Monday, July 27, 2009

Million Dollar Que$tion$


Mental_Floss has a Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Quiz.
On August 9, Regis Philbin and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? return to prime-time on ABC for a special two-week run. To celebrate, here are twelve million-dollar questions from past episodes. We can't offer you any lifelines, and if you get them all right, we're not going to pay you the $13,040,000 (or the 20,000,000 rupees) that these 12 contestants earned. But you have our permission to daydream about what you'd buy with that money for the rest of the afternoon.
Click the image above to take the quiz.

The Daily Show: The One Reason I Wish I Had Cable

NBC's Brian Williams on Jon Stewart.
Brian Williams discusses journalistic integrity, praises Walter Cronkite's legacy and arm wrestles Jon.


Turn Your Cell Phone Into A Medical Instrument

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are proving that a camera phone can capture far more than photos of people or pets at play. They have now developed a cell phone microscope, or CellScope, that not only takes color images of malaria parasites, but of tuberculosis bacteria labeled with fluorescent markers.

Click the image to read the article.

Thanks To Keith at BagOfNothing

How A Quarterback Works On His Accuracy

I got a chuckle out of this...



Thanks To Keith at BagOfNothing

Mariachi + Michael Jackson = YouTube

If only the videographer would have resisted the urge to sing along...



Thanks To Keith at BagOfNothing

The Gifts Of Vietnam

Kevin Colón is a church planter whose church works alongside ours in Vietnam. He wrote a blog post today about the things he has gotten from his trips there. I thought he said it better than I ever could so I am providing a link to his blogpost here. Just click the picture to read it.

Thanks Kevin!