Timeline: the life of the blog
1967: The Internet is invented. Most people don't begin to take notice until 25 years later.
1979: The birth of USENET, a decentralized system of discussion boards, forming the basis of some of the Internet's oldest online communities.
December 1997: Jorn Barger starts a daily log of interesting Web links published in reverse chronological order, calling it Robot Wisdom WebLog. The term "Weblog" is soon generalized by other online publishers to include any page with frequent short posts in reverse chronological order.
Spring 1999: Online journal author Peter Merholz takes Jorn Barger's word "weblog" and splits it into the phrase "We blog." Blog soon becomes shorthand for weblog.
See much more at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17421022

Hypertext is text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence. Apart from running text, hypertext may contain tables, images and other presentational devices. Hypertext is the underlying concept defining the structure of the World Wide Web, making it an easy-to-use and flexible format to share information over the Internet. The prefix hyper- (comes from the Greek prefix "υπερ-" and means "over" or "beyond") signifies the overcoming of the old linear constraints of written text. The term "hypertext" is often used where the term "hypermedia" might seem appropriate. In 1992, author Ted Nelson – who coined both terms in 1965 – wrote: By now the word "hypertext" has become generally accepted for branching and responding text, but the corresponding word "hypermedia", meaning complexes of branching and responding graphics, movies and sound – as well as text – is much less used. Instead they use the strange term "interactive multimedia": this is four syllables longer,
and does not express the idea of extending hypertext. — Nelson, Literary Machines, 1992
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext

The Urban Forest Project is a series of unprecedented outdoor exhibitions taking root in cities around the world. This unique environmental, public arts and educational initiative calls on artists, designers and students in each location to employ the idea or form of the tree to make a powerful visual statement on banners that are displayed throughout the community. The tree is a metaphor for sustainability and, in that spirit the banners at the close of each exhibition are recycled into totebags and auctioned off to raise money for a local environmental and urban forestry initiatives. The program can easily be adapted to address a number of green, educational and creative initiatives in a variety of ways to shape a project that is unique and expressive of the local community. The project – an initiative of Worldstudio – was originally executed in New York’s Times Square in the fall of 2006. See links to projects, including Toledo (banners on display until September 6, 2010), at: http://ufp-global.com/

New names
Bobby Jindal: Piyush Jindal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Amar and Raj Jindal, who came to the United States as immigrants from India.
House of Windsor: created by George V from the British branch of the German House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Madonna: born Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone
Lady Gaga: born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta

The Week magazine April 30, 2010 contest:
After G.E. made a $10.8 billion profit but managed not to pay a single cent in U.S. income taxes, it seemed time to give them a new slogan. Winners:
FIRST PRIZE: We Bring Good Things To Us!
SECOND PLACE: Imagination at Work (In Our Accounting Department)
THIRD PLACE: Illumination Without Taxation See honorable mentions at: http://theweek.com/article/index/202476/The_Week_contest_GE__Apr_30_2010

Pentecost Island, which gets its name from the day on which it was first sighted by Europeans, is a mountainous, tropical island in the South Pacific republic of Vanuatu. There are no towns on Pentecost - most of the islanders live in small villages and grow their own food in small gardens. Parts of Pentecost remain relatively untouched by Western influences, and local traditions are strong. The island is the home of the nanggol (land diving) - the original bungee jump - which is known throughout the world. http://www.pentecostisland.net/