President Obama watches as U.S. Olympian Tim Morehouse fences at a White House event that celebrated the Olympics,
President Barack Obama visited Denmark to pitch the plan to bring the 2016 Olympic Games to his home city of Chicago. The White House announced yesterday that President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama would be traveling to Copenhagen for Chicago’s final presentation to the International Olympic Committee. Hopefully the Windy City Will be the home of The Olympics.
Draft'ish 3D rendering of Taft
Microsoft’s response to Google’s maps takes a fundamentally different approach to giving the user a better idea of where they are. Instead of going around the city with a car and taking pictures of everything, bing maps used planes to survey over 300 cities from different angles and mapped them into a bird’s eye view of the city. This approach provides a middle ground between a satellite view and a street view.
Now you have 4 different ways of looking at your favorite school, bird’s eye view, street view, satellite, and 3d. Oh, did i forget to mention 3d? Silly me. With the information gathered from the satellites and planes, it is not hard to imagine how a company could build 3d models out of buildings, Including our own school. The downside is that you have to use Internet Explorer and download a plug-in for it.
Now if only we could see what is inside the school.
It seems that Microsoft has managed to stir up some fuss about its new search engine. Sites such as Blind Search and bing vs Google have been the result of the popular demand for an effective way to tell them apart. However, for most popular search terms the results seem to be almost exactly the same in a slightly different order.
Message from the White House
Here is an excerpt:
“Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don’t know something, and to learn something new. So find an adult you trust – a parent, grandparent or teacher; a coach or counselor – and ask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals.
And even when you’re struggling, even when you’re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you – don’t ever give up on yourself. Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/