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This is a Wikipedia article that tell us that there is no longest sentence. It gives some very good examples of how sentences can go on infinitely and still be grammatically correct. This article also gives some examples at the bottom and some of these sentences stretch out to millions of words. In conclusion to posting this article i would like to say that you should not make your sentences that long. Short and precise will keep your readers interested and Hemingway said.

As far as literature review sites go SparkNotes is one of the best. When placed in the hands of the lazy, this website, and the convenience it brings, can lead to a quick and painful academic downfall. However, if used merely as a study resource SparkNotes can substantially increase a students grades. For example, You've just finished reading The Lord of the Flies and you've been assigned an essay on symbolism due next class. You don't particularly remember any symbols from your reading, so you check spark notes which gives you a few examples and leads you in the right direction. Add a little of your own synthesis and some specific incidents that support your statements and your essay will be done before you know it! This also works with hard to follow Shakespearean plots and deep character development. Along with being able to help you learn, SparkNotes can also help you study and remember old books that you've read just in time for your final. Or it can help you study for your SATs. In fact, SparkNotes has a lot of sections designed to help high School and College students succeed. SparkNotes is a great tool as long as you remember to do the real work yourself!

"This does awesome ****" a quote professor Barlow. Point Grey has just setup an incredible demo of its latest technology. It is a new webcam using the new USB 3.0 technology. It shoots and yields an uncompressed video in FULL 1080p at 60fps! I am not going to lie, this is awesome! Just picture watching on a high definition television : a long distance pen pal, your husband or wife that is constantly traveling, or your mother and father from college with HD technology and no latency. "It's pretty stunning" says gizmodo.com. The camera uses technology from the newest Sony camera that has recently been able to shoot not only very high resolution pictures, but also HD videos. Now this is just a prototype but it has set a market release date of very late 2009 or early 2010. Now since it is using USB 3.0 technology it will be able to display and stream the high definition of video (depending on if the user has a decent internet connection). The camera prototype currently lacks an autofocus but has a manual focus to let it capture nice clear images. The only downfall is the lack of users that do not use the rare PCI-Express-to-USB-3.0 card. I personally cannot wait for this to come out. Depending on the price, I will keep this in mind. This could be a neat thing to play around with, or easy to troubleshoot computer problems without the need to leave my favorite chair. \n

I came across this article this afternoon, and found it one to be one of the most interesting articles I have read in a long time. That could be a good thing or a bad thing, but I think it is a good thing. The U.S. Senate met and had a hearing Monday discussing the potential hazard of cell phones towards humans. Cell phones are a possible cause of brain cancer. A study completed by researchers in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the UK found that people who used cell phones for more than 10 years were at a higher risk of developing glioma, a usually malignant brain tumor, on the side of the head they had favored for cellphone conversations. According to the study, the Samsung Impression offered by AT&T is the safest cellphone on the market, while the worst is the Motorola MOTO VU204 offered by Verizon Wireless. This article is scary to think about. The article informs us that we should text message instead of calling. Supposedly, text messaging is less harmful to us. When signals are low, try to avoid using your cell phone to make a phone call because your cell phone transmits more radiation then. One day, could our culture move away from cell phones all together?

Boeing has successfully tested their new Matrix laser over airborne targets, which is a world's first. In total, they shot down five drones at various ranges. That's a lot of pew pew in a day. This could be proven a high need necessity when either the world ends in 2012, or for some reason a collision with a outer space object will have a collision course with the world. I do have many questions about how if this will be used in the battle field. I also wonder how long it will be till this can be shrunk to a smaller size and start production into drones themselves. I give it 3 years, till this makes headline news on how something went wrong, cough cough, LRC, then we can see much more from Boeing and many more companies.

This site gives some great examples of how images can convey messages, and even arguments. this correlates with the image rhetoric reading we did from the owl web site. reading through i found it interesting how much i realized i am influenced through images on a daily basis. This site altered my perceptions of advertisements and propaganda. I see now that the two are more related than they are different.

For us, being CIT majors, the blue screen of death been a common mishap. Late night papers due first class period, or printing out that lab report the morning of its due date. " IT SUCKS! "A PROBLEM HAS BEEN DETECTED." What the hell just happened?" There are millions of ways that this problem can show its ugly face. It ranges from hardware to software. It is even our operating systems. So what causes this problem? When it comes to the application side of this terror it is due to programs using more memory then what should be allowed. So who is to blame? Those pesky programmers! Next we come to system crashes. Yes those are the ones that you run to mommy and dad for repair money. " There's a few reasons for that. A major reason", says Maximum PC Editor Maximus Will Smith, "is that Apple and Microsoft have spent a lot of time moving stuff that used to run at really low level, deep in the guts of the OS, up a few layers into the user space, so an application error that would've crashed a whole system by borking something at the kernel level just results in an annoying program-level hang up." What that means is, instead of crashing your whole computer, most application have a self destruct button which tells them application to shut down before your whole computer goes south. The easiest fix for this is to keep drivers up to date. So why are computers crashing less now? Well Apple and Microsoft have been embedding many brutally annoying "send error report" emails within many programs. This has led to many advancements and preventable maintenance on their part. With the new Windows 7, it has many programs to "feel" a problem about to happen, and limit that problem from happening. Yet, there will always be forces of nature causing hard drive problems, and the lazy operator ability to prevent dust from entering the system. So for as long as we wish to make advancement in hardware, programmers will always be there to embed program errors for us