But, this morning, I discovered University of the People. They’re relatively new and (for now) aren’t charging any fees. Fees are supposed to be very low ($50 or less for application and $100 or less per class, depending on the student’s country). And they only offer two programs at the moment: Business Administration and Computer Science.

Unfortunately, UoP isn’t currently accredited either, so you what you study there might not “count” for later. However, they’re looking to become accredited.

Even if they don’t, their coursework is likely a better option for some people who would like to study but want something slightly more structured than previous free/open university courses offered elsewhere.

I know I plan on applying shortly and even if it never really “counts”, at least I’ll have learned more than I know now.

Writer’s Cafe is a nifty little program that lets you storyboard and brainstorm. It also has a random name generator and a random plot idea generator. There’s an in-program journal as well. If you want to practice writing under a deadline, there’s a timer thing available as well. All in all, it the demo looks to be a nifty little program. The full one is about $60, but it looks to be a good deal for a serious writer.

But now, there are a ton of clips from the actual show that have been uploaded. There are currently 10 or so shows that have been uploaded to YouTube (I haven’t counted exactly). But YouTube does not have the show that I wanted to see. The last show, “A Rodent Ran Through It“.

Why did I want to see this one? If you’re familiar with the show at all, you know that Rockapella was on every episode. There was this guy, that guy, the blond guy and… the guy with the braids. I’m afraid I don’t know who’s who very well. But at the end of the last show of the last season, the host of the show (Greg Lee) cut the braids off of Sean Altman.

This show is not on YouTube!

Fortunately, with a little searching, I was able to find the episode. On a site that I’d never heard of before, called Truveo. I don’t know why I hadn’t heard of it before, it seems pretty cool. It is a video search engine. So not only is the last episode, A Rodent Ran Through It, on there, it lists a total of 350 Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego clips.

Since each individual episode usually makes 2 or 3 clips, that means there are 100+ episodes on there. Though some of them might be clips of the computer game. Are they all different? I don’t know.

There are an additional 763 Carmen Sandiego clips if you use a different search. But this is more likely to include Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego as well as Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego. Either way, enjoy the Carmen Sandiego.

Click here to view the embedded video.

When I first visited, you had to sign up and you could download five PDFs for free every day. This was great! Then they changed it to three PDFs. Okay. Not bad. Still great! Then it was 3 PDFs for a maximum of 30/month. Not great, but still not terrible.

I went back today, after having forgotten for awhile. It’s changed again. I am sad.

Now half the things on my download list (from last time) aren’t even downloadable. The other half, I can read them online but I have to pay from $1-20 to get the PDF. $20? What’s up with that? I could probably get these titles for half that, used, on Amazon or eBay.

Wowio went from a great place to get things to read when I’m bored to a place to mostly only visit when I REALLY want something. Now.

At least I still have the PDFs I downloaded already. HA! Including the awful Star Trek comics, woo!

It’s very good, even if I wish it had ended differently (which I won’t spoil for you; just go see it).

Someone came to my blog searching for ‘remove ads from wowio pdfs’.

You cheater. The ads are there so you get the PDFs for free. But I guess you knew that, right? You want to share the book with a friend? Tell them to go to Wowio and sign up. Wowio is FREE after all.

Or maybe you want to put it up for sale yourself?

Quit ruining things for the rest of us. Really.

It’s a good thing that we live in a computer age now, where with a few clicks you can start playing around with how you might look. Give yourself a celebrity hairstyle, a new makeup job or just see how you’d look if you had a different color of hair. The possibilities are endless at Makeover Solutions.

I’ve been spending the past half hour or so playing with various settings until I’ve found one I think I like. You can see the results below. The picture on the left is the ‘after’ picture and the one on the right is the ‘before’ picture. I changed my hair color to something a bit lighter than the dirty brown color it is now, added a bit of makeup and a pair of glasses. You can’t see them, but I also added a pair of earrings. If I had chosen a different hairstyle, the earrings would be more visible.

There is a ton of choices at Makeover Solutions and I’m tempted to subscribe so that I can get even more choices. Perhaps later, then the next time I go to get my hair cut, I’ll be able to print out what I’ve chosen so that I can have something to show the person.

Contaminated pet food, lead in children’s toys and now… shoes that will give you a nasty chemical burn. When is China going to get their act together?

They’re supposedly barcoding vegetables to track them during the Olympics, in case there is a problem. But, after all this with China, I’d be scared to even go over there right now. Or maybe they’re sending us all the crud and keeping the good stuff for the Olympics.

My theory is that he might have found another family out there who liked him about as much as we did. Unfortunately for them, we had MushyKitty first (having found him as a small kitten in a completely different city). MushyKitty no longer wanders so I cannot strap any cameras to him to document his adventures.

Of course, there is always ‘PorchKitty’, who has recently adopted my porch as his home. Probably helps that I do feed him when I see him out there. Maybe one day…