Visual Word Cloud of Obama's Inaugural Speech + Wordles of Bush, Clinton, Reagan, and Lincoln . . .

What words were used most often? The folks at Read Write Web ran the full text of Obama's speech through tag cloud generator Wordle.net for one view of the event, and just for the sake of historical context they ran George W. Bush's second inaugural speech plus those of Clinton, Reagan and Lincoln through as well.

This is soooo interesting! Be sure to view the others on Read Write Web.

Life's Little Instruction Book, page 10 . . .

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"Malcolm S. Forbes Quote" + Free Font to Download . . .

More information about the author of this quote.

The interesting font I used is called ECOFONT, designed to save ink.

It's a free download here.

The morphing of the Presidents from Washington to Obama [Video] . . .

This is such a cool YouTube video! A friend just sent it to me and I had to share! You will love seeing how some very clever person figured how to morph all the presidents faces ever so seamlessly from George Washington to Barack Obama in less than 4 minutes. It's great!

Life's Little Instruction Book, page 9 . . .

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Recipe for toast . . .

I am eating toast but mine wasn't this much fun to make! I can understand this clever ad completely since my toaster seems to take forever to pop up. You can enlarge the photo.

My wooden toast tongs keep me from burning my fingers or getting electrocuted. Love them!

via Bad Banana Blog

Life's Little Instruction Book, page 8 . . .

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Tomorrow is the big day . . .

It's almost here! View many more photographs of the preparations for tomorrow's inauguration of President Elect Barack Obama at The Big Picture. I don't like calling him PEBO so I won't.

Inaugural ball gowns ~ What will you be wearing? . . .

Isn't this photograph the best? Twins with twins at a debutant ball in Paris. Their dresses by Dominique Sirop would be perfect for the many inaugural balls tomorrow.

What's in your closet?

Life's Little Instruction Book, page 7 . . .

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Obamicon Yourself . . .

I turned my portrait into a Shepard Fairey poster!

Have some fun with your own photos. Turn them into Shepard Fairey posters at a site called Obamicon.Me where you can also customize the caption and adjust the colors. FUN!




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Life's Little Instruction Book, page 6 . . .

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Looking Back: 2008 Horoscopes from Town & Country . . .

Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius

Did these predictions for 2008 come true for you? Mind did. I am a Virgo: "Virgos are never more content than when they can use their abilities to benefit others."

I started my blog in July of 2008 and can only hope it is benefiting others. I am astonished that my horoscope for last year contained word CONTENT. How ironic is that?

A friend just gave me a stack of old magazines. I normally don't read horoscopes, but this article intrigued me.

via Town & Country (April 2008 issue)

Shepard Fairey on The Colbert Report . . .

People Get Ready, There's a Train A-coming . . .

Will this train be stopping at your station?

Eva Cassidy ~ live.
I love her version of this symbolic song.

Today's whistle stop train from Philadelphia to Washington retraces a portion of Abraham Lincoln's route in 1861.

Life's Little Instruction Book, page 5 . . .

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