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The Alice Project - Make Your Own Movie With The Sims

The Alice project is part of the legacy of Randy Pausch, a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon university, currently dying of cancer, who is famous for his Last Lecture. Alice 3.0, to be released this year, will allow users to create animations using Sims.

7 comments    technology education children
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Best books for gift, a complete review. #1

I will use Hubpages to publicize my books reviews. This one is just the first from a serie of many more that will present a nice list of books. Apart from being great ideas for present, these titles...

0 comments    review gifts book
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The Last Lecture-Dr. Randy Pausch

I saw Randy Pausch's Last Lecture on You Tube, about a year ago. I would strongly recommend for anyone with a teenager in the household to watch this and share it with their teenage child. I have this...

9 comments    computer science randy pausch
Smoking Cigars with Sip and Jon in London56

Isn't Life Interesting

I have to say that life is quite interesting. I've never been to big a blogger or MySpace or YouTube kind of guy. Always to busy. But that has changed. Well, not the busy stuff, but some of the things in life...

1 comment    travel careers real estate
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Easy Ways to Create a Personalized Book For Your Child

Randy Pausch and "The Last Lecture" became a phenomenon- this professor wrote his last lecture after he got news of his terminal cancer. His lecture spread across the web, he was a guest on the Oprah show...

3 comments    entertainment life advice
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Elusive Nature of Fun

We do many things in the pursuit of fun. The man who gave that famous speech on Oprah just before he died cited 'fun' as being high on his priority list even though his days were numbered. Randy Pausch's...

2 comments    life family children
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Do You Enjoy What You Are Doing

Dr Randy Pausch died yesterday at the age of 47. I have been following his news and drawing strength from his straightforward approach to life, cancer and dying. Turning 47 later this year myself, I couldn’t...

0 comments    life fun death
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Must Read Books Of 2008, A Top 10 List... sort of

I’ll attempt to give a list of the top ten best books for 2008 sort of. I say “sort of” because there is definitely more than 10 books that deserve to be reviewed as among the best this year. As if...

4 comments    books 2008 top ten
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The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch Gives Life Lessons in His Final Days

At the start of his lecture, Randy Pausch, with little ceremony, acknowledges "the elephant in the room." In his case, the unspeakable is what brought him here to speak; the unspeakable is his cancer. Randy...

2 comments    love life advice
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People YOU SHOULD know...#4

“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand” Few people have impacted our world as significantly as Randy Pausch. A bold statement, I know. But one that I am willing to stand...

0 comments    life inspiration motivation
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