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You know I couldn't understand the girl with French accent in The Davinci Code (I hope Stewart doesn't read this, or he'll have something to say) ;) Good thing I read the book beforehand, otherwise I would've been totally lost.

As another U.S. citizen, I don't think drilling Alaskan Oil Reserves or other offshore drilling is a good idea. I think it's better to tax more accordingly on the cars that we drive. I'm sure there will be loopholes as any other legislation, but, at least it may lower the number of outrageous...

What region do you live in?

Having Sparky quoted Sun Tzu, and reading how Revised had removed many of her books, reminds me of what Lao Tzu had said in The Tao of Power: USING WHAT IS NOT Thirty spokes converge at one hub; What is not there makes the wheel useful. Clay is shaped to for a vessel; What is not...

I think the above poll also reflects: How old are the current Internet Junkies.

Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell Brings out how most of us are conditioned socially to discriminate (in a good way or bad) others by relating our senses, including words, to another, forming an idea before...

I broke the tie to Stewart! 4:1:5

Does it matter to the server if I kept open the polls for 999 days? Or is it just an extra function?

I got 11. 3 of them I heard from my kids :P

Um... So, how is Focault's Pendulum? I thought the Name of the Rose was interesting. ;)

Take the quiz here: Quiz: The Trick Question Quiz Have fun. :)

How about Les Miserables? It was a sad story, especially Cosette's mother.

City of Ember - Film Adaptation this Fall City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau is going to be turned into a movie and it's coming out this Fall. I also read the 2nd story, The People of Sparks. Both are very well written for children. The 3rd book was rather uninteresting and did not find out...

I read beginning of the Great Gatsby, and the ending, but not the middle. I was reading it for an English class. And I hated reading Old Man and the Sea in H.S. Then I re-read it about a year ago. It was beautiful with serenity of vast sea surrounding you under the sizzling sun...

Not a problem. I'm laughing my head off as I'm reading this. And learning about dongles. Edutainment.

I cleaned out my garage! Lots of fun. At night, we went to a local park on a hill and watched fireworks.

Hey, I am getting really great responses. Thank you. I hope to find more. Yes, I recently re-read The Good Earth. It does show how opium flowed freely to the rich. In looking back, possibly due to the Opium Wars (Found out how Hong Kong came under British control by reading about the...

Hey, who put that there? Thanks, to both. :)

I'm sorry, I tried, but could not figure out. And I didn't want to do trial and error and get everyone confused. :D

There are many novels and non-fictions regards the times of Holocaust in Europe, but, I have not found a book from the East where China, Korea, Philipines, and other Asian countries being overtaken by the Imperial Japanese. Or have they not been translated into English yet? Any suggestions...