The wakeup song has been a part of the space program since the days of the Apollo missions. The National Aeronautics and Space Program (NASA) has launched NASA’s Space Rock, a contest to help select the two wakeup songs to be played during the 133rd (and final) flight (STS-133) of the Space Shuttle Program! The two songs with the most votes will be played during the STS-133 mission. There are two ways to participate.
Vote on NASA’s Top 40 Previous WakeupSongs. Listen to and vote on your favorite song from a list of 40 previously played wakeup songs.
Write a Song and Submit Your Own Original Work. Submit your original song by January 10, 2011. Entries will be screened by our NASA panel. The top entries will then be posted on their website for a public vote starting on February 8, 2011.
I’ve narrowed my choices to these songs:
Free Fallin
Good Day Sunshine
Here Comes The Sun
Learning to Fly
Magic Carpet Ride
Over the Rainbow
Rocket Man
Roll With It
Start Me Up
What a Wonderful World
Students at the 2010 Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf & Hard of Hearing in Computing, at the University of Washington, will show the results of their work in Animation at the Community Premiere on Friday, August 20, at 7 PM, , followed by a dessert social in the adjoining Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering. Doors open at 6:30 PM; limit 140 persons. This event will be held in room 125 of the Electrical Engineering Building (EEB), on the central UW campus near the fountain. The following two maps can show you the location of the EEB.
Map of the entire UW campus
Close-up map of the north central UW campus
If you wish to park a car on campus, visitor parking is $12.00 per day (evening parking is $5).
This is an academic presentation of Summer Academy students’ achievement in animation, and is not intended for younger audiences.
Also to be shown on this evening will be video highlights of the Summer Academy, describing the students’ progress. Ten of the brightest deaf and hard of hearing students from all over the United States have been attending the 9-week Academy, where they participated in classes in computer programming and animation, as well as meeting deaf and hard of hearing role models already working in computing. This program is part of AccessComputing, a joint project of DO-IT and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, with funding from the National Science Foundation.
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Amazon has free eBooks for Kindle in their Free Book Collections that include free classics and out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books, as well as limited-time free promotional books available for Kindle or with a Free Kindle app (for PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, or Android)
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Each week through September 14, 2010, Barnes Barnes & Noble will make a limited selection of Classics eBooks available at no charge. The titles will change weekly and will be determined in Barnes & Noble’s sole discretion. To learn more about which Classics are available, go to www.bn.com/freelibrary each week. In order to take advantage of this offer, customers must have a valid bn.com account and BN eReader enabled device. For those who do not have a bn.com account or BN eReader, please follow the prompts to create an account and download the eReader App for free. This offer is for a limited time only, subject to change or discontinuation without notice.
B&N also offers other free eBooks as well as many titles for under $5 as well as a free B&N reader.
Starbucks turns on free Wi-Fi today at U.S. and Canadian company-operated stores. Customers with Wi-Fi-enabled laptops and mobile phones will have unlimited Internet access to surf the Web and connect with social networks at their neighborhood Starbucks. The new, unlimited Wi-Fi offering features a one-click entry point, so a username or password will not be required.
Up until today, the free Wi-Fi benefit was limited to two hours a day and available only to members of the My Starbucks Rewards program.
In the tradition of the Martha Stewart Living Radio Thanksgiving Hotline, comes the first annual Martha Stewart Living Radio Grilling Hotline, a 10-hour marathon featuring some of the biggest names in the worlds of grilling and BBQ who will share tips, tricks, and recipes and take questions from listeners across the country as the summer entertaining season kicks off.
Just in time for Memorial weekend barbecues is a free (PDF) download of Martha Stewart Living Radio’s Free Grilling Book the first annual grilling cookbook featuring acclaimed chefs and experts. The recipe collection covers everything from starters, salads, and sides to desserts and summer drinks along with plenty of ideas for savory sidesburgers, steaks and chicken.
The dowload is available from XM/Sirius Radio, which features the Martha Stewart radio show. You can choose to download Martha Stewart’ free grill book in full, or you may prefer to get select chapters from the XM Radio site.
Courtesy of San Diego on the Cheap.
