Friday, July 30, 2010

My Super Sweet Sixteen!

Hey, everyone!

1. Word
languid, adjective (LANG•gwid)
Definition: Without energy, vitality or spirit, sluggish
Example: The long and hot summer day lent itself to a languid afternoon.

2. Trivia
Utah's state bird is the California Seagull.

3. Link
5. Download
Launchy: This one's a really cool launcher app that works with a few keystrokes to open programs and files of all kinds. I finally tried it out some days back after hearing praise for years; it took some getting used to in the beginning, but has me drooling over it now. Short story: it definitely deserves to be checked out by all of you.

6. Quotation
"Laughter is inner jogging."
- Norman Cousins
Couldn't help adding this one too:
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
- Anne Frank

7. Green-it!
Maybe not our own yet, but this is a good bunch of tips on inculcating a concern for the environment in kids: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2768382/how_to_teach_kids_to_go_green.html

BONUS: Here's one for the soccer/football fans―Some superhumans from the School of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary, University of London injected a lot of math into FIFA statistics and came up with this:
http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~ht/footballgraphs/press.html

Thank you to all the websites/blogs that have helped me pool the content. And guys, I need your honest bouquets and brickbats!

Enjoy yourselves!
Rise. Shine. Smile.

Thanks,
Creativ3 Bee twitter.com/thecreativ3bee