GLEE Season 1

The latest TV show that's sweeping the nation has sadly come to a season's end, well until April that is. The plot: a high-school Spanish teacher becomes the director of the school's Glee club, hoping to restore it to its former glory. Genre: comedy, drama, and musical. Award: 2009 Artios Outstanding Achievement in Casting - Television Plot - Comedy. One dramatic plot deals with Cory Monteith (Finn Hudson), Dianna Agron (Quinn Fabray), and Mark Salling (Noah "Puck" Puckerman) are in a not-so-secret love-triangle. Finn and Quinn are couples and Puck is Finn's best friend; Quinn becomes pregnant and initially tells Finn it's his, but it actually belongs to Puck. But Glee isn't all about drama, Glee is amazing because of all the numbers they do throughout the season. Such as Don't Stop Believing - Journey, My Life Would Suck Without You - Kelly Clarkson, Gold Digger - Kanye West, mashups such as It's My Life/Confessions & Halo/Walking On Sunshine, and much MUCH more! I don't want to spoil EVERYTHING! So please, if you've never seen Glee before, I hope reading this blog will at least caused some curiosity to watch the show. Season 2 starting in April 2010!

File Sharing.. Out Of Hand?

On December 7, 2009. Joel Tenenbaum (a Boston University doctoral student) was fined $657,000.00 for illegally sharing 30 copyrighted songs. Joel Tenenbaum could not pay the fine so he was forced to declare bankruptcy. Although, the law in Canada is unclear and that ISPs cannot divulge IP addresses to third parties (e.g. music industry), but anytime of the day, that law could change and every file sharer within Canada will be in hot water!
Click the following link to read the article: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141914/Update_Judge_affirms_675k_verdict_in_RIAA_music_piracy_case
Now, if 30 copyrighted songs was fined for $657,000.00, imagine all the songs that YOU downloaded/shared illegally. I'm pretty certain that it's above 30. Now imagine the fine you may get. I don't know about you, but these fines are extremely out of hand. $657,000.00 for only 30 songs? That's crazy! Please share your comment!

Twitter!

If you've been living under a rock, Twitter has overtaken the world by storm! If you're familiar with Facebook, Twitter is just like Facebook's status updates. Twitter can be used for either professional use or personal use. Although if you use it for personal use, there have been cases where people have been fired because of the use of Twitter. For example, YouTube Star TimothyDelaGhetto has been fired from California Pizza Kitchen because of Twitter. Although people who use it professionally, like our ICT teacher Mr. Vogel (click link here)
he has followers from England and Australia all interested in Physics. He also recommended Twitter to our past principal: Mr. Cooke. He has now an occupation with wolfram alpha. Join Twitter now!

FUN NEW WEBSITES!!!!!

There's new web 2.0 websites that we found: (click the links to see for yourself)
iNudge
Sumo Paint 2.0

iNudge is crazy fun because you can create your own music with different styles of instruments. Such as: ToneMatrix, Harp, Organ, Saturn, Frogster, Avatar, Rhode Bass, and Drums. iNudge was created by Germany (don't worry, they're awesome!). iNudge will make others go crazy because of all the different sounds blending together to make a song... BUT! YOU will become hypnotized by the different ways you can create your own music!

Sumo Paint 2.0 is amazing! To me, it's like a blend of Adobe Photoshop and Paint... but EXTREMELY better. There's a symmetry tool where no matter where you drag your mouse, across the page there will be a symmetrical outcome and you can create mind-boggling shapes (Pacman)

I highly recommend on visiting these websites!