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My biography as written by 2 11th graders at a high school i subtitute taught at yesterday:

Hi! my name is orris Konheim. i was born in utah and i grew up in a great town! elementary school was pretty good.

but it was in 6th grade that things started to make

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Computers & Technology > Website Reviews Best of 2008: Website: 1 of 23
The internet is a revolutionary invention that makes our lives easier and better, but only at the limit of the innovators who make that happen. I am constantly surprised by how the new medium of the internet is evolving and developing new ways of improving on past ideas. Some of the most innovative and impactful websites of 2... More..
Entertainment > Hollywood & Movie Industry The Hollywood summer blockbuster formula: 1 of 19
Five years ago, Spiderman burst into movie theaters across the country an unpredented three weekends before Memorial day. Boasting a head start over the rest of the summer films, an unlikely choice for the lead in Tobey MaGuire, and a legion of comic book aficianados eager for the movie's release, the film made movie history ... More..
Computers & Technology > Internet Trends YouTube: Can it make money?: 1 of 17
In a way, youtube has already made money because the two programmers who created youtube sold the company to google for $1.65 billion in 2006 so they are already rich. The burden now falls onto google and google is not making money on youtube at all. Because, google is financially successful overall, they can afford to keep y... More..
Sports & Recreation > Sports & Recreation (Other) Best of 2008: Sporting event: 1 of 15
The 2008 Olympics is an obvious choice for sporting event of the year as is any Olympics. There is no other sporting event with the power to stop wars, grow cities into global prominence, or provide worldwide opportunities to compete. Besides, the Olympics is also older than most of civilization. My favorite thing about the O... More..
Local Guides > Washington DC A guide to using Washington DC's Metro: 1 of 10
Background:Washington D.C.'s five-line metrorail system is one of the largest, cleanest, and most efficient mass transit systems in the country because it represents the best of the old and new. It has grown over thirty years into a multi-line system and has improved and grown constantly over that time pperiod. At the same ti... More..
Sports & Recreation > Summer Olympics Best track and field athletes in Olympic history: 1 of 10
Because there are so many track and field athletes to cover, I will only stick to the male athletes and in another edition, I might write about the female athletes as well. Although one can never really compare one athletic hero to another, here is an effort at a ranked list of Olympic heroes in the sport of track and field w... More..
Entertainment > Television (Other) Best of 2008: TV show (Comedy): 2 of 17
Best feel-good sitcom: My Name is Earl, NBCDating back to the Andy Giffith Show and Leave it to Beaver, TV sitcoms historically were about presenting good wholesome images of Americana. Sitcoms all the way up to the 90's like Family Values, Step by Step and Full House followed up in this tradition as each episode would end wi... More..
Entertainment > Movie Remakes & Adaptations Ten movies that should be remade and why: 2 of 17
There have been a saturation of remakes in the past decade, and three of my picks are among these remakes that never really capitalized on the possibilities of the original:1. Around the World in 80 Days (1956): The 2004 remake was a Jackie Chan film with his combination slapstick martial arts comedy geared towards kids. Movi... More..
Entertainment > TV Show Reviews TV show reviews: The Apprentice: 1 of 7
One thing that's interesting about The Apprentice is that if companies are all about maintaining faith in your product for the sake of your investors, part of what The Apprentice is all about is making Donald Trump look good at all costs. And aside from that Donald Trump probably just likes being made to look good anyway. He'... More..
Entertainment > Movie Remakes & Adaptations Arguments for and against movie remakes: 9 of 59
In the last few years, Hollywood has been flooded with so many remakes and sequels that the popular perception that Hollywood is out of original ideas is being rapidly reinforced. With that in mind, if mainstream Hollywood wants to avoid perpetuating the image that its output is overly commercialized and looking in substance,... More..