Thursday, 21 June 2007 @ 5:11pm.
I wanted to share a great quote from Liz Lange, a fashion designer. On The Oprah Show the other day, she said, “Don’t be bogged down by the skills sets you do or do not have.” In finding and maintaining happiness and success, she’s right… Don’t let negativity or skepticism from others (or yourself for that matter) get to you.
While taking a break, I found some cool things on the internet:
Cool Things You Can Do with Google.com: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/cool-things-you-can-do-with-google.html With just a few key words or special terms after the address “www.google.com,” you can do some pretty amazing stuff.
American Film Institute (AFI) has a program called “AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies.” Go to http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/movies.aspx to see the list of top American movies of our time. How many have you seen? 
American First Ladies Picture Gallery: At http://womenshistory.about.com/od/firstladiesus/ig/First-Ladies-Picture-Gallery/index.htm you can see pictures of several women who have made a difference, and some of the quotes are incredible. For example, Abigail Adams, the First Lady of the United States from 1797-1801, was married to John Adams, who was the second U.S. President. She said, “It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to… Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.”
Random Websites: Just for the heck of it you can go to this site http://www.randomwebsite.com/ and it will generate a random link for you. Some of the sites it points you to are probably not that useful, but occasionally there’s something fascinating.
Okay, and now for some cool things on the internet that are not so American (guess I was feeling a little homesick and didn’t realize it!):
Got the travel bug? Wanna escape even if just for a moment while you’re behind a desk? Check out http://www.lonelyplanet.com, http://www.tourismindonesia.com/, or http://www.australia.com/. You’ll find plenty of interesting educational information at these sites, too.
The Best of African Songs: http://www.emusic.com/album/Safari-Sound-Band-The-Best-of-African-Songs-MP3-Download/10881139.html
Top 100 Foreign Films: http://www.foreignfilms.com/
United Nations: http://www.un.org/
