Twelve Hours- yes, indeed. Aren't you just a little curious to see who and what I posted? Skip the article. Click that link it's right over there,

Google Mulls Buying Yahoo [REPORT]

As I begin to compose, and review my resolutions for this past year and the next, I saw this.

**originally an anonymous excerpt from a post featured on Slashdot

"From Ed Yong at the Not Exactly Rocket Science blog: 'Just as petrified fossils tell us about the evolution of life on earth, the words written in books narrate the history of humanity. The words tell a story, not just through the sentences they form, but in how often they occur. Uncovering those tales isn't easy — you'd need to convert books into a digital format so that their text can be analyzed and compared. And you'd need to do that for millions of books. Fortunately, that's exactly what Google have been doing since 2004.' Yong goes on to explain that the astounding record of human culture found in Google Books offers new research paths to social scientists, linguists, and humanities scholars. Some of the early findings (abstract), based on an analysis of 5 million books containing 500 billion words: English is still adding words at a breathtaking pace; grammar is evolving and often becoming more regular; we're forgetting our history more quickly; and celebrities are younger than they used to be. You can also play with the Google Books search tool yourself. For example, here's a neat comparison of how often the words Britannica and Wikipedia have appeared."

So here are some links that have something to do with this project that i've been putting off (aka my-so-called life)

Yes- I'm back from Detroit. Have been for a few days now. my grandfather is doing great. I want to thank all of you on the various social networks, for not blowing up my blackberry with tweets, updates and comments. And even though i haven't seen many of you in like 20+ years,  ya'll were very respectful of my time with family. I SHALL RETURN! I'd rather schedule another trip than deal with "reunion-esque" logistics.

The rest of this post may appear haphazard and random. What started out as an analysis report on the velocity of media consumption has evolved. Actually, evolved isn't the right word. Let's just say that the time has come for me to benchmark my artistic and professional talents and abilities.  In other words:
"What I don't know I can learn, what I do know- nobody can teach".

Everything below the break is reposted/copied/pasted here for my convenience.  Please feel free to comment, suggest or make recommendations (and yes I am aware of the fact that i really haven't given you much to go on, but i don't want to get ahead of myself.   Maybe I'll make this into a game? You know-provide clues, and toolkit with supplies. Make a soundtrack, provide concessions and award prizes?  I've got a conference call now.

But that's not all..