284709.html?page=1

Browse the 100 essential skills then take the quiz @ http://www.popularmechanics.com/home_journal/how_to/4279507.html.

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1023WarmUp

M. C. Escher is one of the first "graphic" artists known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints featuring impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture and tessellations.

Sound interesting?

Check out his bio @ http://www.mcescher.com/.

Check out his gallery @http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/gallery-recogn.htm.

Take a virtual ride through 3 of his works @ http://www.mcescher.com/Downloads/downloads.htm.

Check out his official website @ http://www.mcescher.com/.

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1022WarmUp

Ever wonder what happens when you donate your body to science? Meet 39-year-old Joseph Paul Jernigan. In life he was a convicted murderer. In death he's the ultimate anatomical specimen.

Take a look at Joe @ http://www.exploratorium.edu/bodies/vhuman.html or try http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/visible_human.html or http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_gallery.html.

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1021WarmUp

What are the top High Tech companies in the Boston area?

See a list @ http://edu.bostonglobe.com/content/iBrowse/unibrowse/nsapp/edm-reader.html?user_id=ddemarco@revere.mec.edu&password=damian2918&issue_id=1088264&lib_server=edu.bostonglobe.com&livestat=edm&lang_id=en

Research a company on the Net to see what they do.

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1020WarmUp

What is a binary number and what does it have to do with computers? Look it up @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system.

What is binary arithmetic? Look it up @ http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/courses/CSCI1200-96/binary.html.

Watch a video @ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4095362371619203352.

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1017WarmUp

What's a theremin? You may not have heard of it but i'll bet you've heard it! Check it out @ http://www.thereminworld.com/.

Look at some other futuristic musical instruments @ http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/multimedia/2008/10/gallery_futuristic_music?slide=1&slideView=2

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1016WarmUp

Passwords are the keys that open the doors to the digital world. Read about creating effective passwords @ http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/password/create.mspx.
Look up the most common passwords @ http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2113976,00.asp and http://blog.jimmyr.com/Most_Common_Passwords_20_2008.php.
Then test your own @ http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/password/checker.mspx.

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1014WarmUp

Words of wisdom, words of encouragement, words of sympathy.

Words, words, words... Use Wordle to create a word cloud. Check it out @ http://wordle.net/create.

Leave some words.

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1010WarmUp

The Blue Screen of Death! What is it? Radiation from space? A new pandemic eminating from the east? The insidious weapon of an evil villain?

Could it happen to you? (BSOD-it probably already has!)

Check it out @ http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/10/photos-blue-scr.html

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1009WarmUp

Read the article: Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the World @ http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/15-07/ff_maps

Look up the company, Microsoft Corp, on the net and find out where the company is located.

Go to Google maps @ http://www.google.com/ and visit their corporate offices in California. Then look up Microsoft's Massachusetts office and visit it using street view.

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1008WarmUp

What's your carbon footprint? Find out at http://www.carbonfootprint.com/. Write a comment telling us how much it's going to cost you to offset your carbon footprint.

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0107WarmUp

What's the Mars rover up to? Check it out @ http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html. Leave a comment.

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1006WarmUp

What's a smoot? When was it invented? By whom? Check it out @

http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2008/10/05/frat_found_measure_of_pleasure_in_smoots/

How long in smoots is SeaCoast? (The main corridor is 332.5 feet long.)

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1003WarmUp

Know how to googlewhack? Check it out @ http://www.googlewhack.com/rules.htm then create your own whackstack!

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1002WarmUp

What's Clickjacking? Should you worry about it? You bet!

Look @ http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/A_Look_at_the__Clickjacking__Web_Attack_and_Why_You_Should_Worry

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1001WarmUp

Use your Internet search skills to answer the following question:

Which is the largest country, geographically, that has the smallest population?

Create an Excel spreadsheet with the info you need and save as 1001WarmUp.

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p.s.

Check out an interesting spreadsheet @ http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2007/1511_ff_cannonball_xls