043012WarmUp

Did you ever feel like you just want to talk to somebody? How about a ChatBot?

Yak all you want @

http://mybot.a-i.com/mybot.aspx?id=u@G@LLQUDbk0/BbORusKORyZ5TTF9w1nVfYG0HVdeUk
http://www.santabot.com/
http://www.square-bear.co.uk/games/bot.htm
http://www.travisjmorgan.com/bot/zen.html
http://chat.jabberwacky.com/george
http://www.virsona.com/index.aspx

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dmac

042712WarmUp

What everyone needs in their life is more music!


Try it out @

http://www.nyphilkids.org/games/minuetmixer/minuet9.php?id=&dist=
http://soundbadge.net/
http://contrapunctus.thirdangle.org/
http://www.zefrank.com/xmas/
http://www.tvokids.com/framesets/play.html?game=94
http://www.nimsisland.com/animaljukebox.html
http://www.buildupper.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/fun/sixmixer/
http://www.kisstunes.com/m2/page1.aspx
http://www.glitchscape.com/
http://handsonlycpr.org/symphony/

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dmac

042612WarmUp

What's the weather going to be like today? Sunny with a chance of--word cloud.

Try it out @

http://www.wordle.net/
http://www.tagxedo.com/

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dmac

042512WarmUp

Ever feel like performing knee surgery? Check it out @ http://www.edheads.org/

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042412WarmUp

Today is the 132nd birthday of Gideon Sundback. Who is he? And what did he invent that, in it's own small way, has had an enormous effect on making a lot of things that we do and use much easier.

He's even on the Google Doodle for today.

Check it out @

https://www.google.com/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/24/gideon-sundback-zipper-engineer-google-doodle_n_1448482.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/24/gideon-sundback-celebrated-google-doodle?newsfeed=true

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/is-the-gideon-sundback-google-doodle-2012s-best-yet/251721-11.html

Look up his bio @

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Sundback

How does his invention work?

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/how-the-gideon-sundback-zipper-works/251686-11.html

What's the controversy?

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Pioneers/2012/0424/Google-honors-Gideon-Sundback-Father-of-the-zipper


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dmac

042312WarmUp

Yesterday was Earth Day. What is it?

Check it out @ http://www.sos-usa.org/get-involved/holiday-traditions/Pages/Earth-Day-at-SOS.aspx?gclid=CJuEoe6Zy68CFQjd4AodQTReYQ

and

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/beautiful-earth-day/

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dmac

041212WarmUp

Continuing to follow the billion dollar acquisition of Instagram by Facebook, take a look at these articles and try to determine what Facebook was thinking and how Instagram is reacting:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/on-instagram-backlash-about-facebook-acquistion/?ref=technology

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/technology/facebook-plays-offense-and-defense-by-buying-instagram.html?_r=1&ref=technology

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/technology/instagram-deal-is-billion-dollar-move-toward-cellphone-from-pc.html?ref=technology

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