Hidama's blog

Ready or not, here it comes: The Holiday Season is upon us.  But as we  enjoy and bask in the bright lights, beautiful store fronts, and general cheer,  one might ask "but is this competition, or goodwill towards men?"

Now that Halloween has passed, store fronts (online and in real life) are rapidly chaning from trick or treat candy and halloween costumes to delicious bons-bons with red bows and reccomended gift ideas. Busy mothers are trying to get a head of the end-fo-the-year rush, making lists and eyeing possible presents while doing their normal shopping, while toy and video game companies are advertising their latest stock to be purchased during the holiday season. And the closer we get to our forgotten holiday of relaxation and company of friends, (Thanksgiving, for those who've forgotten), it will only exponentially get bigger, wilder, and more elaborate.

I find that more and more college students are at a complete loss for their dreams of a future job.  When I ask what most of my peers want as a career, the response usually is "I don't know... something in business, I guess."

Many students who have recently graduated from an undergraduate study was the generation of students where "a business major could get you anywhere," and this sentiment has passed on to the next set of undergraduate students as well. But now, with everyone getting a business major, what can set apart all these fresh graduated students?

The article from the independent New York newspaper, Indypendent, discusses the issues of electronic voting from Nov 2000 in Florida to current problems in 2006.

"The 2000 presidential election, in which the wide-scale suppression of the votes of African- Americans in Florida is drowned out by images of hanging chads and butterfly ballots, is awarded to George W. Bush by a divided Supreme Court."

A new threat lurks at our public education, and it's not in the classroom:  that's right, it's outside on the playground.  Nope, it's not bullies -- it's a game of tag.


ATTLEBORO, Massachusetts (AP) -- Tag, you're out!

Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable.

Inside generation Y has imerged a new generation, a generation that assumes life is wireless, accessible, and impersonal: the iGeneration.

The iGeneration (no doubt taken from the popularity of the Internet, and more recently the iproducts from the growing, popular, Apple Inc. The iGeneration is roughly from 1986-1999, resting in the center of the Y generation (1977-2003).  The iGeneration is also nicknamed the myspace generation, the multi-tasking generation, and the ipod generation.

Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years' time as predicted by HG Wells, an expert has said.

"Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge.

The human race would peak in the year 3000, he said - before a decline due to dependence on technology. People would become choosier about their sexual partners, causing humanity to divide into sub-species, he added.

The beauty product line Dove is starting the "Campaign for Real Beauty",  and has started the Dove  Self-Esteem Fund.
The descritpion says "Too many girls develop low self-esteem from hang-ups about looks and, consequently, fail to reach their full potential in later life.
So, we've created the Dove Self-Esteem Fund as an agent of change to educate and inspire girls on a wider definition of beauty."

More than 10,000 Alaskan lakes have dried up or shrunk in size in a span of 52 years, scientists reported today.