The Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries have compiled a list of 100 words they recommend all High School graduates should know and they released it as a book.

The intent of this list is to help parents and students measure the readiness of the student by gauging their command of the English language.

Link to the list of 100 words, I have to admit, there are about 15 or so that I can’t use in a sentence, though I’m willing to bet I heard them on West Wing back in the day. :roll: 

Here’s the book:

It appears that the Force is strong with ‘Family Guy’.

The animation will kick off it’s 2008 Fall season with a retelling of the Star Wars saga in an hour long episode using the Family Guy characters.

Lucasfilm has given Fox the thumbs up for the episode which will be a reenactment of “Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope“.

Here’s how the characters will line up as the cast:

• Peter will play Han Solo (the lucky devil)
• Lois (the mom) is Princess Leia
• Baby Stewie is Darth Vader (who didn’t see that coming?)
• Brian the dog is Chewbacca
• Chris the son is Luke
• Cleveland and Quagmire are R2-D2 & C3-P0
• Old guy Herbert is Obi-Wan

Link to Variety with more details, no word on the role to be played by the daughter ‘Meg’.

Google is implementing a fairly radical change to its search results by implementing a Universal Search mode of operation that mixes in listings from its images, video, local, news, and book search engines.

The new feature was the brainchild of Marissa Mayer and to demonstrate we have her 3 favorite universal searches as well as a video presentation by Marissa below. The video is worth it just for some of the anecdotes but after 30 minutes you’ve seen all the good stuff.
Here are a few of her favorite searches that show off the power of universal search:

• steve jobs
• darth vader
• nosferatu

When you spend a lot of time throughout the day typing like me, it isn’t just about speed or WPM (words per minute), it’s also about accuracy.

To assess your speed and accuracy to get your Gross WPM and Net WPM (with accuracy factored in) try out TypingTest.com.

They also have a web based game that helps you practice your typing: Bubbles.

Longhorn Reloaded is a project run by enthusiasts (not Microsoft) dedicated to the revival of the original operating system known as code name “Longhorn”. Their goal is to finish what Microsoft started before the operating system was reset back to the Win2k3 codebase and eventually became ‘Vista’ but not quite their

These guys/gals have started with Windows 6.0.4074, which was originally released during the 2004 Windows Hardware Engineers Conference. They appear to have formed a loose group of Developers and Testers and are cherry picking features to

If you’re interested in participating in the revival project please let us know how it goes. The main site and the forums list d/l locations for the ISO while the wiki is tracking known issues and recommended drivers.

Link to LH Reloaded main

Link to the discussion forum

Link to their wiki

via OSNews