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I have created my own library. My current faves are Stephenie Meyer's vampire sage and "old" Stephen King novels. Cell especially creeped me out. It is entirely plausible to me that the human race could be infected by a virus sent through cell phone waves.

This week's exercises include using an image generator to make your own individual art. I choose to us BigHugeLabs.com to make a Warhol inspired homage to my daughter's rowing team who won a Bronze medal at the Head of the Cuyahoga regatta last weekend. Hope you like the finished product; try it yourself, it's fun once you get the hang of it.

Exercise 9 of Play and Learn deals with finding feeds that you might like to subscribe to. There were several search engines provided for us to browse through. I choose to search for rowing;

definition: 1 : the propelling of a boat by means of oars : the action of one that rows
2 : the sport of racing in shells

My daughter participates in high-school rowing and I simply do not know enough about it yet.

The first engine I checked out was Bloglines which I did not find too helpful.

I like the layout and design of Topix, Syndic8 and Technorati. They will all very neat and easy to follow.

I found it extremely interesting that Syndic8 offers fresh news in six different languages!

The engine with the most useful information about rowing proved to be Technorati, including this extremely helpful video. Enjoy

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UXnKyJdA01w

Ah, Play and Learn. It's an exercise all about teaching us how to use the internet. The latest exercise has been to teach us about bloglines, which is this nifty little site which helps us to collect RSS feeds so we can keep up with the world.

Back to favorite words, how about futile, definition:

1. incapable of producing any result; ineffective; useless; not successful: Attempting to force-feed the sick horse was futile.
2. trifling; frivolous; unimportant.

I don't even have the time to read all the magazines I subscribe to so I am positive I will never have time to read feeds on the internet. When, and if, I get the chance to read, I like to do it old school, with a book in my hand.