Archive forMay, 2009

Staunton teen heads to Washington for national spelling bee (The News Virginian)

Andrew Traylor could be the X-factor in this week’s Scripps National Spelling Bee.

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Disciple Is A Real-Time Player-To-Player Fantasy Battlefield For Adults (TechCrunch)

Casual head to head games, also known as synchronous or real-time games, are becoming increasingly popular on the web. Geewa, Zynga, and Playfish all offer real-time synchronous social games where you can play against another player live, not against the computer. Resistor Productions has merged a synchronous game with role-playing, blood, guts and gore aimed at adults called Disciple. Known as …

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Firefox Could Be the Real Facebook Challenger (ReadWriteWeb)

Firefox doesn’t keep track of the number of users it has but Asa Dotzler, Mozilla’s director of community development, said today that the company estimates that there are 270 million people using the browser. That’s 35% more users than Facebook has signed up for accounts (200 million), and almost triple the number of people Facebook says log in to the social network every day (100 million). Why …

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How to raise a two-year-old genius (The Globe and Mail)

It may sound like a blessing if your toddler is accepted into Mensa, but parents of gifted kids say nurturing them can be ‘the biggest challenge in the world’

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Sterling family remembers child’s love of life (The Norwich Bulletin)

The following statement was issued Sunday by Robin Seaman and Nicole Howard, grandmother and mother of William Howard, 13, who was killed Saturday in a biking accident.

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