Ken Burns - The National Parks

CBS News National Correspondent Jim Axelrod interviewed Ken Burns on CBS Sunday Morning and gave a sneak peak at the new PBS special called The National Parks, a 12-hour, 6-part documentary series that airs on PBS beginning next weekend, Sunday, September 27, 2009.

In the film, Burns calls the idea of the national parks "an idea that was as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical."

"For the first time in human history, land was set aside, not for kings and noblemen, not for the rich, but for everybody in all time," Burns told Axelrod.



Watch a sneak preview on Amazon.

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a cell phone your Dad or Mom can use

I hear the same complaints about Cell Phones from the older generation...

• The buttons are too small and confusing
• Too many damn features
• Can't figure out how to make it work

Multi-function keys, touch screens, cameras, mp3 players? Forget it!

Take a look at the iNo CP09 from Foresight Technologies. Totally designed with the elderly in mind: buttons you can hit with a thumb, beefy fonts and a loud ringer, too loud maybe? The big monochrome fonts are easy to see and not very distracting.

Just in time for Father's Day.

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Metric Teen Tours group on Facebook

There's a Facebook group for alumni of Metric Teen Tours.

While doing some digging through old boxes I found an album from my 1979 trip across the western United States and uploaded a few shots to the group.

If you found this blog entry while searching for the Metric Teen Tour of Scarsdale, NY, jump over to the Facebook group for messages and photos

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67057455008

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MP3 music on sale - lots under $5

Not bad! 50 MP3 Albums, just $5 Each.



What great finds did you grab for five bucks?

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Join this group if you grew up in North Miami Beach in the 1970s

A friend's Facebook status update gave me the idea to start a new Facebook group, "Growing up in North Miami Beach in the 1970s," with a focus on places and events that occurred in NMB in the 70s. There are many groups for other cities and times.  I'll try to keep the group on topic. 

Thousands of "kids" from NMB in the 1970s have shared their memories from restaurants, record shops, various pizza shops, delis, schools, sports, Haulover, and Greynold's parks.

Dozens of names I haven't heard in decades suddenly streamed across my computer.

Do You Remember any of these places... 

• Greynolds Park
• Skylake Mall
• Sandy's Drugs
• People's Gas on West Dixie Highway
• 163rd Street Shopping Center
• Record Shack, Record Land, Blue Note, Vibrations, Peaches
• Victory Park and Uleta Pools
• Figaro's, My Pi, Steve's on 164th Street

If you grew up in North Miami Beach the 1970s or are curious about "the way it was", join the Growing up in North Miami Beach in the 1970s Facebook group. Don't forget to answer the membership questions. If we knew each other in NMB, add me as a friend (send me a message and let me know you're adding me just in case I can't remember an old friend from the 70s).

  

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