• Robin Williams – The Face of Inner Pain

    It seems nearly impossible to fathom that someone as brilliant and funny as Robin Williams could be so tortured emotionally that he takes himself out of the human race. Yet, last week, one by one, each of us across the whole globe, fixed our attention on the sad news of this beloved actor’s suicide. Sometimes, a blip of news in the vast sea of information we are bombarded with daily, seems to slap us so hard in the face that we can almost hear the collective groan rippling through space and time. Then we all try our best to reckon with reality. And what a devastating reality Robin Williams’ death reveals - that someone who, by his very nature, brought

    Aug 26,
    - by Toni Becker

  • IBM Builds worlds fastest supercomputer

    IBM Corp. plans to announce today that it has built the world's fastest supercomputer at one of its facilities in Rochester, Minn., wresting the title from a system in Japan. Click Here for Yahoo Article Click Here for USA Today Article

    Sep 29,
    - by semoadmin

  • Most everyone has either seen or heard about the 1998 Summer blockbuster, Armageddon. Could it actually be possible for an asteroid that large to hit the Earth and destroy all life as we know it? Believe it or not, we are currently dodging (by a million miles or so) a rock (2.9 miles long and 1.5 miles wide) that, if impacted with Earth, could cause global devastation. Click here to read the story.

    Sep 28,
    - by semoadmin

  • Ideas Can Happen

    Ever have an idea that you thought could change the world...or at least the world around you? Was cash flow a main hinderance that kept the idea from happening? Ideas Happen is a program that is offering $25,000 to people with the best ideas, to help them reach their goal. There are three catagories to pitch your idea in. You have until October 20, 2004, to do this. Go to Ideas Happen and pitch your idea. Log on, present your idea, and you could be the next winner of $25,000 to help you achieve what you think could change your world.

    Sep 28,
    - by semoadmin

  • Selective Service Email Hoax

    Recently an email has been rapidly making the rounds that states that the Bush Administration is reinstating the draft in 2005. This has been confirmed as an urban legend, which is loosely based on current pending legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, but is expected to fail by a very wide margin, according to many experts within the military and U.S. government. Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, the senior Democrat on the Senate Armed Services personnel subcommittee [...]: "There is very little support in Congress for reinstating the draft." "It ain't going to happen," said Lawrence Korb, a former assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration who is now with the Center for American Progress, a

    Sep 22,
    - by semoadmin

  • The FBI visits Poplar Bluff

    Semo.net recently hosted a FBI lecture in Poplar Bluff about current Internet based security threats that business face today. Along with area businesses the DAR was there to report, check out what they have to say here.

    Sep 13,
    - by semoadmin
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