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On April 15, 2013 two bombs exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon at 2:49 PM. The bombs ended up killing 3 people and injuring more than 250, marking it as the deadliest domestic terrorist attack in the last ten years for the United States. In the days following, a massive manhunt for […]

Intro Back in August of 2012 Apple set the record for the most valuable publicly traded company on the stock market with a market capitalization of 621 billion dollars. A graph (from 1999 to 2012) of Apple’s and Microsoft’s market cap over the past few years. Courtesy of The Wall Street Journal The record had […]

I found this program interesting. For some reason it reminds me of clip art that could be used for powerpoint presentations. By that I mean the simplicity of it and ease of use. I feel like it could be a precursor to something much easier to use with animation. I have no idea what kind […]

I remember when I was in high school and my teacher gave out an extra credit opportunity to anyone in his class who could find the source of a particular quotation he had. I can’t remember the exact quote anymore but I remember writing it down and having the determination to find out who it […]

Clever title right? It’s a bit cliche but at this point isn’t powerpoint? I haven’t used powerpoint in a while. The main reason may be that my teachers are no longer that into it. Even in high school I had teachers that didn’t like it. Now, teachers will explicitly say how they want it to […]

Hello China   Looking up a little bit about Nicholas Felton, its clear that he has a pretty big influence on the internet today. I like the fact that he is involved with changing the way people use infographics and data. When you click the “About” section of his page you can see that he […]

    I enjoyed visiting the  Hypercities, PhilaPlace, Euclid Corridor History Project websites and browsing them. I think it is very interesting that there are websites like this out in the world and organizations willing to take the time to make historical information like this available to all. I’m sure that there is an advantage for these cities like […]

I really am fascinated by Google. I love how they run their business. I think that they are extremely creative and have a very good attitude when it comes to other people being creative. The fact that they provide so many things for free is crazy to me. Google Documents (now called Google Drive) is […]

  I have always found the world of computer hacking very interesting. I remember reading about a famous hacker named Kevin Mitnick a few years ago and being fascinated. What really intrigued me was how Mitnick went about hacking. He focused on “social engineering” at first  and I don’t think the average person would’ve guessed […]

The video about the sampling of “Amen Break” was very interesting to me. I have heard about the piece of music before and I find the whole concept of sampling music important to more than just the music world.  The narrator of the youtube video, Nate Harrison, does a good job of explaining how this one piece of music […]