Happy 1 Trillion, Internet!

Internet has reached one trillion unique web pages.
Too bad you will never see the above message any time soon because Google has announced it has indexed over 1 trillion sites.
This is huge literally and metaphorically.
It would seem at this rate of growth the internet will contain just about every piece of information out there.
Soon there won't be a single fact that only exists on paper.
If you're reading this there's no doubt that you've contributed to the internet's vast knowledge database somehow.
I guess there's nothing to celebrate until Google hits the 1 quadrillion mark.
I can't wait!

What You Missed: It's Not Much

Here's a list of events that happened that you probably don't care about:

• I finished my first semester at U of M and at least passed my classes
• I'm a member of The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Student Government
• I am a shoe-in for the webmaster position of LSASG
• I am on the Energy theme year committee trying to find websites concerning green living along with alternative energy and its conservation
• My first college roommate was a douche and, contrary to popular opinion, I would give up that experience for anything
• I got a Wii!
• My family threw my grandpa a 90th birthday party and he received a Wii also
  
• I became addicted to Tribal Wars (don't look into it, you'll just get sucked in too)
• My love for the internet grew stronger in an unhealthy, obsessed kind of way
• I'm trying to earn money by doing online surveys; not so gr8 ackshully
• I found out I have TMJ so I'm on a soft food diet until my jaw joints can be popped back into their proper locations
  
• I finally know what day it is because I have a day clock now!

Ok, you're basically all caught up now.
I mean, I could talk about what I've been watching on TV, what music I recently downloaded, and all the cool things I've discovered while on the internet but I wouldn't want to bore you.

I've Been Away for How Long?!

Being the random person that I am, I googled myself today and stumbled upon my own blog, stemr.
I thought to myself, "my god, how long has it been since my last post?"
Too long.
When college kicked in I thought I wouldn't have enough time to do anything but study and breathe (no room for eating or sleeping).
As it turned out, I had more time on my hand than I knew what to do with.
I shouldn't have had any time really since I found out late in the first semester that I was failing most of my classes.
I suppose I could blame video games, the internet, or tv but it was truly my fault.
For some reason, I simply stopped posting on my own blog.
It was probably out of sheer boredom with a heaping amount of distraction, a dash of ADD, and a liberal sprinkling of procrastination.
A recipe for disaster.
I think that maybe I need to change up what I blog about.
Instead of pretending that this is a well established blog I should just keep it simple.
So I'm going to try to just speak my mind and as dull as that may be to you at least I'll keep interest even for just a little longer.
At any rate, I'm back and hopefully I can squeeze in an hour out of the 12 hours of nothingness that comes with each day to post on stemr.

List 2

I'm beginning to like this list idea instead of blogging about each topic individually. If you have a comment stating that this new style is good or bad you know where to put it.

• Stop doing sit-ups! Stand straight, feet shoulder width apart, tighten up your abs (and keep them tense), slowly lift 5-15 lb. weights with arms straight out in front, hiss as you exhale, and "do this until you fall over."
• Canada has discovered that DRM (a hidden system on purchased media content that encrypts data limiting it to strict uses) can take private information about you and give it to third parties without your consent.
• An amplified photon thruster could shorten trip to Mars has scientists ecstatic.
• Putting pressure on special floor tiles can generate electricity which can power dance clubs simply by people dancing.
• Using adult stem cells instead of six day old embryos may just be the key to curing millions of Americans of numerous disorders and illnesses.
• Curcumin, the main ingredient in curry spice turmeric, could be just as potent as pharmaceutical drugs when it comes to killing cancer.
• The same ingredients found in sheet rock, shampoo, and rocket fuel along with sorbic acid, which is derived from natural gas, are used to make a Twinkie.
• Soil can be easily converted into organic soil, used to make organic produce, but consumers just won't pay those high prices even though costs would decrease if more people supported these foods.

Mega List of Interesting Things

Since I have little time to write up a full summarized report on all the really sweet inventions and secrets I've come across while at college, I'm just gonna put them all in one big list.

• Have someone else take over your cell phone contract, get a temporary one, and find a better plan without having to wait for the contract to end.
• Create a visually appealing virtual desktop with myGoya just in case your real desktop isn't enough.
• Chat with people looking at the same website as you or leave messages for others to read about the website with Chatsum or Xpanity.
• Cooking 16 healthy burgers at home is cheaper than buying 16 fattening, sodium filled McDonald's burgers.
• With the way we're using resources, the earth is expected to "expire" by 2050.
• If heated at 680 degrees, a teflon coated pan WILL release toxic gases that can make you ill or possible cause death.
• British scientists are positive that they have created a "miracle tube" that can cut heating bills in half because it produces more energy than is put into it.
• A technology that can possibly fit over 1 terabyte (20 times larger than a full Blu-ray disk) of data onto a single disk could end the Blu-ray vs HD-DVD battle.
• Turn any laptop into a tablet pc with this cool pen.
• Quantum computer technology can greatly increase processing power and speed on normal computers.
• Magnetically powered refrigerator that doesn't need electricity to come out in 2010.
• Anti-aging pill could be on the market in 10 years by forcing the activation of the SIRT2 gene normally activated through eating a strict low-calorie diet.
  
• "Pollution-eating cement" actually speeds up the chemical process of turning air pollutants into less dangerous compounds like water, carbon dioxide, and nitrates.
• Bottle turns dirty water into clean drinking water in seconds without constantly changing the filter will prove valuable to millions of people.
• Pee powered batteries are reusable up to 10 years but only give out a third of the power that alkaline batteries produce.
• Clever student came up with a way to create power by adding odd looking wind turbines to highways that rotate when cars pass underneath making a lot of energy.
• Ethanol as a fuel source is a scam because it costs almost as much as gasoline and while "our current ethanol production represents only 3.5 percent of our gasoline consumption... it consumes twenty percent of the entire U.S. corn crop, causing the price of corn to double..."
• Sugar cane is MUCH more efficient than ethanol as a fuel source but with so high tariffs how can we even get it over here?
• Vehicles can run on compressed air leaving behind no pollutants and can go extremely long distances at speeds up to 135 mph on a single tank while refueling takes a matter of hours over night.
• Burning salt water using radio waves may be the next big, not to mention abundant, fuel source.
• Apparently smart people tend to be liberal while the not-so-educated people will most likely be conservative says this study.
• Student punished for wearing religious attire while school thinks it's disruptive.
• "Bush Administration Says Warrantless Eavesdropping Cannot Be Questioned"
• Leaders of America, Canada, and Mexico could be planning to combine all three countries into a very frightening and all powerful super-government.
• The Federal Reserve is an illegal private bank creating money out of thin air while convincing people for nearly 100 years that a piece of paper has value.
• Government is using authorities to crush opponents in order to create a Police State through Operation FALCON.
• The facts about 9/11 are alarming to the point that our government could have perpetrated or at least allowed it to happen.
• The best way to keep Americans ignorant to what's going on and to not question the government is to have political debates but limit the spectrum of topics to give the illusion of free thinking when it's really just propaganda.
• Speak out, and actually be heard, for or against something with YouMob.