This comic strip of Jurassic Trek makes fun of the McCoy's fear of transporters ;-) (original archive here)

Well...seems like LiveMocha is going away.  The approach that I liked about LiveMocha was that it utilized social networking, and networks, for the purposes of language learning.  So, me - being a native speaker of Greek and English, I could earn points by teaching others those languages and  I could use those points to the in turn learn something new.  It allowed someone

My team and I just finished presenting on Assignment 2 for our Leadership course this past week.  In going through my notes, collected over the past month of meetings and preparation for this assignment, I came across the term 'soul-sucking leadership'.  It's not a leadership theory at the moment, but hey - maybe we can coin a definition and become famous ;-)  What do you think? (actual

LOL - a short film about Java going away.  I think with the impending end-of-life of the JRE plugin for browsers this is pretty funny.

Who said politicians can't be funny?

A while back I (and others) had seen this commercial on the internet which basically shows a couple of engineers (of the mythbusters kind - very unconventional ;-) ) making friend shrimp by blowing shrimp out of an air cannon into batter, breadcrumbs, and over a flame. Then, they enjoy some nice fried shrimp.  This seemed implausible, but the mythbusters in their final season tackled it. 

I am starting to like to Call of Duty franchise :-) I have not played their World War II games, mostly because I don't like that era for this type of game, but who knows, once I am done with whatever I can play on my xbox 360 from this series, I might go back and revisit the first 3 CoD games (plus world at war), which take place in WWII. Anyway,  In Call of Duty Black Ops II story is

I was looking around the web to see if I can find anything on the Leadership in the fictitious universe of Star Trek.  It was more of a tangential thing, a "cool to have" for my leadership portfolio for my EdD course.  Hey, if you can't incorporate pop culture into school, what sort of fun can you have? ;-)  I came across this video from Forbes.  Wonder if there is something

The Crossing, which I think is the penultimate episode of Star Trek Farragut (or is it Starship Farragut?) is now available on YouTube! And, guess what?  It's a mirror universe episode!  Can you tell I like the mirror universe cross-overs? ;-) I am wondering if their next endeavor is going to use the Wrath of Khan style uniforms, or if they are going with those funky 70s inspired Motion

This comic strip of Jurassic Trek makes fun of the (many?) times there were transporter issues on the Enterprise (might still be under warranty...) (original archive here)