Snigdha Nandipati, 14, of San Diego, California, crowned the new Scripps National Spelling Bee champion in Oxon Hill, Maryland Thursday night! Snigdha aced the word “guetapens,” a French-derived word that means an ambush or a trap, to outlast 8 other finalists and claim the trophy along with more than $40,000 in cash and prizes. Americans [...]
video platform video management video solutions video player First Lady Michelle Obama has waged a battle against childhood obesity since arriving at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue by planting vegetables on the White House lawn, dancing with children at “Move Your Body” events, and urging us all to eat healthier. Now, the first lady has published a [...]
Regis Philbin, sitting in for Piers Morgan this past Tuesday, in his return to hosting after leaving “Regis and Kelly” got his friend David Letterman to open up about fatherhood, politics, his career, his friendship with the late Johnny Carson and more. When Philbin asked Letterman to take him back to the beginning of his [...]
makeymakey.com introduces a simple device that transforms nearly any physical object into a touch pad to execute commands on your keyboard. The technology was created by Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum, two final-year PhD students at the MIT Media Lab. Just to give an idea of what their device can do, this video features a [...]
Dario Franchitti put his name in the record books by winning his third Indy 500 on Sunday, a day that started and ended as a tribute to Dan Wheldon, who won the race a year ago but was killed in an October crash in the IndyCar season finale. He is just the seventh driver to [...]
STANDING GUARD! Memorial Day weekend, and this picture taken at the National Cemetery in Minneapolis, Minnesota on a summer morning – as it appeared in the Minneapolis Star/Tribune, says it all! This Budweiser commercial from a few years ago where an airport crowd spontaneously rises to their feet in applause as they spot our troops [...]
