Holiday Gift Idea – Be a Blood Donor this Christmas Season

Still searching for that perfect gift?  Roll up your sleeve. You’ve had it in you all along.
Giving blood is a really simple act that will save lives.   To help out, just click on this link to the American Red Cross Website, enter your zip code, and make an appointment for a time and location that [...]

Ice Skating Info for Bay Area Ice Skaters

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and for most people, it marks the official start of the 2008 Holiday Season.  One really great family activity for getting into the Holiday Mood is to check out your local Ice Skating Rink — links to times and locations are listed below.
My girls jumped the gun a bit and this month [...]

Dear Santa, All I want for Christmas is my Blackberry. Yours Truly, Barrack

The SF Chronicle reports today that renowned Crackberry addict President-elect Obama may have to give up his Blackberry after he is sworn into office.
The article was a little sketchy on details regarding why the Chief Executive of the world’s only superpower is prevented from using tools that are commonly available to middle-schoolers.  It mentioned only [...]

Lawrence Livermore Lab and NASA Astronomers photograph Planets from another Solar System

In two separate studies, astronomers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and NASA have published the first photographs ever of not just one, but FOUR planets from outside our solar system in the journal Science Express.  Don’t pack your bags just yet.  None of the planets is even remotely habitable.
The Team from Livermore accomplished [...]